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Why Valve has succeeded

Taylor Flatt — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:46:42 +0000

Ever since Valve has hit the spotlight, they have come out with awesome, if not record breaking software. Steam, which was once frowned at and rarely used, has now broken into the gaming scene with awesome features and innovative ideas that were...

Half Life's Life Span (Valve)

Taylor Flatt — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:08:13 +0000

Half life has become one of the top competitors in the race of gaming as of lately. Valve has also just overhauled their engine to compete with the new CryEngine2, which has blown us all away with the graphics and physics. But Valve’s...

TF2’s Heavy next in line for class update

Taylor Flatt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:49:11 +0000

Joystiq is reporting that the Heavy will be the next Team Fortress 2 class to get an update, following the Pyro content boost a few weeks back. No date’s been given for the new content as...

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 won't be at E3

Taylor Flatt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:12:55 +0000

According to Next-gen, Valve marketing boss Doug Lombardi has shot down rumours that Half-Life 2: Episode 3 will be shown at E3 2008.

Valve hacker MaddoxX arrested in Holland

Taylor Flatt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:12:49 +0000

Shacknews reports that the hacker MaddoxX, who last year hacked into third-party Valve servers, was finally caught by Dutch police in Maastricht last Tuesday.

EA: No Orange Box Patch, its Vavles Game

Taylor Flatt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:50:03 +0000

QUESTION: Is a patch planned for the Orange Box? This game is unplayable. ANSWER: Honestly, EA will not create the patches. EA did not engineer/program the game. Valve...

Valve Announces Steam Cloud

Taylor Flatt — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:49:27 +0000

Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a free Steam system that will retain users’ saved games and configuration files indefinitely. Half-Life and Half-Life 2 will be the first games to support the service. User key mappings will also be saved...

Encryption chip will end piracy, says Atari Founder

Taylor Flatt — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:49:28 +0000

This is just another failed attempt at actually trying to “stop” PC pirating. It won’t ever stop. People will all find a way around it. If, IF, they find a way to “stop” piracy without an easy way around it Hackers and...

Valve's Portal bags Game of the Year at GDC Awards

Asmita — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 10:14:21 +0000

Mega hits like Super Mario Galaxy, Rock Band and Bioshock took a step back as Valve’s futuristic game Portal walked away with the Game of the Year award at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards. The ceremony was held at the Game...

The Orange Box PS3 version launch delayed

Yashpal — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:14:15 +0000

The Orange Box - empirically compiled anthology of five epic games from Valve, launch has been victimized by deferment as the PS3 version of the game will not come out on scheduled time. The five-game compilation, which includes Half-Life 2,...