Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative Begins May 8
A free Portal 2 DLC update hits Steam May 8, giving players access to a puzzle creator.
The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook
Valve recently released its Handbook for New Employees which does a great job of explaining the culture at the incredibly successful development studio. We've taken the most valuable lessons from the guide and collected them here for all other game developers to learn from.
Waveform proves you don’t need guns to save the galaxy (review)
Our solar system is being consumed by a singularity and it’s your job to save it — not with bullets, magic spells, or superpowers,...
Valve “Steam Box” console rumor sounds like a bad idea
Valve is working on a new set-top gaming system standard based on PC architecture dubbed “Steam Box,” according to a report published by website...
Modern Warfare 3 goes free-to-play for a limited time
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the best-selling anything ever, is now free on Steam until Sunday afternoon. With roughly 10 trillion copies sold...
Valve’s digital distribution kingdom by the numbers (Steam-powered infographic)
VideoGameDesignSchools.org has crafted a slick infographic detailing Valve’s conquest of the digital distribution market. It should come as no surprise that Steam is doing...
Bethesda: Over 2 million Skyrim mods downloaded in one week
Over 2 million PC players have downloaded mods for Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim since the launch of the Skyrim Workshop on digital download service Steam...
Valve’s Gabe Newell offers update on Steam security breach
Back in November, we learned that Valve’s online game-distribution service, Steam, had suffered a security breach. A letter to Steam users from co-founder and...
Trip the light fantastic in indie video game Waveform
When video game programmer and designer Ryan Vandendyck set out to start a new project in the summer of 2009, the idea was simple:...
Steam game service doubles sales, reaches 5M concurrent users
Valve disclosed its Steam digital game distribution service has increased sales by more than 100 percent for the seventh year in a row. Steam...