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US Travel Ban has Negatively Affected Valve Says Gabe Newell
Gabe Newell, the president of Valve, candidly spoke about the latest US travel ban in a roundtable with gaming journalists at their Bellevue, Washingon studio offices recently. President Donald Trump’s travel ban has hit Valve in two fronts according to Newell: employees and eSports. According to Newell, there are Valve…
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Hacker Apologises for 2003’s Half-Life 2 Leak
In October 2003, the source code for a game five years in the making leaked online. The game was Valve’s lauded FPS Half-Life 2, and the person responsible for the leak was a German man called Axel Gembe. Seven months later, Gembe was arrested in his hometown of Schönau im…
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JJ Abrams Comfirms Portal and Half-Life Movies Still Happening
During the press junket for Bad Robot’s latest horror suspense movie 10 Cloverfield Lane, the studio’s founder, director, writer, and producer JJ Abrams confirmed that film adaptations of the lauded Valve video games Half-Life and Portal are still in development, and both have writers attached. The Star Wars: The Force…
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Half Life 3 File Names Found in SteamVR Performance Tool
Yesterday, Valve released a performance utility which measures your system’s readiness for SteamVR. This tool scans your PC’s hardware configuration and provides a simple grading to inform the user about VR requirements in an easy to understand manner. The application contains various strings referring to Half Life 3 and could suggest the…
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Unity Vision Summit Attendees Receive Free HTC Vive
Virtual Reality is commonly perceived as the next step in entertainment and could revolutionize the way we all watch films, and play video games. Not only that, VR devices could theoretically be deployed in the medical profession to help diagnose patients from remote locations or instruct junior doctors how to…
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Dev Tweets Death Threat to Gabe Newell, Game Gets Removed from Steam
The developer of Paranautical Activity has been in the spotlight today, not for their mildly popular game, but for their complete inept ability to do business in a professional manner. The games creator Mike Maulbeck took to Twitter to vent his frustrations about the Steam platform and while I’m not saying…
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The Steam Summer Sale is LIVE!
Grab your wallets, throw money at your monitor, the Steam summer sale madness has begun! It’s running from today (19th) until the 30th June. Get ready for amazing bargains, insane flash sales and incredible daily deals! We can all guarantee that we’ll be broke by the time the sale has ended!…
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Leaked Presentation Reveals Source Engine 2.0, Half-Life 3 In The Works?
Rumors are that leaked screenshots of the Source 2.0 engine have surfaced from an allegedly confidential Valve Powerpoint presentation. Seems that the screenshots were posted by a reliable source, Neogaf user “CBOAT”, giving them some credibility. We can see that this is an updated version of the Plantation level from…
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Steam Passes 65 million User Milestone
In a recent press release by Steam they revealed that they can now say that they’ve passed the 65 million user landmark. Steam claim that over the past 12 months they have seen a 30% growth in the number of active accounts. Steam’s success can largely be attributed to the…
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Gabe Newell Talks About Linux, Hints At Steambox Announcement
Gabe Newell, the founder and CEO of Valve gave a keynote yesterday at Linuxcon, where he went on to say that Linux is the future of gaming, which is interesting stuff indeed, but the real gold is that he hinted about a hardware announcement for next week! Could this be…
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More (Accurate) Steam Summer Sale 2013 Information
Edit: Several unconfirmed rumours are suggesting 10am Pacific Time (PST) is when we will see the Steam Summer Sale of 2013 launched. That means 18:00 GMT so about 4 hours from the time of writing this. Well I made a bit of a huge fail earlier when I published the 2012…
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Edited- Steam Summer Sale 2013 Information
Updated article now available here. Edit – I sourced this news story from Softpedia who used last years information. Apologies for the inconvenience don’t even bother reading this if you want to see this year’s games! – Again, sorry. We will bring you the latest ACCURATE news on the 2013 Summer…
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Valve’s Gabe Newell predicts PC-to-TV video gaming feature to be standard
Gabe Newell believes that PC will become living room friendly all thanks to the ability of the newer wireless streaming technology and the current structure of the market. Its predicted that many users with a powerful enough gaming PC will be able to wireless stream the games to any TV as super-low latency. Mr.…
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