Microsoft is pushing hard to breathe life into its own app store, sometimes to the great annoyance of gamers who wonder why we can’t all just learn to stop worrying and love Steam. But in an interview on the Giant Bomb livestream last night (via GameSpot), Xbox boss Phil Spencer said Microsoft isn’t done with […]
In less than seven months after Valve released the Steam Controller, it has hit a major milestone: It sold over half a million units of the controller. Since its launch, Valve continued to add various features to the peripheral, but it seems that more is on the way. At the top of the list is continued […]
The Battle Pass for the Dota 2 International 2016 is here, and it contains a whole lot of stuff. If you don’t know what it is, the Battle Pass grants you a bunch of in-game items, plus you can level it up in order to unlock even more. This is done by completing quests, winning […]
Dota 2 is about to undergo significant changes in the form of the 6.87 gameplay update revealed by Valve earlier today. Foremost among them is a change to Ranked All Pick that incorporates the addition of a 15-second “voting phase” which will take place ahead of the picking phase. Each player will vote for a different […]
Valve Corporation and Lionsgate have formed a ground-breaking partnership under which Lionsgate has become one of the first major studios to license films to Valve’s popular Steam digital distribution platform, the two companies announced today. The deal reflects Lionsgate’s commitment to monetize its content across an expanding array of digital platforms by offering its movies, television programming […]
Despite the high-level Dota on display, the Shanghai Major is remembered as the hottest mess. Chris detailed what went wrong in a post worthy of its own leather-bound tome, but the highlights include starving talent, a manager trapped in a lift, a missing keyboard and the audience being ordered to vacate the premises. The drama peaked with the […]
Back in the summer of 2014, Valve was dragged into court by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for refusing to offer refunds on Steam. The complaint said Valve made “false or misleading representations” to Steam users in Australia, including that they were not entitled to a refund under any circumstances, and that Valve itself […]
Back in 2013, J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell shared the stage at the DICE Summit where they announced a joint partnership between Bad Robot and Valve where the two would be working not only on a game idea together, but also films, namely Half-Life and Portal movies. Since then, there have been little developments on […]
The HTC-Valve partnership, which uncloaked last spring to reveal the pair working on a virtual reality experience called Vive, continues to push towards a consumer release — with their VR headset slated to ship in April 2016 — hotfooting it after rival headset Oculus Rift, due to start shipping to consumers from March. HTC has […]
Marc Laidlaw, the esteemed sci-fi writer who has worked at Half-Life developer Valve since 1997, has confirmed his retirement from the Bellevue, Washington studio. He was the sole writer for both Half-Life 1 and 2, and had crafted each game’s wider narrative. Later, he was assigned as lead writer on Half-Life 2 Episode 1 and […]
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