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APB Reloaded: Turning a game that killed a studio into a 3-million-user success (interview)

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 15, 2012
6 min

APB Reloaded is proving that positive reviews and long-term success don't necessarily go hand-in-hand, as it flies in the face of criticism from the gaming press and continues to gain new users on a near day-to-day basis.

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Portal 2 Perpetual Testing Initiative Begins May 8

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 26, 2012
1 min

A free Portal 2 DLC update hits Steam May 8, giving players access to a puzzle creator.

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1 min

The four lessons other developers can learn from the Valve employee handbook

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
April 24, 2012
4 min

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.

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4 min

Waveform proves you don’t need guns to save the galaxy (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 20, 2012
3 min

Our solar system is being consumed by a singularity and it’s your job to save it — not with bullets, magic spells, or superpowers,...

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3 min

Valve “Steam Box” console rumor sounds like a bad idea

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 3, 2012
2 min

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...

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2 min

Modern Warfare 3 goes free-to-play for a limited time

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 16, 2012
1 min

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...

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1 min

Valve’s digital distribution kingdom by the numbers (Steam-powered infographic)

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 16, 2012
1 min

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...

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Bethesda: Over 2 million Skyrim mods downloaded in one week

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 14, 2012
1 min

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...

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Valve’s Gabe Newell offers update on Steam security breach

Posted byby GamesBeat
February 10, 2012
2 min

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...

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2 min

Trip the light fantastic in indie video game Waveform

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 16, 2012
3 min

When video game programmer and designer Ryan Vandendyck set out to start a new project in the summer of 2009, the idea was simple:...

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3 min