Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops King of the Kill as Steam’s latest flavor of the month
The PC gaming community on Steam often moves from one game to another as a group, and where that used to mean survival games...
Kalypso’s quiz companion app is a novel way to promote a strategy game
If you know your World War II history, Kalypso Media wants to give you a way to show off your knowledge and a way...
H1Z1: King of the Kill’s active player count has grown 1,000% since September
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...
Amazon’s Twitch will begin selling games alongside live video
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...
Valve’s Steam Audio will bring better sound to games and VR
Valve today released a new tool called Steam Audio that represents the fruit of its purchase of Impulsonic in January. The tech promises sound...
Valve cares about PC gamers, but struggles to show it
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...
Gabe Newell shares how Hollywood types have trouble adjusting to Valve
A lot of different kinds of people work at Valve, but one group may have difficulty fitting in at first. People who shift from...
How Valve is taking a Nintendo-like approach to virtual reality
Valve is building hardware for virtual reality, and it’s taking cues from one of the console industry’s brightest minds. VR is still in its...
Gabe Newell admits ‘childish’ Valve employees egg on Half-Life 3 rumors
Half-Life 3 is a mythological beast. Most people know it’s not real, but you’ll never convince a handful of dedicated investigators who pour over...
Valve won’t manually curate Steam because it dominates PC gaming
Valve is evolving how developers can get onto its Steam store to sell PC games, and one of the reasons it’s doing that is...