Archive For Valve Tag

Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead join forces for an in-depth collaboration

Payday: The Heist and Left 4 Dead join forces for an in-depth collaboration

Payday: The Heist developer Overkill Entertainment has announced something that most fans should be looking forward to. Yes, an in-depth collaboration with Valve. What this means is that, Payday: T... 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

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

Free Portal 2 Update ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’ Out Now

Free Portal 2 Update ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’ Out Now

Valve, people behind popular video game franchises like as Half-Life and Counter-Strike have announced the arrival of the free Portal 2 update titled Perpetual Testing Initiative. Available no... 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

Valve not announcing anything new at E3

Valve not announcing anything new at E3

[caption id="attachment_83194" align="aligncenter" width="505" caption="Mock art"][/caption] Valve boss Gabe Newell has confirmed that while the firm will be showing off the likes of Diablo III and C... Read More

Portal 2 ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’ Gets A Brand New Trailer

Portal 2 ‘Perpetual Testing Initiative’ Gets A Brand New Trailer

Introducing the Perpetual Testing Initiative (PeTI) for Portal 2, which combines the powerful, easy-to-use Puzzle Maker and full Steam Workshop integration. Available free for the PC and Mac on May 8t... 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

Ten Things We Want To See In Valve’s Possible Gaming Console

Ten Things We Want To See In Valve’s Possible Gaming Console

If the rumour mill is any indication of the future (which it often isn't) then it seems like Valve may be planning some kind of hardware release in the coming years. Various patents and employee tweet... 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

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

REPORT: Valve working on next-gen hardware

REPORT: Valve working on next-gen hardware

[caption id="attachment_73417" align="aligncenter" width="505" caption="Prototype image"][/caption] According to recent reports, Valve may be working on a next-gen console, despite the firm denying a... 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

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

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

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