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  • Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!

    Steam Daily deals on 28-29.12.2011 (Prices may change during the day)

  • Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!

    List of things to watch out for is here, thanks to Vogel again – Steam Daily deals on 27.12.2011.

  • Is Valve turning into EA in terms of banning?

    Interesting info was posted on reddit today, according to one of the users he got banned by Mike Blaszczak (Valve employee) on the official Steam Forums for a suggestion he made towards his behavior on the forums, here’s the full story: I’ll try to keep this as short as possible. Someone posted a thread in…

  • Watch out for the current Steam Daily deals!

    List of things to watch out for is here, thanks to Vogel again – Steam Daily deals on 26.12.2011.

  • Steam gets support for tradable discount coupons

    According to a new FAQ, Steam now supports coupons. These tickets will sit in your inventory, and can be traded. Each coupon can be used on one game, but it doesn’t look as though they’ll operate as general Steam gift vouchers. The FAQ mentions that each one can be tailored to offer discounts on a…

  • Gabe Newell: Piracy is a “Non-issue” to Valve; Providing better Services Will Result in More Sales

    In a recent interview with TCS, Gabe Newell explained why Valve is so successful. Recently we posted how Ubisoft were abandoning the PC market due to piracy, and imposing heavy DRM on their customers, but according to Newell that’s not really the right way to go about it. He said that there is a general…

  • Steam database compromised, what now?

    Check this e-mail from Gabe: Edit: It turns out it’s probably fake but we’ll see:  

  • Happy Birthday to Gabe Newell!

    After having dropped out of Harvard University Newell spent thirteen years working for Microsoft Corporation, ultimately becoming a "Microsoft Millionaire". Newell has described himself as "producer on the first three releases of Windows". Inspired by Michael Abrash, who left Microsoft to work on the computer game Quake at id Software, Newell and another Microsoft employee,…

  • Gabe Newell on pricing and free to play

    Gabe Newell discussed the difference between silently discounting a game and making a big sale. When they quietly lowered prices, they found it to be elastic (sales increase proportionally, so the overall revenue remains the same), but… “The sale is a highly promoted event that has ancillary media like comic books and movies associated with…

  • DOTA 2 massive leak

    One of the guys who got into DOTA 2 beta has decided to share with the rest of the world by leaking the client to the public. Most notable are some strings found in the game’s files that point to a microtransaction driven, free-to-play model similar to what Valve’s own Team Fortress 2 currently employs.…

  • Valve will be attending this year’s Gamescom! What will they reveal?

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  • SavyGamer » APB Steam Refund

      APB Steam refund update 25/09/2010 in Digital Distribution, News If you bought APB from Steam, apparently EA are now offering a free game as a refund. Valve put up a brick wall, but EA are making up for the fact that customer who bought their game ended up with nothing to show for it.…

  • Molyneux’s son asks for Half-Life 3

    Peter Molyneux’s (the maker of Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and a lot more games) son asks for Half-Life 3:

  • Steam Wallet Beta Now Available

    The Steam Wallet, Steamworks’ newest feature, is now available for public testing. With Steam Wallet, you can add value to your Steam account using any of the payment methods supported by Steam. Funds in your Steam Wallet may then be used to buy any item available on the Steam store, or combined with other payment…

  • Valve wants Left 4 Dead 3

    As Gabe Newell told in last PC Gamer magazine issue Valve Software is going to release another Left 4 Dead game “quickly and unpredictably”… “I’m convinced that at some point we will do it again” said Newell. Gabe claims that shocking their fans gives them a lot of fun but it’s also very scary. Why…

  • Valve Software is interested in DOTA trilogy?

    Apprently Valve is about to release their “version” of DOTA very soon, they already registered the DOTA mark (see here) and few hours ago they registered DOTA 1 and DOTA 2 marks. Do you think Valve should produce the whole trilogy? I personally think that’s not such a good idea because I don’t want another…

  • Team 17 combines with Valve Software for TF2 items!

    Team17 and Valve Software bring you bonus Team Fortress 2 items if you buy Worms Reloaded prior to Thursday Sept 2nd!

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  • Portal 2 Gets a Date

    Portal 2 Gets a Date

    9 February 2011 [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Valve has finally confirmed a release date for the upcoming Portal sequel known as Portal 2. While we knew that it would be arriving in 2011, many might…

  • Eureka! Steam client tabbed chat! UPDATE!

    UPDATE! They guys at Steam listened to us users and added with today’s Steam Client update friends chat with automatic tabbed chat. While they were at it, they added tabbed browsing to the in-game overlay browser as well! The same hotkeys you use in Firefox/Internet Explorer to navigate tabs works in Steam too. Steam client…

  • Steam is forcing Apple to fix graphics issues on Mac

    Apple has got the message and has provided a graphics update for OS X Snow Leopard which will go some way towards closing the gap between the two platforms. “When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the…

  • Defense of the Ancients…by Valve Software?

    According to Jon St. John – an American voice actor who provided the voice for numerous video game characters, most notably Duke Nukem – Valve is currently working on Defense of the Ancients (commonly known as DOTA) game. Here’s his Twitter post:   JSJakaDukeNukem Twitter profile According to Wikipedia it is true: “In October 2009,…

  • Eureka! Steam client tabbed chat!

    Enable the latest Steam Beta to access this highly desired feature – tabbed chat! Although it’s lacking few things like automatically open the incoming chat message as new tab or middle clicking to close the chat tab, I’m sure they will work on it asap. Here’s the changelog: 7/23/2010 Tabbed user chat / web browser…

  • Alien Swarm coming this Monday FREE on Steam!

    Alien Swarm is a game created by Valve – mostly by people who were hired from the mod community. The game will be absolutely free! You will have to kill thousands of alien scum with your friends in order to complete the game – the game has 4 player co-op. You will be able to…