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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron- Gameplay Trailer

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron- Gameplay Trailer

High Moon Studios and Activision have released a new video for their upcoming game, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. The video shows plenty of interesting footage, gameplay snippets included. It l... Read More

Notch: DRM efforts are just “evil companies trying to control information”

Notch: DRM efforts are just “evil companies trying to control information”

Markus 'Notch' Persson has spoken out against 'futile' DRM efforts by big companies and said that focusing on honest customer is the right way to go about it. There's no way to stop piracy or st... Read More

Garry’s Mod sells 1.4 million units

Garry’s Mod sells 1.4 million units

Garry Newman, the creator of Garry's Mod has revealed on Twitter that the mod has sold 1.4 million units. It's pretty impressive that the mod is so much popular, and the sales are well deserved. New... Read More

Hard Reset Steam owners to get upgraded extended edition

Hard Reset Steam owners to get upgraded extended edition

Flying Wild Hog, the developers of Hard Reset have said that Steam owners will get upgraded edition for free. The upgrade contains five additional campaign levels, two more survival mode levels, on... Read More

Notch: Monopoly in Digital Distribution “dangerous”, wants more competition

Notch: Monopoly in Digital Distribution “dangerous”, wants more competition

Notch loves Steam, but he doesn't want it to dominate the digital distribution area, and he has his reasons for that. He said this in an interview with Gamespy, and makes some good points. "I think... Read More

Steam Mobile app to get a lot of new features

Steam Mobile app to get a lot of new features

Valve has been pushing Steam on a lot of mobile devices lately, and it has plans to add plenty of new features to the app. They want to make it comprehensive, and allow you to access Steam conveni... Read More

Valve: Getting “ready to ship” Big Picture mode; not making any hardware soon

Valve: Getting “ready to ship” Big Picture mode; not making any hardware soon

Earlier we reported (via The Verge) that - Valve was going to make a set-top box so that you can easily connect it to your TV and enjoy the Steam library, and Big Picture mode was going to be the e... Read More

Gabe Newell is worth $1.5 billion

Gabe Newell is worth $1.5 billion

Gabe Newell who owns more than 50% of Valve is worth more than $1.5 billion, according to Forbes. Valve is worth $3 billion, so you can probably come to the conclusion yourself. Valve was founded i... Read More

Rumour: Valve building a console – “Steam Box”

Rumour: Valve building a console – “Steam Box”

The Verge is reporting that Valve will be creating a new console with Steam functionalities built in. Now, I don't know how accurate this is, but Gabe Newell did mention that they are interested in ... Read More

Origin automatically adding EA games bought from Steam

Origin automatically adding EA games bought from Steam

For those of you who think of EA as a mega evil corporation- and maybe rightly so- this might as a bit of a shock to you. According to forum posts on Day One Patch (via Joystiq), Origin users hav... Read More

Remedy: “Not certain” about open world for Alan Wake 2; Episodic structure good for “tight storytelling”

Remedy: “Not certain” about open world for Alan Wake 2; Episodic structure good for “tight storytelling”

Remedy's Oskari Hakkinen, had a lot to say about the studio's design choices in creating Alan Wake in an interview with OXM. When asked about Alan Wake 2, and what direction the studio might take fo... Read More

Digitalmindsoft praises Steam for revitalizing the PC gaming market

Digitalmindsoft praises Steam for revitalizing the PC gaming market

Digitalmindsoft who created Men of War: Assault Squad, posted an open letter to Steam, and praised it for revitalizing the PC gaming market and its ability to deliver content cheap and fast to... Read More

Skyrim Workshop gets a new beta update

Skyrim Workshop gets a new beta update

Skyrim Workshop gets a new update which adds a lot of nifty little fixes. It's a beta update, so install it only if you're sure about it. The patch is still in development. Here is the beta patch l... Read More

Alan Wake PC profitable for Remedy, makes money back in 48 hours; Steam big contributor

Alan Wake PC profitable for Remedy, makes money back in 48 hours; Steam big contributor

Remedy is very pleased with the performance of the PC version of Alan Wake. It turns out that they made back the money they invested on the PC version of Alan Wake in just 48 hours. "I wanted to ch... Read More

Gabe Newell on Half-Life 3: “Let’s have things a little more baked” before revealing it to fans

Gabe Newell on Half-Life 3: “Let’s have things a little more baked” before revealing it to fans

Gabe Newell does not like to mislead people, and when it comes to Half-Life, it has to be extremely tough for him to talk about it all the time to journalists, or fans mailing him for answer. He did... Read More

Gabe Newell grows a beard and talks about tablets

Gabe Newell grows a beard and talks about tablets

Gabe Newell is sporting a new look - he has grown a beard! And sort of resembles Santa Claus. That must be the reason behind Steam deals, surely? He also revealed in an interview with Penny Arcade t... Read More

Alan Wake now out for PC

Alan Wake now out for PC

Alan Wake, 2010's critically acclaimed Xbox 360 psychological thriller, is now out on PC, available via Steam for $29.99. The game comes with upgrades specifically for the system, including high r... Read More

All you need to know about Steam and Valve [PIC]

All you need to know about Steam and Valve [PIC]

Steam is growing from strength to strength and that's what this image below shows, really. It still has a long way to go though - in convincing people that there are better alternatives to piracy. ... Read More

Gabe Newell Updates Steam Users About Last Year Attacks

Gabe Newell Updates Steam Users About Last Year Attacks

Gabe Newell has updated information about last year's attack on Steam. Check it out below. Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users We continue our investigation of last year's intrusion with ... Read More

75% of Half-Life protesters didn’t turn up to send a message to Valve regarding Half-Life 3

75% of Half-Life protesters didn’t turn up to send a message to Valve regarding Half-Life 3

We know how many people are desperate to get a glimpse of the mysterious Half-Life 3, so much that, a bunch of Steam members started a group where 50,000 members signed up to play Half-Life 2. Uh, ... Read More