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Valve Confirms Discount on Three GTA Titles for Mac

Valve, the development studio behind some of the most popular video games ever created, has announced a discount for three Grand Theft Auto games on the Macintosh platform. Via steampowered.com, the official Steam portal accessible through any web browser, Valve confirmed today that “Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand ...

14 February 2012
08:00 GMT

Blizzard Battles Valve for DOTA Name

Video game developer Blizzard, best known for the Warcraft and Diablo franchises, has launched a case against rival developer Valve, seeking to deny the use of the DOTA name for its upcoming MOBA titles. The action was lodged at the Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, where Valve...

11 February 2012
02:45 GMT

Steam Hackers May Have Gotten a Backup Database With Encrypted Information

Valve boss Gabe Newell has made a new announcement for users of its Steam digital distribution service and Steam forums, sharing some more information about the hacker attack suffered by the company late last year.Hackers dominated the spotlight in 2011, as after forcing Sony to take down its PlayStation Network, som...

11 February 2012
02:31 GMT

Team Fortress 2 Meet the Pyro Video Out this Year, Big Surprise Coming Soon

Valve has made a few announcements concerning its massively popular Team Fortress 2 online shooter, confirming that players will finally receive the last animated short film in the game’s “Meet the Team” series, while a mysterious project and lots of other things are currently in development.Team Fo...

4 February 2012
05:31 GMT

Alan Wake Out for PC on February 16

Remedy Entertainment has confirmed that Alan Wake for the PC platform will be released via digital distribution platforms like Steam on February 16, in both a standard and a limited collector’s edition. Alan Wake impressed quite a lot of Xbox 360 owners with its dark atmosphere and clever third person shooter ...

3 February 2012
19:31 GMT

Steam Group Wants Members to Play Half-Life 2 in Order to Get Half-Life 3 Details

Steam users have begun to once again demand answers from Valve about its long in development Half-Life 2: Episode 3 game, this time through an initiative that will see them play Half-Life 2 and try to remind the company about the popularity of the series. Half-Life 2, after quite a long wait, was eventually released...

3 February 2012
18:31 GMT

Steam Mobile App Now Available on iOS and Android

Valve has just released a mobile version of its Steam digital distribution program, allowing users to check out the online store, purchase games and browse their library or screenshots, while interacting with their friends. Valve’s Steam is the most popular digital distribution service on the PC and Mac platfo...

27 January 2012
15:31 GMT

Valve Launches Steam iPhone App

Valve has launched Steam Mobile, a portable version of their popular gaming platform for avid gamers who own an iOS device. According to the steampowered.com site, Steam Mobile will let you connect with your buddies on the go, use the built-in chat client to communicate your thoughts, and even browse the extensive S...

27 January 2012
05:18 GMT

Counter-Strike Gets Unofficial Android Port

Valve’s Counter-Strike franchise has just been unofficially ported to Android devices. The mobile version of the game is powered by Unity 3D platform and allows Android enthusiast to play online with more than 600 players.   Developed by the folks over at XDA Developers, Counter-Strike 1.6 has two stable v...

23 January 2012
06:31 GMT

Steam Login, Download & Profile Issues 1/20/2012

Steam, the most popular digital distribution service on the PC platform, has apparently been affected by a series of errors today, January 20, 2012, with lots of users from all around the world encountering problems when trying to download games or log into their actual accounts.Valve won over many people with the st...

20 January 2012
10:34 GMT

Valve Might Develop Steam for Linux

Valve has manged to become the biggest gaming distribution platform in the world and until recently it was only available for the Windows platform, but now there is hope that a Linux version of Steam will follow. There have been some rumors, for a couple of years, that Valve will start to officially release a Linux v...

18 January 2012
06:59 GMT

Incoming 2012: DOTA 2

What we know:Valve knows that Defense of the Ancients can be serious business and really wants to enter the market, enough to poach one of the man most associated with the original Warcraft III mod, IceFrog, and give him the resources needed to re-create the experience with better graphics and updated mechanics.The g...

9 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Steam Reports 100 Percent Increase in Sales in 2011

Steam, the video game digital distribution service from Valve, has reported that it has managed to increase its year over year unit sales during 2011 by more than 100 percent, the seventh year that it has managed this impressive feat.The company also says that overall sales value has increased during the same period,...

9 January 2012
17:41 GMT

Steam Surpasses 5 Million Concurrent Users

The winter holiday season has been extremely good to Valve’s Steam, as not only did it host a series of massive holiday sales, but it also saw more than 5 million players connected to the digital distribution service at the same time.Steam is currently the service to beat in terms of digital distribution, as Va...

5 January 2012
02:37 GMT

Study: Steam Cheaters Lose Friends, Spread the Habit

A new research paper that was published by a team at the University of Tampa has shown that those who cheat in video games have a tendency to pass this habit to their friends and then lose many of the fellow players who do not share the habit.Researchers worked with Valve to get access to the playing habits of its 12...

3 January 2012
17:41 GMT

GOTY 2011: Game of the Year Runner Up – Portal 2

2011 was a stunning year for gaming, with a huge number of quality titles being released in the last 12 months. While we were treated with plenty of worthy contenders, especially at the end of the year, the runner up for our Game of the Year award is Portal 2, which appeared back in April. We already praised the fir...

31 December 2011
05:01 GMT

Valve Offers Dialog Talk at GDC 2012

Video game developer and publisher Valve has announced that it will be holding a programming oriented talk at the upcoming Games Developers Conference 2012, which will take place from March 5 to 9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.The conference from Valve will be headlined by Elan Ruskin and will be...

30 December 2011
02:24 GMT

Half-Life 3 Rumors Denied by Valve

Valve has once again made a public statement saying that it hasn’t started teasing fans with the possible reveal of Half-Life 3 or at least Half-Life 2: Episode 3 by releasing logos or videos filled with hidden messages. Valve is famous for its top-notch games, ranging from Portal to Team Fortress or Left 4 De...

29 December 2011
18:11 GMT

Steam Users Who Bought Renegade Ops 4-Pack Are Now Getting 7 Actual Games

Some Steam users have gotten a peculiar gift from the digital distribution service today, as those who bought the Renegade Ops 4-pack, which gave them a copy of the game plus three extra ones to give to friends, have now received three new copies of the twin-stick shooter made by Avalanche Games and published by Sega...

27 December 2011
05:36 GMT

GOTY 2011: Best Story Runner Up – Portal 2

This year was ripe with quite a lot of decent stories delivered by video games, some hilarious, some controversial, while others were there purely to provide a bare-bone narrative to the action. Portal 2, however, delivered one of the most impressive stories of them all.Valve has always tried to create great gameplay...

22 December 2011
06:58 GMT

GamersGate Boss Believes Steam Will Lose Users, Admires Origin

GamersGate is expanding its offers in terms of digital distribution, and its CEO, Theo Bergquist, has talked about the competition in this part of the games industry, specifically about Valve’s established Steam and Electronic Arts’ recently launched Origin.PC gamers have more than enough choices when it ...

21 December 2011
03:10 GMT

Steam Winter Holiday Sale Has Big Discounts, New Contests, Huge Prizes

Once again, Valve has kicked off the traditional Steam Winter Holiday Sale, with the digital distribution service being host to a series of daily discounts on great titles, as well as to price cuts for many other games and even a special competition that has a huge prize.Steam has always marked special occasions with...

20 December 2011
06:25 GMT

Steam Now Accepts Coupons, Get Ready for More Discounts

Valve, the company behind the Steam digital distribution service, has introduced a new coupon feature to its platform, allowing video game developers and publishers to offer targeted discounts to groups of gamers.The coupons are linked to the Steam Inventory feature, which was originally introduced in order to allow ...

9 December 2011
09:31 GMT

Valve Employee T-Shirt Shows Half-Life 3 Logo

A marketing representative working for UberEnd, the company who is creating Monday Night Combat, has spotted a Valve employee at a local game developer event wearing a T-shirt bearing the possible logo for Half-Life 3.His Twitter message says: “All I'm saying is I saw this at a local game developer event w...

2 December 2011
10:06 GMT

Steam’s Daily Wishlist Giveaway Offers Lucky Gamers Their Most Wanted Games

Valve has kicked off a brand new promotion on its Steam digital distribution service, this time in the form of the Daily Wishlist Giveaway, which offers ten lucky users the top 10 games on their wishlist, every day into the holiday season.Steam just ran a massive series of offers as part of its Autumn sale and now, i...

2 December 2011
05:01 GMT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Is Now Live on Steam

Counter-Strike fans can finally rejoice as Valve has kicked off the beta stage for the newest installment the series, Global Offensive, on the PC, through its Steam digital distribution service.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was announced earlier this year and, with the promise of combining the best elements from t...

1 December 2011
14:31 GMT

Steam Is Not Threatened by Piracy

Steam is the biggest player in the digital distribution market on the PC and it seems that the quality of service that has brought it to the fore of the pack also allows it to dismiss any real threat from the piracy phenomenon. Speaking to The Cambridge Student, Gabe Newell, who is the leader of Valve, stated, &ldqu...

29 November 2011
02:31 GMT

Steam Autumn Sale Brings Major Discounts

Just in time for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, Valve has unleashed a new edition of its annual Autumn Sale on its Steam digital distribution service, slashing the prices on a huge number of games and DLC.Steam has gotten users accustomed to lots of high quality discounts around certain holidays, including the winter...

24 November 2011
06:48 GMT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Kicks Off on November 30

Valve has finally confirmed just when the closed beta stage for its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive online shooter will debut, as at the end of the month players will get to see just how the new game actually feels.Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was revealed earlier this year and, with the promise of combining the...

21 November 2011
14:21 GMT

Bath Water Makes Backyards Bloom Thanks to Innovative Valve

A regular bath requires a significant quantity of water that goes down the drain in a matter of minutes. A British company is trying to minimize the loss, by letting our garden plants absorb the water resources we no longer need. Their drainage water valves called Water Two develop an entire cost-effective water ci...

18 November 2011
04:54 GMT

EA's Origin Has No Chance of Becoming More Important than Steam

Publisher Electronic Arts has worked hard to push its digital distribution service Origin but a number of analysts watching the video game market believe that the effort is not enough to make it more relevant than Steam from Valve.Speaking to IndustryGamer David Cole, who is an analyst working for DFC Intelligence, s...

14 November 2011
21:31 GMT

Origin Passes 6 Million Users, Can Beat Steam

In the ongoing fight for digital distribution supremacy between Steam and Origin one executive from Electronic Arts has said that Valve's success relies too heavily on third party titles, where his own company is able to use Origin to promote its own games.Eric Brown, who is the Chief Financial Officer at Electr...

11 November 2011
13:31 GMT

Steam Gets Hacked, Credit Card Details Might be Compromised

Valve has released an official statement concerning its ongoing problems with its forums, saying that its whole Steam service has been hacked, with cyber-attackers gaining access to a database that contained user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses and possibly credit card information.  Steam is the mos...

11 November 2011
02:28 GMT

Valve Offers More Beta Invites for DOTA 2

The developers of the DOTA 2 game at Valve have announced that players can complete a survey through Steam in order to get access to the beta of the MOBA title.The team is also allowing all those who have received access to send two invites to those who they believe are interested in the game and can help with testin...

2 November 2011
10:22 GMT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Delayed by Valve

Valve has confirmed that the closed beta stage for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive won't make its intended late October release date, as the studio has delayed it after getting some serious feedback from professional Counter-Strike players and needs to make modifications before it's ready for at least a cl...

1 November 2011
17:51 GMT

Steam Halloween Sale Brings Massive Discounts on Spooky Games

As usual, Valve has unleashed a special themed event on its Steam digital distribution service, slashing the price on a variety of games in honor of the upcoming Halloween celebration in the USA.Steam has gotten its community used to quite a lot of massive discounts, offering not just daily deals, but also mid-week o...

28 October 2011
06:00 GMT

Number of Team Fortress 2 Players Increased 5 Times After Free-to-Play Release

Valve has shared some extremely interesting statistics about free-to-play games, confirming that the recent transformation of its popular Team Fortress 2 online shooter into a free-to-play title generated a massive increase in its player count, and a lot of these gamers even started spending money in the title.Valve&...

26 October 2011
04:01 GMT

Valve Believes Only Superior Service Can Defeat Piracy

Video game developer and Steam creator Valve has again talked about piracy and how the only way to reduce its impact is to deliver an experience that the illegal copies of video games cannot match up to.This means that digital distribution can reach and turn a profit even in those countries that are traditionally ign...

25 October 2011
15:01 GMT

DOTA Name Should Belong to the Community, Blizzard Believes

Blizzard, after just showcasing the first big details of its special Blizzard DOTA title, has once again shared its views on the whole trademark issue surrounding the DOTA name, as Valve is currently trying to secure it before releasing Dota 2 next year.DOTA, or Defense of the Ancients, originated as a community mod ...

25 October 2011
04:45 GMT

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Gets Showcased in Hour-Long Video

Valve, Intel and the Electronic Sports League (ESL) partnered up for the Intel Extreme Masters Global Challenge in New York to organize a competition between the best Counter-Strike players from North America and Europe, and set them one against the other in an hour-long match of the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global O...

20 October 2011
04:54 GMT

Valve Has No Plans for Source Engine 2

One of the leading developers at Valve has said that the company will continue to offer incremental updates for its Source video game engine instead of trying to create a completely new version in the near term.Talking to GamingLives Valve's Chet Faliszek has stated, “That’s just the way we work with...

19 October 2011
15:01 GMT

Valve Shows Huge Profit from Mann Co. Team Fortress 2 Store

Video game developer Valve has announced, on the occasion of the first year Manniversary, that it has generated a profit of more than 2 million dollars (which is more than 1.3 million Euro) from sales through the Team Fotress 2 Mann Co. store.The company has not said how much of the revenue created by objects put on ...

17 October 2011
03:28 GMT

Gabe Newell Attacks Closed Platforms, Names Apple

One of the most important people in the gaming industry has attacked the spread of the closed platforms, like the Apple created ones, predicting that they could soon dominate the entertainment market.Speaking at a panel at the Washington Technology Industry Association organized TechNW conference in Seattle, Gabe New...

13 October 2011
03:07 GMT

Valve Talks About Portal 2 GLaDOS Origins

Speaking at the GDC Online event one of the leading developers at Valve revealed how a big mistake lead to one of the most interesting scenes in the puzzle platformer Portal 2.Eric Wolpaw, who is the writer at Valve who was in charge of writing Portal 2, spoke about the original plans for the GLaDOS potato carrying s...

12 October 2011
16:31 GMT

Valve Boss Believes PCs Are Still Relevant and Popular

Gabe Newell the boss of Valve Software, the company behind very successful franchises like Half-Life, Left 4 Dead or Portal, not to mention the extremely popular Steam digital distribution service, believes the PC is still quite relevant for the gaming industry, especially since sales are still going strong.As always...

7 October 2011
15:21 GMT

EA Has 'Nothing to Report' on Battlefield 3 and Steam Deal

Shortly after reports that a deal between Electronic Arts and Valve was close to being made, in regards to the appearance of Battlefield 3 on Steam, EA has released a statement saying that there's "nothing to report" about the issue.Battlefield 3 is set to be distributed digitally on the PC only through EA'...

7 October 2011
11:11 GMT

EA and Valve Close to Bringing Battlefield 3 to Steam, Report Says

Electronic Arts, the publisher of the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter, and Valve, the company behind digital distribution service Steam, are reportedly close to an agreement which could mean that the new FPS is going to be available for purchase on Steam, not just on EA's own Origin service.Special c...

6 October 2011
06:38 GMT

EA Says Origin Is Not Taking On Steam

After Valve's Gabe Newell had nothing but good things to say about the Origin digital distribution service from Electronic Arts two executives from that company talked about the respectful competition between the two companies.Peter Moore, who is the new Chief Operations Officer working at Electronic Arts, has t...

4 October 2011
16:31 GMT

Download Full Portal 2 Soundtrack for Free from Valve

Portal 2, the hugely successful first-person puzzle game from Valve, has received the third and last downloadable chapter of its free soundtrack, which is now available from the game's Think With Portals website. Portal 2 impressed a huge number of gamers from all around the world, across platforms like the P...

4 October 2011
02:37 GMT

Portal 2: Peer Review Arrives on October 4

Video game developer Valve has announced that the Peer Review content pack for Portal 2 will be launched on the Steam digital distribution service, the Xbox Live Microsoft service and the PlayStation Network on October 4.The DLC will be free for all those who own the original game and will include a section which exp...

3 October 2011
09:31 GMT


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