Valve leads considered making a "mediocre" game before Half-Life to build the team up, but original marketing exec said "if you do that, the company will fail"
"I told Gabe that I thought the only way that Half-Life was really going to work was if it was named Game of the Year" ...
Steam's DRM was inspired by an exec's nephew and his trusty CD burner
Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...
Get up to 85% off some of the PCs weirdest adventure games, all to benefit 'humanitarian relief in Ukraine'
Amanita Design, the Czech studio best known for Machinarium and the Samorost trilogy, is currently offering up to 85% off all its games, with money from all sales going to humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
Steam hit REPO hides real class and an understanding of gaming greats behind its chummy chaos and crude emojis
Listen: I'm sure I could find out what this game was in a few minutes on Google, but I kind of want to retain my vaporous ...
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I Saw the AI Future of Video Games: It Starts With a Character Hopping Over a Box
Game Developers Conference, graphics-chip maker Nvidia showed off its latest tools that use generative AI to augment future games.
'We're actually getting GeoGuessr on Steam before GTA 6': the Google Street View puzzler arrives on Valve's platform this April
Bringing Geoguessr to Steam seems like a smart way to formalise its nature as a competitive game, while also exposing it to a wider audience. There's no precise release date yet, but the X post says ...
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Half-Life 2 RTX demo launches on Steam: What your PC needs to play
A demo of Half-Life 2 RTX, an upcoming community-made mod/DLC, has launched on Steam. If you are a Half ... Project 17 and Raising the Bar: Redux. The game will launch “at a later date ...
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New Petition Has Request for Xbox Game Pass
A recent petition points out a problem with digital-only Xbox consoles and asks for additions to Xbox Game Pass to fix the ...
How a nephew’s CD burner inspired early Valve to embrace DRM
PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference. In her ...
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Half-Life 3 is allegedly being playtested at Valve – please don’t give me hope
Valve is said to be testing the long-awaited Half-Life 3, giving fans hope that the game might actually release.
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Valve founder Gabe Newell is so into Stalker 2, he’s already found the fourth ending
Half-Life and Steam creator Gabe Newell has been playing so much Stalker 2, he's already found all four endings.
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New Petition Has Request for Xbox Game Pass
Valve has yet to release its games on new Xbox consoles, but possible Steam integration might change ... Now, players are calling for a change. Half-Life has been one of the most iconic and ...