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Tag: Valve

  • Bored? Game! – Portal

    Aperture Science accepts no responsibility for arguments or loss of life during this board game.

  • New Valve Steam Controller Details

    The recent announcements from Valve that they have 65 million user accounts, then that they will be launching their own operating system, SteamOS, have been overshadowed with confirmation that they will be producing their own hardware platforms and controllers. According to Valve’s Greg Coomber, the controller represents a radical departure from the existing methods of…

  • Valve’s latest announcement: The Steam Controller

    Last week was pretty busy for Valve, the company had three announcements to give us a taste of their plan to expand the Steam Universe. The week started with the reveal of SteamOS, Valve’s very own standalone Linux-based OS followed by the news of new hardware, the Steam Machines and their prototype boxes. The last announcement came…

  • Valve Announce Multiple SteamOS Designed Machines

    After this week’s earlier announcement that Valve where releasing their own operating system fans began to wonder about the long rumoured – and kind of confirmed – Steam Box. Today those rumours have been officially and properly confirmed for a 2014 release. Dubbed as Steam Machines, these pieces of hardware will come in many flavours…

  • Valve reveals its own Linux-based OS

    Last week, Valve had promised that it will be making three announcements regarding its project to expand the Steam Universe, a countdown showing when the informations will be revealed has even been set up on a website. Today, the first announcement was made public, “Steam is coming to a new operating system“, SteamOS. In a…

  • Left 4 Dead 3 changelog snapped in Valve offices

    DOTA 2 players competing in The International got a little more out of their tour of the Valve offices than was intended when it turned out one of them had snapped a changelog mentioning “L4D3” on a monitor. A clear reference made to Left 4 Dead 3 then, but keep in mind that Valve are…

  • Pipe Dreams – E3 2012 Edition

    It’s that glorious time of year where E3 is nearly upon us again. Which leaves people, like me, wondering just what glorious treasures are soon to be unearthed and presented to us. Luckily for me I don’t need to wait, because this is Pipe Dreams and I do not work here on rumours or leaks,…

  • A Stocking Full of Coal

    Christmas time is always a joyous time for PC gamers. During the festive season, the good people at Valve go bonkers and drastically reduce the price of selected games as part of the Christmas Sale. And don’t go thinking that it’s only mediocre games getting a price slash. Last year, quality titles including, but not…

  • Free to Grow

    It’s difficult to think of a AAA release that has had as much post-release, official developer support as Team Fortress 2. While the practice of free, regular updates is fairly common with iOS games and indie titles – where developers try hard to retain and expand smaller audiences – when it comes to the big-hitters,…