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Steam Summer Sale confirmed by Valve employee

Steam Summer Sale confirmed by Valve employee

Today a Valve employee confirmed that the Steam Summer Sale will happen after all, following concerns that all was lost and Gabe had gone feral. Writing on a thread on the Steam forum, Valve Engine... Read More

New DLC and Steam Discount for Wargames: European Escalation

New DLC and Steam Discount for Wargames: European Escalation

Wargames: European Escalation was developed for PC by Eugen Systems and released earlier this year. As a real-time strategy game set in Europe during the Cold War, the game garnered a surprising amo... Read More

EU Court Casts Judgment in Favour of Reselling: It’s Super Effective!

EU Court Casts Judgment in Favour of Reselling: It’s Super Effective!

Recently the European Union's Court of Justice ruled that gamers are within full rights to resell their games. What's more, publishers can't do anything about it, and that applies to games downlo... Read More

Square-Enix and iam8bit Partner for Quantum Conundrum-Inspired Game Show

Square-Enix and iam8bit Partner for Quantum Conundrum-Inspired Game Show

iam8bit has always put it's best foot forward when showcasing the artistic side of gaming. Anyone who's visited it's art exhibitions can attest to that, but the company is known for far more. Case i... Read More

Steam Charts: Day Z sees Arma 2 hit the top

Steam Charts: Day Z sees Arma 2 hit the top

Valve has announced Steam’s top ten selling titles for the week beginning 24 June. DayZ shows no signs of slowing, with ArmA II taking the top spot for the second time in three weeks, a regular f... Read More

EA: Steam took eight years to get where it is, we’re going to get there faster and go beyond

EA: Steam took eight years to get where it is, we’re going to get there faster and go beyond

EA wants Origin to become the primary competitor to Steam and they have mentioned that they will reach the top in less years than it took Valve's digital distribution service to get there. "The eas... Read More

Valve: Linux version of Steam and Source engine coming in 2013

Valve: Linux version of Steam and Source engine coming in 2013

Remember how Valve were hiring a bunch of engineers for a Linux project? It's finally come to frutition. Yes, Linux owners will be pleased to hear that Steam - Valve's digital distribution service... Read More

Counter Strike: GO Beta player limit increased to 30, spawn locations prioritized

Counter Strike: GO Beta player limit increased to 30, spawn locations prioritized

Counter Strike: Global Offensive beta has got a new patch which increases the player limit to 30, and also brings a plethora of new fixes. "One of the most requested map features has been allowing ... Read More

Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

It's amazing what a mod can to for the sales of a game, innit? Yeah, I'm talking about the Day-Z mod for Arma 2, which is a three year old game. Guess what? It has topped the Steam sales chart for the... Read More

Arcen Games: We would not have been able to stay in business without Steam

Arcen Games: We would not have been able to stay in business without Steam

Steam is a saviour for Indie developers and gives them a platform to showcase their content, and for some of them, it can be the sole reason why they stay in the business. Arcen Games, who created A... Read More

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” Sees 1.3 million Downloads, Dota 2 Championships 2012 Detailed

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” Sees 1.3 million Downloads, Dota 2 Championships 2012 Detailed

Valve have announced details for The International Dota 2 Championships 2012. The International was launched last year in Cologne, Germany during Gamescom with 16 of the most elite Dota teams co... Read More

Report: Gamestop to offer Steam vouchers

Report: Gamestop to offer Steam vouchers

PSN has it; XBL has it, so why not Steam? Yes, I am talking about vouchers so that people do not have to input their Credit Card details on the digital distribution service. Kotaku has reported tha... Read More

Valve: Portal 2 has sold 4 million units on consoles and PC

Valve: Portal 2 has sold 4 million units on consoles and PC

Valve has updated the sales figures for Portal 2 and the game has sold 4 million worldwide on the consoles and PC. The game was released last year and has been met with critical praise, and is sitt... Read More

The Walking Dead – Episode 1 PC Review

The Walking Dead – Episode 1 PC Review

The Walking Dead is a pretty popular TV series, and Telltale Games have created a video game adaptation of it, and I have to say, they succeeded pretty well. If you are looking forward for some inte... Read More

Risen 2: Dark Waters Review

Risen 2: Dark Waters Review

I had a tough time getting Risen 2 to work on Steam, and when I finally managed to do that, the game was simply unplayable and running at 10 fps. Of course, my PC is not at fault here, otherwise I wou... Read More

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will be available for PC and Mac on May 8th

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will be available for PC and Mac on May 8th

Valve has announced that Portal 2 DLC titled "Perpetual Testing Initiative" will be available for the PC and Mac on May 8th. Some footage will be shown tonight on GTTV, so stay tuned for that as wel... Read More

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