Archive For Valve Tag

Half-Life 2’s Citadel compared with tallest buildings in the world

Half-Life 2’s Citadel compared with tallest buildings in the world

This comparison will shock you, as it really shows how big Half-Life 2 's Citadel is. The pic above is from the game, and it shows the Citadel's towering presence. Now, what if we compare it to ... 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

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

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

Blizzard Sues Valve over the “DOTA” name

Blizzard Sues Valve over the “DOTA” name

It's a little unfortunate what has happened, but it seems that Blizzard has sued Valve over the "DOTA" name. You can check out the filing here. "By this Opposition, Blizzard seeks to prevent r... Read More

Half-Life characters and their real life counterparts [PIC]

Half-Life characters and their real life counterparts [PIC]

We have an absolutely rare image of Half-Life 3 characters and their real life counterparts. It's simply impressive how realistic the video game models look compared to the real thing. We don't... 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

Mobile Steam App Now Available

Mobile Steam App Now Available

The Steam application for iOS and Android devices, announced last week, is now available to all gamers around the world. Launched last week in a closed beta, the Steam app allows gamers to chat wit... Read More

Valve Announces Steam App For Mobile

Valve Announces Steam App For Mobile

Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the... Read More

12,000 fans come together to ask Valve for information on Half-Life 3

12,000 fans come together to ask Valve for information on Half-Life 3

Valve has been teasing Half-Life 3 for a long time. A long, long time. It almost seems like torture now. And people just can't take anymore. A group of 12,000 Valve fans have created a group on Stea... Read More

Garry’s mod creator receives a Half-Life 3 t-shirt from Valve

Garry’s mod creator receives a Half-Life 3 t-shirt from Valve

It seems like Half-Life 3 rumours are once again surfacing. Garry's mod creator, Garry Newman, has received a Half-Life 3 t-shirt from Valve. Of course, it was him that revealed this via a tweet.... Read More

Valve releases PR; Steam userbase doubles in 2011, Big picture mode coming soon

Valve releases PR; Steam userbase doubles in 2011, Big picture mode coming soon

Valve has released the 2011 growth rate details with the press, and it is massive! During 2011 the platform grew to offer over 1,800 games to over 40 million accounts. Year-over-year unit sales i... Read More

Possible Half Life 3 References Found In CS: GO Files, Contains Gordon’s Face

Possible Half Life 3 References Found In CS: GO Files, Contains Gordon’s Face

Someone on reddit found what appears to be Gordon Freeman's face on one of the textures from CS:GO, among other clues. Now this may be wild speculation, but because it seems a bit odd for Valve to... Read More

Steam hits 5 million concurrent users

Steam hits 5 million concurrent users

Valve's digital distribution platform, Steam hits a new milestone, as the peak users reached 5 million on January 2. This must be good news to Valve as they managed to add 1 million to their Steam u... Read More

Chet Faliszek from Valve puts an end to all Half-Life 3 Rumours

Chet Faliszek from Valve puts an end to all Half-Life 3 Rumours

Valve knows how much the community wants this game, but it seems like they have to wait. Chet Faliszek from Valve has put an end to all the rumours that were plaguing the internet and posted this:... Read More

Team Fortress 2 Ships Holiday Update

Team Fortress 2 Ships Holiday Update

Valve and Steam, today announced the second annual holiday-themed "Australian Holidays" update, featuring two retro-futuristic "Dr. Grordbort" class packs for the Engineer and Pyro, designed by We... Read More

Steam Announces The Daily Wishlist Giveaway

Steam Announces The Daily Wishlist Giveaway

The Daily Wishlist Giveaway begins today on Steam. Each day 10 people will win the top 10 games on their wishlist. The Giveaway begins December 1st and will continue into the holiday season. To en... Read More

Half Life 3 shirt spotted on a Valve Employee

Half Life 3 shirt spotted on a Valve Employee

Chandana Ekanayake, an indie developer who works at Uber Entertainment spotted this Half Life 3 t shirt worn by a Valve employee. He spotted this at a local game developer event. Now, this isn't def... Read More