GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
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.
Valve’s new pricing will charge players based on how much of a jerk they are
The folks over at Valve have cooked up a novel pricing model for the upcoming Defense of the Ancients 2. Managing director Gabe Newell says...
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.
Valve researcher focuses on wearable computing
Michael Abrash, a top video game technical expert, has begun a research project to create “wearable computing” for video game publisher Valve. Valve’s Abrash...
Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)
In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...
Which Hollywood actors would fill Dota 2’s cast? (image)
Valve’s Dota 2 has yet to be officially released, and the fans are apparently getting restless. Luckily, the fans also seem to be skilled...
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...
Meteor Entertainment raises $10M to fund Hawken online mech game (exclusive)
Meteor Entertainment has raised $10 million in a bid to launch a downloadable online game called Hawken. Aimed at hardcore gamers who battle each other...
Ridiculous: 300 Space Cores rolling down a mountain in Skyrim (video)
Now that Valve and Bethesda have teamed up to bring Portal 2’s Space Core to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the “arrow to the...