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Valve banned The Verge from its secret Deadlock playtest for leaking information on the game | The publication claims it is under no legal obligation to pull its story


Let's set the stage. For months, data miners have been dribbling information on a secret Valve project that has gone under at least three codenames – Neon...

One of Valve's beta invites went to The Verge founding member and Senior Editor Sean Hollister, who subsequently penned an exposé of the game on Monday. He also confirmed that the so-called (by fans, not Valve) "informal NDA" popup (below) disappears when hitting escape instead of "Okay" and allows the user to play without agreeing to the notice. A more likely scenario would be Valve excluding The Verge from future sneak peeks, but as Forbes points out, that's not such a big deal considering the infrequency of Valve-produced games.

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