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...
You could own every Steam game – if you’re the Grand Prize winner of the holiday sale
That’s right, as if you needed another incentive to make a few purchases during Steam’s infamous holiday sale, you now have the chance to...
Previously a dud, relaunched APB game gets 3 million users in a week
As one of a growing number of massively multiplayer online (MMO) games adopting a free-to-play strategy, APB Reloaded has hit a milestone of 3...
Indie game developers look to Steam on the PC — instead of Xbox Live — for commercial success
Independent video game developer Zeboyd Games recently announced sales of its Cthulhu Saves the World + Breath of Death VII combo pack sold over...