Category Archives: Valve

Valve’s included a search functionality for Steam Workshop as part of a new update. The Workshop itself is now a top-level menu item in the community part of Steam. There’s a full list of changes here.

Fear not, Internet denizens; Steam’s brief failure was nothing sinister.

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Valve has sent out an email, letting Steam forum and service users know, that it has still found no evidence that the intrusion last year resulted in any data theft.

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Blizzard has brought a case to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Trial and Appeal Board challenging Valve’s right to trademark the word DOTA.

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Fiddling around with the console in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, one user found clues suggesting Valve may have built more than a cool unique object with its first mod for the Bethesda RPG.

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One of the first mods to roll off the assembly line enabled by the recently-released Skyrim Creation Kit is a neat little effort by Valve, celebrating the modding community’s intended close relationship with Steam Workshop. The Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1 adds the Space-loving Portal 2 core as a companion, and apparently also Nolan North.

Thanks, GameInformer.

This weekend’s action to protest Valve’s lack of communication over Half-life 3 was something of a blow out.

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On the market for a highly specific gaming awards ceremony? The very first New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards has you covered.

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In a post on the Team Fortress 2 blog, Valve has teased a number of planned updates for the coming year. The publisher plans to hold its second annual Saxxy Awards; has launched a Steam Workshop blog; and will release a new “Meet The” short for the Pyro. Most excitingly, there’s “something brand new” in the works for the game. No hints were dropped except that it’s not a hat, a map, or a hat-map hybrid. Team Fortress 2 is one of the most successful squad multiplayer shooters, and went free-to-play last year. It’s available for PC and Mac via Steam.

Thanks, Kotaku.

The iOS and Android Steam app, announced last week, is now openly available. Launched last week in a closed beta, it allows you to chat with Steam friends, browse community groups and user profiles, view screenshots and user-generated content and all the rest of it. It’s free: install it.

The Steam group “A Call for Communication”, which currently boasts 29,617 members, will be playing Half-Life 2 simultaneously on Saturday, February 4, from 11:00am until 11:30am PST in order to try and get Valve to announce anything pertaining to Half-Life Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 – if either exists. “Instead of focusing efforts in a negative and disrespectful way, we have decided to gain Valve’s attention by delivering a basic message: Your oldest and longest running fanbase would like better communication,” reads the message from the group. Earlier this month, the group had over 10,000 members join its ranks, and now that the number is pushing the 30,000 mark, hopefully Valve will take notice. Thanks, Ripten. [pic]

RPS has noted that Valve has made its games available on GameStop download service Impulse. The marketplace, which was owned by Stardock up until last year when it was bought by GameStop, now has five titles from the company: Portal 2, The Half-Life Complete Collection, Left 4 Dead 1 + 2 and The Orange Box, all of which end up requiring Steam activation anyways. Still, your options on where to buy Valve games has become more broader now.

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Valve has announced the beta release of the Steam application for iOS and Android devices.

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Kotaku‘s got a small gallery of images reportedly pulled from the Counter-strike: Global Offensive beta, which purportedly reference Half-life, among other Valve games. Before you get too excited, Steam forum users have known about these for a while, and haven’t uncovered an AR puzzle or any concrete teases, so it seems Valve may just be making some in-jokes of the kind which wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow at another company. Still, they’re kind of cool – go look. Global Offensive is expected to launch in the first half of the year, for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

A member group on Steam that has demanded more communication from Valve over the future of the Half-Life series has already hit 10,000 members in three weeks.

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If you fire up Saints Row: The Third on Steam, you’ll be treated to an exclusive free bonus – nine masks depicting your favourite Team Fortress 2 classes. The oversized masks look a little like mascot heads, and will be available upon application of a compatibility patch.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Valve has announced 2011 growth data for its Steam service, citing a year-over-year unit sales increase of over 100% for the seventh straight year.

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Steam has past the 5 million concurrent user mark, Valve said today. The most popular game right now on the service, which has 35 million users and 1,800 games on sale, is The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, followed by Team Fortress 2 and Counter Strike.

Thanks, CVG.

The details of Steam’s annual holiday sale and its ridiculously generous freebies will excite you so much that you’ll join the queues of people hammering “refresh” on the service’s unsurprisingly hammered storefront.

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But some people are apparently into that sort of thing. The level of detail on this figure is incredible, and we really can’t imagine who would want to have this on display in their home/office. But in this case it’s a sort of horrifying beauty. Full picture after the break. More »