Valve Says Downloads Picked Up Steam in 2009
Steam, Valve’s platform for digital game sales, social networking and online matchmaking, grew by 25 percent last year, it said Friday. In 2009, gamers signed up for 25 million active Steam accounts,...
View ArticleValve’s Gabe Newell Has Emailed Wired.com a Picture
The following image showed up in my inbox tonight, courtesy Valve Software cofounder Gabe Newell. What do you make of it? If you want some hints, you might go check out this page at Valve ARG. The...
View ArticleOp-Ed: If You Want To Fight Piracy, Make Better Games
Game publishers have it backward. They should use the carrot, not the stick, and reward people for doing the right thing when it comes to buying versus pirating.
View ArticleValve: Hackers Accessed Steam Users’ Encrypted Passwords, Credit Cards
Hackers gained unauthorized access to user information on the digital videogame distribution service Steam last weekend, the company that runs the service has said.
View ArticleSpecial Feature | VR Headset Maker Oculus: Please, Don’t Back Our Kickstarter
Oculus Rift may be the first great virtual-reality headset, according to everyone that's tried it. You can order your own unit today by supporting the project on Kickstarter. But its maker would rather...
View ArticleIn the News | J.J. Abrams, Gabe Newell Team Up For Gaming Conference Keynote
Valve president Gabe Newell and Star Wars/Star Trek director J.J. Abrams will team up to deliver the opening keynote at the 2013 D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Summit on Feb. 6,...
View ArticleIn the News | Portal, the Movie: Valve, J.J. Abrams Team Up for Future Games,...
Valve, the game developer behind Half-Life and Portal, and J.J. Abrams' production studio Bad Robot will work together to produce games and movies, the heads of the two studios said at the DICE Summit...
View ArticleIn the News | Valve’s Newell: How PCs Will Take Over the Living Room
At the DICE Summit on Thursday, Valve CEO Gabe Newell laid out his vision for how the PC, as a gaming platform, can move into the living room.
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