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H1Z1: King of the Kill’s active player count has grown 1,000% since September

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 15, 2017
2 min

Publisher Daybreak Games’ competitive zombie survival shooter has fought its way back to the top of Steam. H1Z1: King of the Kill’s number of...

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Amazon’s Twitch will begin selling games alongside live video

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 27, 2017
2 min

Twitch has an audience of millions of gamers, and now developers can sell games to those people right through the livestreaming video site. Amazon’s Twitch...

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Valve’s Steam Audio will bring better sound to games and VR

Posted byby Jason Wilson
February 25, 2017
2 min

Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound...

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Valve cares about PC gamers, but struggles to show it

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 21, 2017
10 min

I hadn’t even considered the possibility that Gabe Newell would be joining us. When Valve invited me to its office last week for a...

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10 min

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Gabe Newell shares how Hollywood types have trouble adjusting to Valve

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 21, 2017
2 min

A lot of different kinds of people work at Valve, but one group may have difficulty fitting in at first. People who shift from...

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How Valve is taking a Nintendo-like approach to virtual reality

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 14, 2017
3 min

Valve is building hardware for virtual reality, and it’s taking cues from one of the console industry’s brightest minds. Valve’s prototype grip controllers. VR...