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  • Valve nukes Steam Box, working on new UI

    The beginning of the week brought reports that Valve was working on something called “Steam Box,” a list of hardware specs and associated software that manufacturers would turn around and build to sell under Valve’s certified label. Much like PC gamers would see their favorite titles branded by Nvidia or AMD, these rigs would feature…

  • Tribes: Ascend release date

    Hi-Rez Studios announced that Tribes: Ascend will be released on April 12, 2012! Check out their new trailer (parody of Dead Island):

  • GDC 2012: How Valve made Team Fortress 2 free-to-play

      In June of 2011, Valve Software took its four-year-old online first-person shooter Team Fortress 2 and made it completely free-to-play — and ended up increasing revenues by a factor of twelve as a result. Valve’s Joe Ludwig ran a GDC session Wednesday that explained exactly how four years’ worth of content updates, tweaks, and…

  • Gabe is more than fine… financially

    Forbes editors have decided to estimate Gabe Newell’s fortune recently. As you realize there’s a list with the richest people in the world on which Gabe turned out to be… 854. This may sound not that great right? But as it turns out, if he wanted to sell his shares to someone else, he would…

  • Valve patents for controller

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  • Valve said to be working on ‘Steam Box’ gaming console with partners, could announce at GDC

    Recently there’s been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business. Specifically, there have been rumors that the company has been toying with the idea of creating a proper set-top console which could potentially pose a threat to the Xbox 360…

  • Summing up the Coupons Giveaway

    You guys are weird :D We had around 600 coupons in the first place and 0 friends and now after whole giveaway thing and donations we have around… 900 and like 160 friends. Too bad they no longer work. Go ahead and keep us in your friends list, that account might giveaway random shit when…

  • Damn, check this out!

    You guys are unbelievable, I guess you DID need those coupons: So far we’ve added around 100 people.  We’re taking turns with Zuko, possibly someone else later on. We still have plenty coupons left (569! Wahhhh!?) – just add us and tell us what you want, but browse first. Remember that if you have any…

  • Coupons Giveaway

  • Russian Movement

    Hey guys! We are currently looking for trusted Russian contacts to help us out in our cause. If you have a trusted friend from Russia (money-wise) please provide them this e-mail address: russianmovement@steamunpowered.eu or ask them to add me on Steam (http://steamcommunity.com/id/stranded) so we could talk a little. Basically we need help with Russian payment…

  • Starbreeze looks for new employees… among pirates!

    At least some companies realize how to function these days (yes, I am talking to you Ubisoft). Starbreeze Studios, the makers of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and latest Syndicate is looking for new employees in a NFO file in Syndicate’s installation folder. The file is called Syndicate-SBZ.nfo and it contains info…

  • VALVe’s support: A player has FPS issues. A developer asks him to bring in his computer, so they can have a look.

      Source: Steam Forums

  • Alan Wake PC makes money back in 48 hours… thanks to Steam

      Remedy is very pleased with the performance of the PC version of Alan Wake. It turns out that they made back the money they invested on the PC version of Alan Wake in just 48 hours. “I wanted to chime in here. We are very happy with the sales and hitting #1 on Steam…

  • Penny Arcade goes to Valve Software headquarters

    See the pics here.

  • Gabe Newell grows a beard. That is all.

     Looks pretty badass to me: although a beard oil might do some good.

  • Message from Gabe

    Here’s a message from Gabe about the recent database leak: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users We continue our investigation of last year’s intrusion with the help of outside security experts. In my last note about this, I described how intruders had accessed our Steam database but we found no evidence that the intruders…

  • Assassin’s Creed, Might and Magic, Settlers unplayable during Ubisoft server switch

    Online modes for the majority of Ubisoft games will be impacted next week when the company moves its gaming servers. PC and Mac gamers will find several games completely unavailable online and offline. Ubisoft will start transitioning its online services from next Tuesday, 7th February. PC games scheduled to go dark include Tom Clancy’s HAWX…

  • Fans around the world to play Half-Life 2 this Saturday

    This Saturday the 28,000 members of this Steam group are planning to play Half-Life 2 together. The group hopes that the massive play session will shoot Half-Life 2 up the Steam most-played list and let Valve know how many people are still waiting for Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Valve certainly know this already, and probably…

  • Steam Mobile beta giveaway begins soon!

    To participate simply join our Steam Group and wait for the announcement.

  • Steam app comes from many direct requests from Steam users

    Gabe Newell said that it’s going to be a great addition and was a result of many direct requests from their customers. “The Steam app comes from many direct requests from our customers,” he said “Seeing which of your friends are online and playing a game, sending quick messages, looking at screenshots for an upcoming…

  • Screenshots from Steam for Android BETA

    I got into beta (lucky me!) and here are some screenshots of the application:

  • Official Steam app for your mobile device now available!

    Get Steam app for your mobile device now! The only bad thing is you need an invite:

  • ACTA – another offensive against the freedom on the Internet

    Hey guess what!? Now European Wikipedia (after the US Wikipedia yesterday) will have to demonstrate another blackout pretty soon. The plan is simple, sometime in January 2012 most of European Union countries is probably going to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a very controversial international agreement aimed at extermination of piracy and counterfeiting. Information…

  • Short message to forum users

    Hi guys! I just have a short announcement to all of you posting on our forums. Please do not call any CD-Key store/seller/company a scammer, fraud or thief without providing any actual evidence. Feel free to post screenshots of your chats with them, PayPal transfers, messages, e-mails etc. That would be all. From now on…

  • Ubisoft’s idiotic DRM strikes again!

    If you were planning to buy Anno 2070, you should know that it is limited to only 3 activations and if you replace your, say, graphics card more than thrice, you can say goodbye to the game. What exactly is Ubisoft’s thought process behind such a strategy for the PC market? Yes, we know they…