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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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