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Gabe Newell Foresees A Slew Of Living Room Gaming PCs (Including One From Valve?) In 2013
I don’t normally expect much to come out of Spike TV’s annual Video Game Awards, but Kotaku managed to score a gem of an interview with Valve co-founder and managing…
Steam Starts Selling Windows Apps Just Before Windows Store Launch
As anticipated in August, digital game seller Steam is now offering Windows non-game applications. It acts like a traditional app store. After the reviewing process, apps are available to purchase…
Steam Mobile Apps Graduate From Beta, Now Open To All Gamers
I know I say this a lot, but man that was fast. Valve’s new pair of Steam mobile apps have been in their respective marketplaces for less than a week,…
Steam Takes First Steps Into Mobile With iOS And Android Apps
As a gamer with admittedly poor impulse control, the newly-released Steam app for iOS and Android has me very worried. On the one hand, it seems like an ideal way…
PSA: Steam Hacked, User Info May Be Stolen, But Personal Data Safe
Valve CEO Gabe Newell has contacted all users of the Steam game distribution platform to let them know that the company has suffered a security breach. The hack was originally…
GameFly, Inc To Launch Windows/Mac Digital Distribution Gaming Storefront This Holiday Season
GameFly just made the first step towards a future void of physical media with the pre-announcement of an upcoming digital gaming distribution platform. The announcement is missing any real details,…
If you were hoping to pick up a copy of Crysis 2 on Steam, you’re out of luck. The game is no longer available on Valve’s download service, though it…
Say Hello To EA's New Online Direct-To-Consumer Gaming Platform 'Origin'
Electronic Arts is today debuting Origin, a direct-to-consumer gaming platform, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. According to the placeholder website, expect Origin to go live around 9…
Attention! Valve has announced exactly how Portal 2’s Steam features will work on the PS3. PS3 gamers can look forward to cross-platform (with the PC) matchmaking and gameplay, real-time chat,…
It looks like Steam users will soon be able to record in-game video without the help of something like Fraps. So says a post nestled inside the forums.
The NPD Group, the organization that tracks sales data for the video game industry in North America, says that it plans to track digital sales data in the future. It’s…
AT&T will impose a 250GB data cap for users of its DSL service. The company says that, based on trials, it only expects that less than 2 percent of its…
Valve's Steam Guard: Protecting Your Account From Evildoers Since 2011
Valve has officially announced Steam Guard, which is a new form “user rights management” in the words of Gabe Newell. There were all sorts of rumors about it yesterday, but…
Portal 2 may be coming to the PS3 and bringing cross-platform play and some Steam elements with it, but the Steam interface is really designed for mouse navigation, not analog…
Here’s an interesting figure: Valve makes more money per employee than Google or Apple. While we can easily figure out how much the publicly traded Google and Apple make per…
Valve has released the details surrounding pre-ordering Portal 2. The game is available for pre-order right now on Steam (and other retailers), and if you pre-order the game they’ll knock…
Report: Canada's Usage-Based Billing Scheme To Be Overturned
Canada’s Internet innovation-killing usage-based billing scheme may already be dead in the water. The Toronto Star says the decision has been made to reverse the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s…
Usage-Based Billing Hits Canada: Say Goodbye To Internet Innovation [Updated: UBB A No-Go?]
O, Canada, what have you done? The country’s Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the CRTC, has passed sweeping new regulations that will force Internet Service Providers to switch to so-called usage-based…
What Good Are Download-Only Services If You Have A Rubbish Internet Connection?
It’s hardly a secret that many of us here are big fans of Steam, Valve’s digital download service that makes buying PC games pretty painless. Who among us hasn’t spent…
Portal 2 PS3 Edition To Have Cross-Platform Play, Other Steam Features
Nice, it looks like the PS3 version of Portal 2 won’t stink on ice—something that can’t be said about the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2. (Though that’s hardly…
Not to alarm you all, but Steam has just started its annual Holiday sale. There’s a new user interface going on and I have no idea how to navigate it.…
In walks Steam, trying to build an actual community around its handy little platform. It’s called the Great Steam Treasure Hunt, and it’ll have players doing all sorts of fun,…
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages: THERE’S A STEAM SALE~!
Steam Causes Game Publisher To Run Out Of Product Key (But Everything's OK Now)
A funny thing happened at the weekend. One of the Steam deals was for Risen, an RPG that came out in 2009. I hear it’s pretty good, actually. Well, at…
UK Retailers Threaten To Ban Publishers That Use Steam – Good Luck With That
Some people just won’t accept their obsolescence quietly. A number of game retailers in the UK are outraged that their customers might get games from the secure and convenient Steam…
Happy Halloween! Why not celebrate with a brand new game or two (or three) courtesy of Steam. If the game is scary, features zombies, or ghosts, it’s probably on sale. I…
Call Of Duty: Black Ops Can Be Pre-Ordered On Steam Right Now (And It Uses Steamworks)
A fancy e-mail just arrived in my inbox, which is 94 percent full right now, saying that the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops is now available for…
Fallout: New Vegas Shows The Danger Of Leaning Too Heavily On The Cloud
Bethesda released Fallout: New Vegas for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC yesterday. The reviews fill me with great hope, particularly Canard PC’s take. (Canard PC was one of the…
Steam *Steams Ahead* With 200 Percent Sales Growth In Past Year
Lest any of you doubt the raw power of Steam, the latest numbers should, um, erase that doubt. Yes, that’ll do. Valve says that Steam has seen 178 percent new…
Days Before Medal Of Honor Release, Modern Warfare 2 & Map Packs On Sale On Steam
A certain video game that once upon a time featured the Taliban has leaked. I only bring this up because this prompted me to check Steam to see how much…