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Gabe Newell, the boss of Valve Software, the studio behind massively successful games like Team Fortress 2, Portal or Left 4 Dead, still hasn't grown sick and tired of the constant questions concerning Half Life 2: Episode 3, the next installment in its hugely successful first-person shooter series.
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26 August 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Brad Wardell, the leader of Stardock, has sought to offer further justification for the sale of the Impulse digital distribution service to retail chain GameStop, suggesting that Valve might have been silent on the issue of Half Life 2: Episode 3 because of their need to keep working on their own Steam service.
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13 April 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Video game developer Valve has announced that it has hired Doug Church, a veteran game designer that has previously worked on such classics as Ultima, Thief and System Shock.
After working at Origin Systems and at Looking Glass Technologies, Church moved to Eidos, where he worked until 2005, when the decided to be... |
17 March 2011
15:51 GMT |
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It's not often that companies talk about the video games that they thought about creating and never got around to completing, but Valve is not the typical developer and its boss has recently mentioned that, at one point before the appearance of Half Life, their main project was a submarine game.
Talking on Th... |
23 February 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Gabe Newell, who is one of the co-founders and the current managing director at Valve, has claimed that, when taking the number of employees into account, his company is more profitable than technology stalwarts like Apple, the creators of the iPhone, and Google, the dominating force in Internet advertising and searc... |
16 February 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Recently the people at 343 Industries have announced that they are still thinking about creating a Halo movie, saying that there's no rush to create it but that the project is defintiely still alive.The team is also actively looking at possibilities to bring the franchise to television is a movie project does no... |
11 September 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Valve is set to announced three new surprising projects in the next 12 months with the leading executive of the company saying that fans will be surprised by the video game that are in development at the notoriously secretive developer.Valve is a company of contrasts as it avoids talking about its projects before the... |
2 September 2010
07:20 GMT |
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Valve, the company behind the digital distribution service Steam, has decided that any movie project based on its Half Life franchise would happen only if the people who worked on the video games would have full creative control of the way the movie is developed.Gabe Newell, the Chief Executive Officer and one of the... |
30 August 2010
05:10 GMT |
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Valve Software, the developer best known for designing the Half Life series and the creator of premier digital distribution service Steam, has announced that it will be delaying the launch of Portal 2 until next year while also confirming that it's planning to deliver a “surprise” at the E3 trade sho... |
10 June 2010
06:08 GMT |
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Valve announced recently that its flagship video game, Half Life 2, was headed to the Mac. Currently available for download via Steam, the game is one of the most highly acclaimed of its kind, and is now playable on Macs thanks to Valve porting the Steam gaming platform to Mac OS X. “By taking the suspense, ch... |
28 May 2010
05:15 GMT |
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One of the best reviewed first-person shooters ever to be released, Half Life 2, has been confirmed for Mac OS X via a teaser trailer issued by Valve yesterday. The sequel to the highly acclaimed Half Life game is being made available today, through Steam, Valve’s popular gaming platform, which saw its Mac debu... |
26 May 2010
06:50 GMT |
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In March, Softpedia informed its readers that, after weeks of speculation, Valve had officially announced plans to bring its Steam gaming service (and the Source gaming engine), to the Mac. The first games confirmed as coming to OS X were Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life serie... |
27 April 2010
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The Source engine proved to be an incredibly versatile and flexible tool. The first time it came to light was in 2004, in Counter-Strike: Source and, shortly after, there was Half-Life 2. Now, five years later, the engine is still being put to good use and delivering great games. The recently launched Left 4 Dead 2 h... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Valve has managed to release some really good and acclaimed games, but it's not known for a lot of releases. The famous Half-Life was released in 1998, but its sequel had to wait six years to be launched. However, this isn't the case at all with the Left 4 Dead series, as the game scored two iterations in t... |
2 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead gets brand-new DLC and it's just another map or lesser detail like most DLCs. Valve lives up to its promise to continue to take care of the L4D community and releases Crash Course as a downloadable content. With just over a month away from Left 4 Dead 2's launch, the first game still gets enough... |
30 September 2009
06:51 GMT |
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After developing the Half Life mode Counter Strike, Minh Le, or better known as Gooseman, joined Valve as part of the programming team responsible for Counter Strike 2. But the two didn't click at all and the pressure applied by the gaming company made Minh Le return to the life of a “lone wolf” prog... |
29 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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The shooter genre has certainly delivered a lot of highly successful franchises, the likes of Halo, Resistance or Gears of War in recent years. But one of the series that have truly brought the genre into mainstream attention and into the hearts of many gamers all around the world is Counter Strike. Originally devel... |
8 July 2009
03:50 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it is now suing Activision Blizzard over the amount of royalties that the publisher has to pay as part of a recent settlement. Valve is seeking to have a court get it about half a million dollars, a sum that could be inflated when legal fees are added. Activision Blizzard has also threatened ... |
5 May 2009
02:32 GMT |
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Valve is notorious for keeping kinda quiet when it comes to two things: clear release dates and sales figures. Especially since they launched their digital download platform, the well known Steam, the company has rarely told videogamers how much it sells. Now, in an unusual turn, it's telling us how much it has ... |
4 December 2008
05:28 GMT |
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Half Life, the original, is turning 10 years old and Valve is celebrating by offering the game for download through Steam for the incredibly low price of 0.98 dollars. Yes, you heard that right, just 98 cents for one of the best shooters ever to make it computers. The offer is currently live and you need to install ... |
20 November 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Valve is a very popular company with the gamer community, mainly because of the fact that it has always been there for users, which shows through various actions, like giving away free trials, or offering support for the very active modding community.Mods, or modifications, have always played an important part in alm... |
18 November 2008
02:21 GMT |
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Episodic content is portrayed in the game industry as something pretty risky. It works on casual games, like Sam & Max or StrongBad, which can offer small and funny experiences that entertain the player until the next episode comes out, several months later. But in the major gaming industry, it’s something that... |
8 October 2008
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We recently reported that Steam, Valve's leading digital content distribution network, would start hosting mods developed by the community. These are modifications made to games, which use the engine of the title to create new gameplay modes with the same or different characters. Such was the case with Cou... |
6 October 2008
03:00 GMT |
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Valve has always been interested in the gaming community, especially modifying games. Let's not forget, one of the biggest online shooters, Counter Strike, was a result of a modification made to Valve's big game Half Life. The success made Valve take the team behind it into its own studio and create n... |
29 September 2008
14:01 GMT |
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I got a little riddle for you all: what's the only Zombie Apocalypse that people (well, gamers) are actually eagerly awaiting to happen? You get ten shogun shells to store in your survival kit if you answered Left 4 Dead.The rather sad news is that, probably because of an outbreak of zombie infestation which wip... |
26 August 2008
08:44 GMT |
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If there were any reasons left to doubt Valve's The Orange Box success or real value, they were all wiped out right now, with the announcement that over 100 different awards were received by the multi-platform, multi-game offering. About half of these awards consisted in "Game of The Year" honor, while the remai... |
11 March 2008
05:05 GMT |
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The launch of The Orange Box brought Valve even more popularity than it previously enjoyed. Half Life fans all around the world are only just beginning to discover the second installment in Valve's episodic trilogy, being introduced to new locations outside of City 17, yet Valve is already talking Episode Three.... |
12 November 2007
03:48 GMT |
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Some of you were anxiously waiting for this piece of news to arrive, I'm sure and luckily for you, we spotted it just in time for your switching on the PC. Courtesy of oxm.co.uk, your eyes will be treated below to the achievements available for Half-Life's "The Orange Box" package. According to the same sou... |
12 September 2007
03:07 GMT |
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How about playing not just for fun, but for money too? I know what you're thinking: "Naaa. I'm not up to it, there must be millions out there better than I am." But you'd be wrong, as Tournament.com announced that it will soon offer gamers the ability to play top online games for money in a safe and se... |
30 March 2007
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Eidos has teamed up with Valve to offer its best titles through Steam, Valve's digital distribution system. Famous titles like Battlestations Midway, Just Cause, Hitman, Tomb Raider and Commandos will surely be there on the list and as for the price of each game, they will be US$ 35.95 for more recent games and ... |
16 March 2007
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