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Valve experimenting with gameplay that changes depending on perspiration

by Taylor Soper on May 7, 2013May 7, 2013 at 2:47 pmComment

Imagine yourself playing a first-person shooter. As the gameplay gets intense, your heart starts racing. The game detects your pulse and the beads of sweat dripping down your face and… Read More

Xi3 responds after Valve tries to distance itself from Piston gaming console

by Taylor Soper on March 13, 2013March 13, 2013 at 4:24 pm1 Comment

Two months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show, a new partnership between hardware manufacturer Xi3 and Valve seemed bright and happy. The two companies had announced a “development stage system optimized for computer gameplay… Read More

‘Portal’ sitcom: Machinima hosting web series based on Valve’s classic game

by Taylor Soper on March 4, 2013March 4, 2013 at 12:26 pmComment

Portal fans rejoice: Online video network Machinima is hosting a ‘Portal’-themed live action web series set to debut later this month. The show, produced by Wayside Creations, is called Aperture… Read More

Valve’s Gabe Newell to receive British gaming award for “exceptional contribution”

by Taylor Soper on February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 at 3:59 pmComment

Gabe Newell is already well-known as a video game legend, and now he’s being honored across the pond. The Valve CEO will be awarded with the British Academy of Film… Read More

Valve launches Steam for Linux with big sale

by Taylor Soper on February 15, 2013February 15, 2013 at 4:37 pm 2 Comments

After nearly two months in beta mode, Valve has released Steam for Linux. You can get the Steam client from the Ubuntu Software Center. Currently there are more than 50 Linux… Read More

Report: Valve letting go of several employees as part of “great cleansing”

by Taylor Soper on February 13, 2013February 13, 2013 at 1:31 pm 4 Comments

Valve hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth made news this week when she tweeted that she had been fired, and now it looks like that was just the beginning of big changes happening at… Read More

Watch J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell talk about making games and movies together

by Taylor Soper on February 13, 2013February 13, 2013 at 8:53 amComment

We wrote last week about director J.J. Abrams and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell giving the keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit and discussing making games and movies together. Now, for our own personal… Read More

Check out Gabe Newell’s insane knife collection

by Taylor Soper on February 11, 2013January 2, 2015 at 9:47 pm1 Comment

Apparently, Gabe Newell likes to collect knives. Sam Hulick, an award-winning composer for video games, Tweeted out this photo a few days ago from a time when he visited Newell’s office. I… Read More

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell: Linux is a “get-out-of-jail free pass for our industry”

by Taylor Soper on February 7, 2013February 8, 2013 at 1:05 pm 28 Comments

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just gave a 30-minute keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit in Las Vegas. He didn’t make any huge product or game announcements — sorry, Half-Life 3 fans… Read More

Valve invests in hardware maker Xi3, partners on ‘Steam Box’

by Taylor Soper on January 8, 2013January 8, 2013 at 1:04 pmComment

We wrote yesterday that Valve’s “Steam Box,” a PC designed to connect to your TV and take advantage of the Steam’s Big Picture mode, would run on Linux and debut this year. Now, we… Read More

Valve unveiling Steam Box this year, will run on Linux

by Taylor Soper on January 7, 2013January 7, 2013 at 2:57 pm1 Comment

It looks like the Steam Box is coming and will run on Linux. German IT site Golem is reporting that Valve engineer Ben Krasnow spoke at a EHSM conference a few weeks ago… Read More

Valve opens Steam for Linux beta to everyone

by Taylor Soper on December 20, 2012December 20, 2012 at 3:54 pmComment

After opening the doors to a limited beta of Steam for Linux to just 1,000 people last month, Valve is now rolling out Steam Linux beta for all users. People can now… Read More

Gabe Newell: Valve to build a gaming PC for the living room

by Taylor Soper on December 10, 2012December 10, 2012 at 4:10 pm 2 Comments

While most of the next-generation console talk is about the future of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo products, there could be another player in the mix: the PC. That’s at least… Read More

Steam’s Big Picture out of beta and into your living room

by Taylor Soper on December 3, 2012December 3, 2012 at 3:19 pm1 Comment

After nearly three months in beta mode, Steam is making its free “Big Picture” mode available to public, giving PC gamers a new option for playing PC games on large-screen displays such as… Read More

Gamer’s dream: Valve seeks testers for upcoming games and hardware prototypes

by Taylor Soper on October 10, 2012December 7, 2014 at 8:23 amComment

Here’s your chance to get a sneak peak into Valve’s latest games and gadgets. The Bellevue-based video game company needs local testers to try out “released and unreleased versions of… Read More

Steam ‘Big Picture’ game mode arrives today in beta

by Todd Bishop on September 10, 2012December 7, 2014 at 8:30 am1 Comment

Look out, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo: There’s a new player in the living room. Valve, the video-game company behind the Steam distribution system, plans to launch the public beta of… Read More

Oregon’s Ewok Village, Steam’s new apps, Facebook’s ticker symbol, and other weekend notes

by Todd Bishop on January 29, 2012January 29, 2012 at 3:27 pmComment

News, notes and other interesting stuff on a drizzly Seattle weekend … The idea was “to figure out how to make a living off the trees without cutting them down,”… Read More

Steam on a roll as Valve targets bigger screens for games

by Todd Bishop on January 6, 2012December 7, 2014 at 8:23 am1 Comment

The Steam video-game platform for Macs and Windows PCs grew substantially in 2011 — with unit sales of games rising more than 100 percent for the seventh straight year, according… Read More

Valve says intruders accessed Steam customer database

by Todd Bishop on November 10, 2011December 7, 2014 at 8:23 amComment

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just sent a message to users of the company’s Steam video-game platform disclosing that online intruders gained access to a Steam database containing customer data, including… Read More

Valve’s Newell predicts Apple will shake up game consoles

by Todd Bishop on October 25, 2011December 7, 2014 at 8:30 am 13 Comments

Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam distribution system for PC games. During another portion of the same… Read More