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Valve announces upgrades to the Steam Community

Valve announces upgrades to the Steam Community

Valve has announced major upgrades to the Steam community with a complete overhaul of game and community tabs. This news came as a suprise because most people were expecting them to reveal Half-Li... Read More

Half-Life 3 spotted on GamesCom 2012 product list

Half-Life 3 spotted on GamesCom 2012 product list

Update: It's fake arghhh. Apparently it's just an expected announcements list. This time it seems pretty real folks, as T3 have spotted a Half-Life 3 listing on GamesCom product list. The list sh... Read More

Team Fortress 2: Mann vs Machine co-op mode added to the game

Team Fortress 2: Mann vs Machine co-op mode added to the game

What does it feel to fight against a common enemy? Team Fortress 2 players finally get the opportunity to do this as Valve has added a co-op mode to the game called Mann vs Machine. It pits you agai... Read More

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Officially Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Officially Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam

Call of Duty not satisfying that craving for tactical warfare? Deathmatch becoming outdated? Battlefield 3 just not up to snuff? For those who swear by Valve's Counter-Strike franchise, especially m... Read More

Steam expands beyond games; first set of software titles coming Sep 5

Steam expands beyond games; first set of software titles coming Sep 5

Valve's digital distribution store Steam will officially expand beyond PC gaming and diversify its portfolio, Valve has revealed. Earlier, there were a set of new categories like Accounting, Educat... Read More

Source 2 References Found in Source Filmmaker, in Development by Valve?

Source 2 References Found in Source Filmmaker, in Development by Valve?

Recent findings have indicated that Valve hasn't been idly sitting on it's hunches all this time while fans complain about a lack of Half-Life related material. According to these findings, Valve... Read More

Valve updates Steam Subscriber Agreement, adds no sue clause

Valve updates Steam Subscriber Agreement, adds no sue clause

So now you cannot sue Valve, Sony or EA if they mess up and you somehow fall in deep trouble. Of course, you are given an option to not accept the agreement, but who can do that when Steam is such a... Read More

Gabe Newell: “Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space”

Gabe Newell: “Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space”

You can count on Gabe Newell to say some bold things and he has done that once again by calling Windows 8 "a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space". He didn't give any reasons as to why he dislik... Read More

Viktor Antonov explains why he left Valve

Viktor Antonov explains why he left Valve

Viktor Antonov was art director on Half Life 2, the main brain behind the look, feel and smell of City 17, yet left Valve prior to the release of Team Fortress 2. To most, Valve is seen as being the p... Read More

Valve doesn’t want platform exclusives

Valve doesn’t want platform exclusives

If you're thinking that Half-Life 3 will be exclusive to Steam, don't fret. Valve doesn't believe in platform exclusives. They have said that it's just not worth losing too much money to push an ag... Read More

Valve: Steam promotions do not cannibalize sales, we think of them as features

Valve: Steam promotions do not cannibalize sales, we think of them as features

Valve’s director of business management, Jason Holtman, has revealed that Steam sales does not cannibilize sales in any way, and also likened them to customer features. "Actually, all the data is... Read More

Source Filmmaker now in Open Beta

Source Filmmaker now in Open Beta

Source Filmmaker, a tool used to create movies, is now free for everyone to download provided you have Steam and has entered open beta, Valve has announced. "The SFM is a storytelling tool Valve ... Read More

Clint Hocking looks to be joining Valve

Clint Hocking looks to be joining Valve

After departing from LucasArts last month with a view of moving 'on to something new', it looks like that something might just be a move to Seattle to become part of the Valve family. Whilst not ye... Read More

Valve: No short-term plans to add game-streaming to Steam

Valve: No short-term plans to add game-streaming to Steam

Valve has revealed that it has no short-term plans to add game-streaming to Steam. Jason Holtman, Valve business development director revealed this at an industry conference Develop. "Though "tho... Read More

Valve fight EA claim that Steam sales ‘cheapen intellectual property’

Valve fight EA claim that Steam sales ‘cheapen intellectual property’

Valve has fought back, after EA made a misguided attempt at accusing Steam sales of 'cheapening intellectual property', by stating that the exact opposite. EA's David DeMartini, Senior Vice President... Read More

Steam Greenlight announced by Valve

Steam Greenlight announced by Valve

Today Valve have announced a new community platform feature, enlisting their help in picking and choosing future releases on Steam. The premise is that Steam Greenlight will allow developers and pu... Read More

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

Left 4 Dead running on the PS Vita looks incredible

Left 4 Dead running on the PS Vita looks incredible

The PS Vita was always a really promising device and remote play function was one of the most interesting features that Sony never got it right till now. However, that could change with the PlaySta... Read More

Source Filmmaker lets you create animated TF2 clips

Source Filmmaker lets you create animated TF2 clips

Valve has announced a new program called Source Filmmaker, which allows people to create their own Team Fortress 2 clips with the same visuals Valve does. In the video they released they mentioned th... Read More

Meet the Pyro video is pretty creepy

Meet the Pyro video is pretty creepy

Valve has finally unleashed the Pyro, in a new video titled "Meet the Pyro". They have been teasing this for a long time, and we finally have the video which looks really creepy. You will know why, so... Read More