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Steam announced today that their system will be getting some updates and changes, the biggest one of which is the voting system that people have come to

After multiple warnings and posts about how it was going to happen the past couple years, Valve is finally pulling the plug on Steam Greenlight and will be replacing it with Steam Direct For those who don't know, Greenlight is a service that allowed users and developers to throw lesser-known titles into Steam's service The[...]

Valve have been really champions of VR It is clear the company truly believes in the potential of the tech, and alongside helping with the Vive, have made a great VR storefront on Steam. However, as of yet, big games from big companies have been hard to come by Unsurprisingly though, Valve are ready to dive[...]

Gabe Newell At GDC 2010 During a round table at Valve's headquarters in Washington, boss Gabe Newell weighed in on the Trump travel ban, saying "We have people who work at Valve who can't go home They've been here for years They pay taxes They cheer for New England in the Super Bowl and we try to[...]

A showing of intent for both Portal and Half-Life movies was made years ago by J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell at DICE. Since then though, the projects have

He usually pretty quiet in his dealings, and as one of the keepers of Half Life 3, that only builds up the persona. Well, I reckon Newell is in store for a ton of questions about just that game as the Valve man is set for a reddit AMA today If you did want to see what he[...]

There were rumours circulating over the past few days that a second iteration of the HTC Vive might be on the way at this weeks CES. For many early

It's the holiday season, which means that gifts aplenty are flying around, and if you are into games, you might find yourself well stocked on that front

Turtle Rock Studios, who developed the first game with Valve, have put out an episode that has never been released called 'Dam it' It bridges the gap between the "Dead Air" to "Blood Harvest" episodes and also provides two survival maps too You can download it from here. It's said that you can complete the episode[...]

The Vive's controllers are a strange thing. They absolutely do the job, but they are pretty weird looking and don't really allow you to simulate what your

Abrams announced he would be working with Valve to try and get a few movie project of theirs off the ground, with a focus on Half-Life and Portal However, things went very quiet after that, and we have only heard the slightest peeps since then. However, it seems we might be hearing something about the film[...]

Dota 2's The International is always utterly insane when it comes to prize money, but its popularity is only growing. You can tell by that ever rising

There are many things that early adopters have to eat when they pick up new technology. Retail prices before any cuts or discounts is one. However, it

Rick and Morty is ever growing with more and more people cottoning on to the series very clever execution. Well, the creators of VR title Job Simulator

Valve have come under-fire for this by Bloomberg for facilitating sites like these, by allowing Steam accounts to be attached to the websites, thus giving you the items It doesn't look great. Here is where it gets pretty wild though ProSyndicate and TmarTn are pretty massive YouTubers with millions of subscribers Syndicate is one of the[...]

It's fair to say some fans of the original Star Wars: Battlefront didn't dig everything DICE did with the game, so a couple of fans have been putting together a new Battlefront alternative called Galaxy in Turmoil. Usually this would get squashed, but the developer is now claiming to have signed a deal with Valve to bring[...]

For others, myself included, the headsets are coming later. Not to let that dampen their launc though, Valve and HTC have put out a launch trailer for the headset It's actually quite effective, just showing off the headset in use It also shows off something unexpected that I'd been hearing about the tech, which is that[...]

While games come and games go, Dota 2, has been the thing that I always happily come back to every few months. With Valve coming out with their own supported VR headset, and already having a Dota based demo, it seemed inevitable the two things would cross. And indeed they have Valve have now announced that Dota[...]

The HTC Vive went up for pre-order yesterday, for a cool $799. The big question was how many would stump up the cash to get in on the premium VR

It goes on sale in just a few hours, so you can pre-order before the headset's April 5th launch. The question is now, how will it do at that price, and will it meet expectations? I don't think HTC or Valve are betting the house just yet,and they understand it's a luxury product for high end[...]

It's been announced that the Valve backed, HTC Vive will launch in early April to the tune of $799 This might seem high, but this isn't just the headset Alongside that you will get two hefty motion controllers, a pair of Vive base stations, a Vive Link Box, and some ear buds This is all[...]

He's the face of PC gaming, and as the head of Valve, a fan favorite With moments like this next one too, it's not hard to see why. At the Unity Vision Summit, Newell appeared in a video to say that all the developers at the Summit would be getting a free Vive VR headset[...]

At $599, it was a lot to ask, and it set the next most anticipated headsets up, the PlayStation VR and the HTC and Valve Vive. Well, the latter of those will set up its flag in just a few weeks now, as The Verge confirmed from the HTC February 29th is the magic date to[...]

And as almost always is the case with this game, it isn't good news. In an email chain posted on Reddit by a fan (via GameSpot), it appears that Half-Life co-creator and writer on the games, Marc Laidlaw has left Valve after 18 years Laidlaw states that age is the key factor here, and that he[...]

A little bit ago, we had heard that the HTC Vive was delayed due to a new technological advance. It was said we'd hear about it at CES, and alas, it has

It got out this was due to a cacheing error, but Valve remained quiet. Well, now five days later, Valve have finally spoken up about the incident While they reiterated no serious action could have been taken and users were safe, they explained the whole issue started with a DDOS attack: Early Christmas morning (Pacific Standard Time),[...]

There were fears that this was a large hack on Christmas day, but those seem unfounded. Valve have now given a statement to GameSpot saying: Steam is back up and running without any known issues As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other[...]

Well, despite threats from multiple hacking groups, it is not Xbox Live or PlayStation Network this Christmas, instead it's the PC users that are

This means big business for Valve and the game's they host. But which ones sold the best in 2015? While I doubt we will have official numbers posted, this summary from Steam Spy (Medium) is a decent estimation These numbers aren't exact, as they are taken from public profiles, but it gives us a decent ball[...]

The HTC Vive was meant to be the first major VR Headset to make its way to the public. It's the most impressive of the headsets I've tried, so I was quite