Valve, creator of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source) and popular recording artist The National, today are announcing the winners for their music video contest based on "Exile Vilify", a song penned by The National specifically for Portal 2, which is the year's highest rated multiplatform game release.
Read MorePortal 2 "Exile Vilify" Music Video Contest Winners Announced
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 6:35:22 AM Asia/Shanghai
Battlefield 3 Officially Unavailable On Steam; EA Will Lose Lots Of PC Gamers
Monday, August 8, 2011 6:29:57 AM Asia/Shanghai
Most of us who followed the news already knew that Battlefield 3 wasn’t appearing on Steam since the info leaked from a retailer meeting pretty much saying Battlefield 3 won’t be appearing on Steam. However, Electronic Arts has officially notified their users (and the gaming community at large) that Battlefield 3 won’t be on Steam due to Valve’s terms of service that restricts EA’s ‘ability to connect directly with consumers’. I like to think of that statement more-so as "Valve won't let us screw PC gamers over, so Battlefield 3 won't be on Steam".
Read MoreNo Steam Distribution for Battlefield 3
Friday, August 5, 2011 6:14:20 AM Asia/Shanghai
Recently, Electronic Arts and Valve have been wrangling over digital distribution of EA-published games, as EA is currently making a big push to promote their rebranded Origin service. EA has even gone so far as to remove top-selling games Dragon Age II and Crysis 2 from Steam.
Read MoreValve Eyeing PlayStation 3 Development
Monday, February 22, 2010 4:59:10 PM Asia/Shanghai
PlayStation 3 owners have been dying to get a chance to play Valve's zombie franchise Left 4 Dead for some time. But now it looks like there's reason to start holding out hope.
Read MoreNext L4D2 Update Adding Versus Bots, Tweaking Auto-Spawning
Monday, February 8, 2010 9:42:08 AM Asia/Shanghai
nfected bots will balance out Versus matches, as will changing some auto-spawning rules in finales.
Read MoreValve Launches a New Site For Contributing TF2 Content
Friday, January 22, 2010 10:54:48 AM Asia/Shanghai
Submit a created weapon, hat, or other item and allow yourself and others to use it in game.
While some games might be abandoning the mod community (most recently, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2), Valve is doing its best to encourage modders to continue doing what they're doing. Just yesterday, Valve launched a new website to encourage modders to create and submit custom items (including weapons, hats, and avatars) for Team Fortress 2. After submission, Valve will review the content and, once approved, will be added to your TF2 backpack for use while playing. But even more excitingly, items will also be cycled into the random item drops, meaning that not only you, but anyone else playing TF2 could potentially end up using ...
Team Fortress 2 Experimenting with Bots
Thursday, January 14, 2010 4:41:33 PM Asia/Shanghai
Valve asks for bot feedback on new forum, A.I. players only good for King of the Hill mode.
Hot on the heels of the recent War update, the Team Fortress 2 team is giving users another reason to keep playing the team-based shooter: bot beta testing. The company is soliciting feedback on bots, and detailed the move in a blog post. Apparently the team has been using lessons learned from Left 4 Dead to experiment with them for the last year. While the bots are still unfinished, Valve is rolling them out for public play to get feedback on bugs and suggestions.
