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Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”

Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”

Gabe Newell denied meeting Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple in a recent podcast with Seven Day Cooldown, but that's not all he said. He also mentioned that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play, but with a twist.... Read More

Tim Cook didn’t visit Valve after all

Tim Cook didn’t visit Valve after all

Earlier we had reported that Tim Cook, the Apple CEO had visited Valve to lay out plans for world domination, and other stuff. That's untrue and has been denied by Gabe Newell himself on Seven Da... Read More

Strategy First announces that Deep Black Reloaded Is Available On Steam

Strategy First announces that Deep Black Reloaded Is Available On Steam

[HTML1] Featuring over 20 Steam Achievements and Razer Hydra Full Motion Control in Real 3D. April.18, 2012 to April.25, 2012 receive a 20% discount off the $29.99 price. “We are excited abou... Read More

6.5 million bullets in a Counter Strike map visualized

6.5 million bullets in a Counter Strike map visualized

What you see below is a heat map. So what is it exactly? In this case, Valve has created this to study the data obtained from Counter Strike: Global Offensive beta. There have been 6.5 million bull... Read More

Valve is working on Wearable Computing

Valve is working on Wearable Computing

Valve is working on wearable computing, Michael Abrash wrote in a blog post. He is in charge of R&D products at Valve and wants more people to join Valve to support the project. "By ‘wearable... Read More

Valve hiring to produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware

Valve hiring to produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware

Okay, so Valve has begun hiring a bunch of people, and the thing that caught our eye was that they wanted an electronics engineer to join their R&D team. They specifically mention in the recru... Read More

Anna’s First New Screens Are Damn Awesome

Anna’s First New Screens Are Damn Awesome

Check out these new screenshots from Anna. [gallery link="file"]Read More

Update incoming for Payday: The Hiest

Update incoming for Payday: The Hiest

Sony and Overkill have announced that they will be releasing a new game update for their title, Payday: The Heist. Key features of this game update include: Masks of Disguise: Feeling statel... Read More

The Price is Right: Why Competition and Second Hand Sales Are Necessary

The Price is Right: Why Competition and Second Hand Sales Are Necessary

If you're reading this, the likelihood is that you play games. Whether you appreciate gaming as nothing more than a hobby or wax lyrical about the artistic achievements of your favourite franchise, it... Read More

Piranha Bytes on Risen 2- “We drew inspiration from classics like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean”

Piranha Bytes on Risen 2- “We drew inspiration from classics like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean”

Björn Pankratz, Project Director at Piranha Bytes says that Risen 2's pirate setting drew plenty of inspiration from "classics" like Monkey Island, Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean. "N... Read More

Worms creator Andy Davidson Returns To Team 17

Worms creator Andy Davidson Returns To Team 17

The original Worms creator, Andy Davidson has returned to Team 17. “I left Team17 feeling I hadn’t finished what I wanted to achieve, but for professional reasons I knew I had to walk away�... Read More

Anna Is One Horror Game That You Should Keep Your Eye On

Anna Is One Horror Game That You Should Keep Your Eye On

Ever played Amnesia: The Dark Descent? Enjoyed it? Got scared? We certainly did. We came across a game which will make any Amnesia jump with joy (or fear!). The game we are talking about is Anna, de... Read More

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