Tag: valve
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EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000
Electronic Arts has reportedly been making a play to purchase Half-Life and Portal studio Valve. The New York Times reports that EA has sought to purchase the firm for years, valuing the company at well over $1 billion. Valve isn’t likely to sell to anyone anytime soon. According to "people with knowledge of the…
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Steam’s Big Picture
That is all.
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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…
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Valve to start selling non-game software on Steam!
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RUMOR: Source 2 engine coming soon!
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Steam Summer Sale: Full list of Bundles/Packs
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What’s yours is not yours
Last week the European Parliament stated that it’s illegal to not let customers resell their own software, even if it’s been bought on a digital delivery platform. What Valve answered, about the chance to let customers resell their legally bought software, is basically a very simple, direct, straight middle finger. “We don’t have any…
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Valve counters EA’s Steam sales "cheapen intellectual property" accusation
"If we thought having a 75 per cent sale on Portal 2 would cheapen Portal 2, we wouldn’t do it." Valve has countered EA’s accusation that Steam sales "cheapen" intellectual property, saying they in fact benefit games, publishers and gamers. Last month EA’s David DeMartini, who runs rival digital platform Origin, said Steam sales, which…
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Steam Greenlight announced!
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – $15 on all platforms!
Valve has just announced the launch date of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: August 21. They’ve also mentioned that CS:GO will cost $15 “on all platforms.” I’m happy that Valve is not using the 1€ = $1 scheme, lets just hope they will keep their word.
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Valve Confirms: No new product announcements at E3
Valve has confirmed to IGN that it will not be announcing any new projects at this year’s E3. Previously, a great deal of speculation has surrounded the announcement of Half-Life 3, among other projects. The Half-Life franchise was last seen in 2007 with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in The Orange Box. At…
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Canonical in touch with Valve to ensure Steam is well supported on Ubuntu
Lots of Steam on Linux news this week after Michael Larabel visited Valve office and confirmed Steam and Source Engine on Linux. Now, in a Live QA session for Ubuntu 12.04 release, Ubuntu Developer and Community Manager Jono Bacon said that he knows Canonical has been in touch with Valve to ensure top…
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Valve’s new business model – pay less if you’re nice?
This one is interesting, Valve is trying to charge morons and jerks more for their games, nice people would pay less or play for free even. In a podcast interview with Seven Day Cooldown, summarized by Develop, Valve Boss Gabe Newell discusses the payment model for upcoming strategy game DOTA 2.: “The issue that we’re…
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Valve updates Steam’s account policy, you can now access your games while banned!
I can’t believe they finally did it. A lot of gamers were questioning why it wasn’t possible to access games in offline mode in Steam while an account was suspended or banned, but the real news is that you already can, Valve just never told anyone. What’s more? Your games aren’t limited to offline mode.…
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Valve’s handbook for new employees
This thing leaked few hours ago, check it out, it’s a fun thing to read!
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Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”
“Gabe Newell denied meeting Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple in a recent podcast with Seven Day Cooldown, but that’s not all he said. He also mentioned that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play, but with a twist. “It’s going to be free-to-play — it’ll have some twists, but that’s the easiest way for people to…
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Valve reveals mystery hardware project: wearable computing
“This morning, Valve Software set the world of gaming news abuzz by attempting to hire hardware engineers. Now, Valve developer (and well-known programmer) Michael Abrash has revealed what kind of hardware the company is prototyping: computer technology you can wear. It’s certainly an important time to admit such a thing, considering how Google’s Project Glass…
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Steam soon to introduce used game selling and new refund policy!
YES! Finally Valve Software has decided that soon all Steam users will be able to sell or give away their own “used” games off their Steam accounts. Here is what Gabe Newell said: “We are happy to announce that soon (May 1st) all Steam users who bought at least one game using Steam will be…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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
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Penny Arcade goes to Valve Software headquarters
See the pics here.
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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…