After four months, hundreds of leaked gameplay videos, and everybody you know having played it, Valve finally admitted Deadlock exists

Ever since the first leaks about Deadlock came out in May, Valve's next game has been in a bit of a weird limbo: It has hundreds of gameplay videos in the wild, a public subreddit, and a peak player count of over 44,000 thanks to invites getting passed out like candy⁠—including to Steam tracking website, SteamDB. But the studio itself refused to acknowledge the game's existence until today. Deadlock has a Steam store page, and we're finally allowed to talk about it and share clips, as if that stopped anyone before.