Category: Valve
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Steam now allows you to cancel your own pre-orders!
You can now cancel pre-orders without having to open a support ticket – just so long as the game hasn’t been released yet. Now, as the image above shows, you can initiate this process yourself with the newly added, and seemingly automated, ‘Refund an item’ link. It’s not clear yet whether you’ll be refunded in…
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Ricochet $1 / 1€ / 0,6£
This is some serious shit when you’re kinda drunk, bored or just want to shoot at your buddies. I used to play that few years ago, always laughed my ass off. Pretty cool game and with that price you can’t go wrong just make sure to have someone to play with otherwise you might be…
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Left 4 Dead 2 is now free on Steam
But all of Steam websites are dead now… Yay I guess. Nice move Valve. You can download it here when it comes back online.
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Steam: Linux client gets a major update!
All the penguins are happy today, check this out: The Steam client got a major update recently with some pretty needed features: On game launch, if there is an update available but we haven’t started downloading it yet, ask the user if they want to launch the existing bits or wait for the update. How…
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Steam keeps getting better, RAGE free weekend now live!
Well no no, not with prices duh. But the client itself just keeps getting better. For example they’ve recently added background downloading while playing a game which is a huge achievement I’ll give them that. They’ve also added few more new features such as: ability to limit what time of day Steam is allowed to automatically update…
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Valve invites developers to discuss and test Steam
Valve has announced a two-day game developer’s conference in Seattle called “Steam Dev Days” that will allow game creators from around the globe to speak in roundtable discussions, attend industry lectures, and test out SteamOS, the Steam Controller, and an assortment of Steam machines. Considering the event’s not being held until mid-January, it’s a safe…
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Steam Family Sharing Beta – Borrow and Share your Steam Game Library
Valve just announced a new cool upcoming feature. The Steam Family Sharing will allow you to share your Steam games with others on up to 10 different computers. That means, people will be able to play your games while using their own Steam accounts, on your local or a different computer. That sounds much like…
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GameFly redesigned, Valve games on sale up to 75%!
Check it out! Additionally they have some games on sale including Valve games, of course they are redeemable on Steam :)
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Steam – Summer Sales July 11th?
According to a Reddit user, he has been told by a Steam-Support representative that Valves yearly Summer Sale will start July 11th. Take this with a grain of salt, but better get your wallet ready to thrown at your display. Here a screenshot from the support ticket. If the sales happen likely start at…
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Valve on Virtual Reality: “it will take years, if not decades”
Those who’ve tried playing Team Fortress 2 with the Oculus Rift largely agree that it’s a game changer. Yet Valve’s tech-brain in chief, Michael Abrash, talked at GDC extensively about the challenges of developing working VR and especially AR systems, and what exactly technical advances we’ll need to get a more satisfactory VR system. Virtual…
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Steam launches Early Acces, new features for beta testers
Steam Early Access titles allow the community to get involved early and play select titles during their development. The goal of Early Access is to provide gamers with the chance to “go behind the scenes” and experience the development cycle firsthand and, more importantly, have a chance to interact with the developers by providing them…
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Valve’s business increased by 50 percent last year
Gabe Newell stepped up to the stage during last week’s BAFTA awards to receive the prestigious Academy Fellowship for his contributions to gaming. Newell credited Valve’s successes largely to user-generated content on open platforms such as Steam Workshop before sharing some jaw-dropping numbers. “There’s sort of an insatiable demand for gaming right now,” Newell said.…
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Valve fires few people, including Jason Holtman
Here’s some sad (?) news. Copy pasta from Gamasutra: Several employees were let go from Steam andHalf-Life maker Valve on Tuesday. The lay offs affected couple of employees (approx. 25) describing the incident include “great cleansing” and “large decisions.” Affected employees were asked not to speak about specifics, but the impression we get is that…
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German consumer federation goes to court war with Valve
Sorry I didn’t post this earlier but now it’s here, check this out, finally someone BIG is going after Valve, Steam and it’s subscriber agreement. Can’t wait to see how this turns out! The Federation of German Consumers Association (VZBV) has taken issue with Valve and Steam. The VZBV tried to get Valve to allow…
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Valve Pushes Out Half-Life For Linux
Valve has ported Half-Life to Linux. If you already own Half-Life on Steam just open it up on Linux and you can download it without any additional fees. If you didn’t buy the game a decade ago, Valve still sells Half-Life on Steam for a price of $9.99 (in USA). The Linux port of this…
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New Steam Community Feature Beta – Game Guides
Check out new Steam Community feature – Game Guides! Steam Community Announcement
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Steam for Linux open beta coming next week
Steam for Linux will be available for everyone to try next week! The list of available games on Steam for Linux users: Amnesia Dynamite Jack Eversion iBomber Attack Killing Floor Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 Serious Sam 3:BFE Sword & Sworcery The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles World of Goo Source: OMG Ubuntu
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European Commission responds: If Valve decides to offer a product solely within the UK this does generally not amount to an infringement of EU competition rules
I’ve just received a response from the European Commission (it’s weird because I did not send them an e-mail but a physical letter) and you guys are not gonna like it: … Thank you for your e-mail regarding Valve corporation. We note that, in substance, the concerns you have raised are to do with the…
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Valve will release its own console with Linux based Steam on board
At last night’s Video Game Awards, Gabe Newell confirmed the company’s plans to sell its own living room PC that could compete with next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft. The biggest revelation is that Valve seems set to release its own complete hardware and software solution. Newell says that he expects companies to start selling…
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Next-Gen Valve engine is officially in development!
Gabe Newell officially confirmed on this video that the new Source Engine 2 is in development, check it out:
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Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application
Valve is looking for Linux gamers to install and test their new Steam for Linux client. They are, however, primarily interested in experienced Linux users. Get access to the beta now!
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Steam browser vulnerability puts users at risk
The steam:// URL is a quick way to install and launch games from a browser. Hardware and software security company Revuln pointed out that Safari can launch steam:// commands silently without the user knowing, providing a window of opportunity for attackers. The report highlights ways in which local processes that exist on our PCs as…
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Valve wants you!
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Steam for Linux coming in 2013
Valve is expected to have the initial Steam Linux client available along with the Left 4 Dead 2 game in some form of beta soon, full-blown Linux push by Valve Software might not happen until around February of 2013. Valve has already been showing off Steam on Linux to partners and Left 4 Dead 2…