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Valve moves The International to Vancouver, B.C., as Seattle loses huge esports event

Update, March 19: Valve provided this statement to GeekWire: “Rogers Arena is a great venue, Vancouver is a great city,… Read More

The International in Vancouver? Valve may move huge ‘Dota 2’ esports event from Seattle to Canada

The International could be heading north. Valve isn’t yet talking publicly about its plans, but several clues point to the… Read More

Preview: ‘AirMech: Wastelands’ from Carbon Games is an impressive collision of genres

If you aren’t into player vs. player or battle arena games, you may not be familiar with Carbon Games. It… Read More

HTC to Google? Rumors swirl over possible deal for smartphone pioneer

HTC plans to halt trading of its stock tomorrow to make a “material announcement,” the Taiwan Stock Exchange announced this morning,… Read More

A bigger risk than North Korea? What OpenAI’s ‘Dota 2’ bot says about artificial intelligence

Friday at The International, Valve’s big eSports competition in Seattle, the nonprofit OpenAI artificial intelligence research company unveiled a bot that defeated one of the… Read More

Dota 2 AI

Elon Musk hails Dota 2 bot’s victory at The International, with OpenAI and Microsoft

The Dota 2 esports tournament in Seattle, known as The International, demonstrates how video games have become hugely popular team… Read More

Valve's 'The Artifact'

Valve announces new card game — and gets big groan from KeyArena crowd and the internet

Valve made a surprise announcement Tuesday about a new game coming in 2018 during The International, the “Dota 2” tournament… Read More

Why people love esports: Scenes from Valve’s huge $24M Dota 2 tournament

Why do people spend their hard-earned cash and travel from all around the world to Seattle, just to watch other… Read More

What to know about The International, Valve’s massive $24M esports tournament in Seattle

If you need another reminder of the massive growth of esports, head down to KeyArena in Seattle this week for… Read More

Valve reveals Steam’s monthly active user count and game sales by region

The world’s most powerful PC game distribution platform continues to expand its reach and grow its user base. Video-game giant… Read More

Inside the luxury apartments in the $1.2B Lincoln Square expansion: 10-year leases, $25k/month penthouses and a ‘tech concierge’

Kemper Development‘s Lincoln Square and Bellevue Square projects played an important role in Bellevue’s emergence as a city that attracts… Read More

Founder of Valve’s Steam platform just raised $1.25M for new startup Sharkbite Games

Rick Ellis has his fingerprints all over modern gaming. His chief claim to gaming fame is his role as founder… Read More

Valve is working on three new virtual reality games, ‘not just experiments’

Valve has been teasing virtual reality games since last year, but on Friday the Bellevue-based company finally gave details about… Read More

European Commission launches probe into Valve, other game publishers for alleged geo-blocking

The European Commission is targeting Bellevue, Wash.-based video game company Valve in a new antitrust probe, officials announced Thursday. The… Read More

Gabe Newell talks about the future of Valve and offers advice to game developers

Valve boss Gabe Newell took to Reddit for another ask-me-anything session Tuesday afternoon, as the video game legend answered questions… Read More

How a tech bust almost killed one of North America’s biggest real estate projects — and what saved it

Technology companies are flocking to Kemper Development Co.’s Lincoln Square expansion project in downtown Bellevue, Wash., from Valve to WeWork,… Read More

Valve fires back at Washington regulators over facilitation of ‘Counter Strike’ online gambling

Local gaming company Valve this week responded to claims made by the Washington State Gambling Commission that it facilitates the use of… Read More

VR and gaming giants Valve and Oculus ink big leases for industrial space in Seattle area

A pair of virtual reality/gaming companies are biting off huge chunks of industrial real estate east of Seattle, in an… Read More

This virtual reality company just moved to Seattle because it’s the ‘center of everything gaming and VR’

NullSpace VR wants to add a little more reality to the virtual reality experience. The company, founded by Morgan Sinko,… Read More

Seattle leading the way in VR as tech giants and startups wade into the emerging field

The Seattle area is rapidly becoming a leader in virtual and augmented reality, with tech giants, mid-sized companies and startups all… Read More

Washington regulators tell Valve to halt facilitation of ‘Counter Strike’ online gambling

The Washington State Gambling Commission has ordered Bellevue-based gaming company Valve to halt unregulated gambling taking place within its Counter Strike:… Read More

HTC launches Viveport VR store with apps for games, music, art, education and more

HTC Friday morning announced the global launch of Viveport, a virtual reality app store for the HTC Vive, after months of beta… Read More

Valve CEO Gabe Newell says he’s spending most of his time with virtual reality technology

A quick visit to Valve’s epic Dota 2 tournament this week in Seattle shows the company’s commitment to virtual reality technology.… Read More

Valve CEO Gabe Newell kicks off huge Dota 2 eSports championship; prize pool at $20M

“Welcome to The International!” Key Arena exploded with energy on Monday morning as Valve CEO Gabe Newell kicked off the… Read More

Valve leases nine floors in planned skyscraper, more than doubling its headquarters size

Gaming company Valve has leased approximately 225,000 square feet in the Lincoln Square expansion office tower that is under construction… Read More

Valve cracks down on third-party gambling sites using Steam

Bellevue-based Valve announced this week that it is sending cease-and-desist letters to third-party sites that use the company’s Steam gaming… Read More

‘Counter-Strike: Global Offensive’ gamer accuses Valve of enabling illegal online gambling

A suit filed by a gamer from Connecticut alleges that Valve Corp. “has been complicit in creating, sustaining and facilitating” online gambling on… Read More

Valve’s new VR test puts your PC through a virtual gauntlet ahead of HTC Vive launch

The cost of experiencing virtual reality is going to be high, not just because VR headsets cost upwards of $600, but also… Read More

HTC Vive VR headset pre-orders start February 29 as company shifts focus to virtual reality

You’ll be able to pre-order HTC’s virtual reality headset next month. HTC CEO Cher Wang told The Telegraph that her company… Read More

Valve fixes glitch that exposed Steam account information to other gamers

It was a scary Christmas Day for Steam, the popular gaming platform operated by Bellevue-based Valve. Users of the service… Read More

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