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It's wild to think about Steam as still a growing platform, but Valve really do seem to be killing it right now in this market. Of course, other publishing services, like Battle.net, Origins, GoG, and more are not doing bad for themselves either, so we can probably attest this to the growing PC platform as a[...]

Valve has announced the winners of its community voted awards and it features a lot of 2017's biggest games, but also a lot of good old ones. A little while ago we reported on the rather out there awards Valve were going to be giving away for its Steam Awards, and now that votes have been counted[...]

French was also involved in television and radio plays and had recently retired as the head of Imagination Theatre, where he had been involved with the company for over two decades. credit//Valve You may not recognize the name Jim French immediately, but if you're a fan of the Left 4 Dead series you'll know his voice[...]

Steam has unveiled the nominations for their kooky awards, showing off 13 categories to be voted on over the next few days. Steam's awards are always a

People have been waiting a long ol' time for Valve to announce a game that isn't MOBA or card-based The notion of Portal 3 has floated around perhaps only just a little less intensely than Half-Life 3, with the world of science and testing still being one of the medium's favorite ever. Well, there is a[...]

And gaming fans, rejoice — this week's release is the soundtrack to Portal! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Mondo, in conjunction with Valve software, is proud to present the premiere vinyl release to the soundtrack the legendary puzzle adventure PORTAL[...]

At some point, Steam's popularity has to bottom out. By virtue of the universe, eventually the service has to peak, but it seems we are some way off of

They don't have time to build you a new Half-Life game, but Valve apparently had time to create a pyroland room in their new Washington offices This photo was posted by longtime Valve employee Matt T Wood, who showed off what the room has in store for whoever has the pleasure of visiting them. Turns out Pyroland actually exists![...]

Which is kind of cool, in that it tries to match hardcore gamers against other hardcore gamers, while leaving the n00bs to wipe the floor with eachother, but does have something of a Big Brother vibe. Valve says the results of the experiment have been positive, allowing them to keep the parts of the Prime system[...]

A new post made it's way to the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive blog this week, alerting fans that Valve would be doing a bigger crackdown on cheaters Now for those of us who play on occasion, that probably sounds like the kind of thing Valve would say every week if they had the chance Cheating has become[...]

Valve is getting ready to launch the Steam Curator update before the end of fall, and with it will come some big changes of how games will be distributed The short version is that it is giving more power to developers and adding in new options for finding other games Essentially, the curators will be[...]

Steam already has a number of issues going for it when it comes to gifting items, now they've just added a brand new item to the list that we're sure will

This month we got two different pairs to try out as the Axial and the Valve lines join the roster. credit//Gunnar Optiks Starting off with the Axial that you see above, this is a thicker black rim than we usually see from Gunnar, with a denser plastic mold that is designed to take more of an impact in[...]

For the uninitiated, Laidlaw is a former writer at Valve, back when the company actually made games for living instead of just focusing on Steam and eSports The man joined the company back in the late-'90s and stayed there until his departure in January 2016, and was responsible for a lot of the story elements[...]

News came down this morning that Valve will be forcing companies to hold back on the amount of Steam keys they can generate for a single game That spells bad news for a number of issues, such as giveaways, review copies, and re-issued keys for games that don't operate properly But the biggest item that[...]

Portal and Team Fortress 2 are some of the most popular games of all time; and they're Valve franchises that fans have been wanting Funko to get their hands on for quite a while now In news that is sure to excite them, their long wait is over sooner than you might think: In celebration of[...]

Valve announced their first new game in years yesterday, the DOTA card game Artifact Which was a bit of a disappointment to a lot of fans hoping for Half Life 3 or even Portal 3 But, really, we should have all seen this coming. Blizzard has done damn well with Hearthstone, so seeing a DOTA tcg[...]

Last night at The International 7, Valve had a special surprise cooked up for the fans A lot of people were unsure what to make of the excitement, but when the trailer finally hit, we got to see a glimpse of a new card game called Artifact that is based in the Dota universe Here's[...]

Probably one of the hardest things to do in eSports is setting new records of any kind. When you're planning tournaments and figuring out the odds and ends

At the end of Steam's Summer Sale, Valve Anti-Cheat (VAC) auto-detected 40,411 cheating accounts and immediately banned them from the service This is the highest number of banned accounts the company has ever created, and that's saying something since the previous record was only set back in October 2016 with 15,227. If you're curious what games get[...]

It's been a couple days bit it's worth noting that Dota 2 has finally opened up their co-op campaign, and released details of the campaign via the blog on Thursday. Valve had previously announced that it would be adding a fresh new co-op campaign to Dota 2's multiplayer online battle arena Right now you can play[...]

Valve has always been a bit of a mysterious company, and so it hasn't been too shocking that they've kept pretty quiet about their new Steam Direct program One of the early questions about the switch from Steam Greenlight to Steam Direct was just how much the Steam Direct fee would set back indie devs[...]

Valve has been taken to court by two mobile developers, Lilith Games and uCool, who have made smaller MOBA Dota 2 clones for smartphones in China Naturally, Valve sued due to copyrights, to which uCool fought back and claimed Valve doesn't own the source material the game is based on, and their case should be thrown out. Which,[...]

While working to fine-tune the balance, Valve nerfed the hell out of all respawn talents. Talents, special upgrades added in patch 7.00, allow a player to invest a skill point into a tree of upgrades for their hero of choice While some options are fairly low-key (a few extra points of health, or some added intelligence),[...]

You know how you're able to purchase gifts and deal them out to your friends whenever you'd like on your own time? Valve just tweaked their system to make that obsolete A new update that went into place this week changed the purchasing and sending options to that you sending someone a game is only[...]

Valve writer Chet Faliszek has left Valve under amicable circumstances The news was revealed on GamesIndustry.biz, and Faliszek wrote of his departure: "[It was] Nothing exciting or drama filled I worked there 12 years, shipped a bunch of great games and some amazing hardware and wanted to change things up." Over his 12-year Valve career, Faliszek worked on[...]

Social media, the Steam Support page, and any PR reps I know who work with Valve. The first thing I did while waiting on Steam's response was checking through the Anti-Defamation League's list of hate symbols to see if there was anything in that NONWA name Because that seems a bit fishy right? Sadly, despite my[...]

  Somehow Valve went from everyone's favorite game company to that guy at the bar who won't stop staring at you, asks for your number, and follows you home just because you said no Basically, Valve is that guy in that MAD TV "Can I have your number?" sketch If you want to keep competing in ranked DOTA 2[...]

But since we've heard nothing since 2008, I'm willing to say we just aren't getting this one. As for Half Life 3, which people still want desperately to this day, despite Valve officially saying that they aren't going to be making it Not only has so much time passed that the window for Half Life 3 to be anything[...]

Compete is reporting today that artists who are developing skins for Dota 2 are getting cheated by Valve out of profits earned through the store for their designs The complaints stem from a subreddit where a collection of artists have put their collective complaints under a single username and voiced their concerns over the way the[...]