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Valve/HTC Vive announce $799 Launch Price, Preorder Date
The Valve/HTC joint virtual reality hardware project, the Vive, was announced yesterday for consumers with a $799 launch price. Preorders will start February 29th at 10am Eastern Standard Time. The Vive comes with two handheld ...
Report: Valve's Steam PC Getting 2013 Reveal, Runs On Linux
According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company’s long-awaited “Steam Box” custom PC/console/thing will ...
The Smartest & Dumbest Things Valve Did in 2012
Oh, Valve. If a company is doing this well, then you know there must be something incredibly sinister going on beneath the surface. I considered trying to infiltrate the shadowy ranks of Valve to uncover their origins (subterra...
Steam Wants To Take On GameFAQs, Testing "Game Guides"
Valve began rolling out a new Steam beta feature today: game guides. The aim is exactly what you’re thinking it is. Anyone can make a guide, and they’ll be accessible on a game’s “hub” page, as you...
Gabe Newell: Living Room PCs Will Compete With Next-Gen Consoles
Steam’s Big Picture mode was just the first step: according to Valve boss Gabe Newell, you’ll be able to buy a living-room-friendly PC package next year. Speaking to me during a brief interview on the red carpet at ...
Here Are the Winners of the 2012 Saxxys for Excellence in Team Fortress 2 Movie-Making
Two weeks ago Valve opened voting on the second annual Saxxy Awards, celebrating cinematography in Team Fortress 2 and the Source Filmmaker tool released earlier in the year. Last night, voting ended, and winners in four catego...
Valve Writer Picks the Perfect Men For a Half-Life Movie
We chatted with film director Guillermo del Toro at the New York Comic-Con earlier this year, and he told us one of his dream jobs would be to make a movie with Valve. Turns out the feeling’s mutual. In an interview with ...
Steam Records Six Million People Playing PC Games At Once
If ever proof was needed of the strength of PC gaming circa 2012, and in particular the appeal of Valve’s Steam service, look no further than this: over the weekend, over six million people were playing PC games on Steam....
Next Year, Gabe Newell Becomes a Video Game Hall of Famer
John Carmack’s in there. Will Wright’s in there, too. So are Tim Sweeney, Peter Molyneux and Shigeru Miyamoto. And now Gabe Newell will be joining all of those video game luminaries in the Academy of Interactive Art...
