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Why Valve’s company structure ‘felt a lot like high school’ to this ex-employee

Valve is well-known for its counterintuitive corporate culture, one in which bosses don’t exist and employees are encouraged to take big risks… Read More

Valve experimenting with gameplay that changes depending on perspiration

Imagine yourself playing a first-person shooter. As the gameplay gets intense, your heart starts racing. The game detects your pulse… Read More

Gabe Newell: Valve saw business spike 50% in 2012 thanks to ‘open platforms’

Business is booming at Valve. The Bellevue-based gaming company is thriving, according to CEO Gabe Newell, who said that Valve… Read More

Xi3 responds after Valve tries to distance itself from Piston gaming console

Two months ago at the Consumer Electronics Show, a new partnership between hardware manufacturer Xi3 and Valve seemed bright and happy. The two… Read More

Valve CEO Gabe Newell: Steam Box controller may measure your heart rate

Imagine playing an intense horror game and having your gaming experience change depending on how quickly your heart is beating.… Read More

‘Portal’ sitcom: Machinima hosting web series based on Valve’s classic game

Portal fans rejoice: Online video network Machinima is hosting a ‘Portal’-themed live action web series set to debut later this… Read More

Valve’s Gabe Newell to receive British gaming award for “exceptional contribution”

Gabe Newell is already well-known as a video game legend, and now he’s being honored across the pond. The Valve… Read More

Valve launches Steam for Linux with big sale

After nearly two months in beta mode, Valve has released Steam for Linux. You can get the Steam client from the… Read More

Report: Valve letting go of several employees as part of “great cleansing”

Valve hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth made news this week when she tweeted that she had been fired, and now it looks like… Read More

Watch J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell talk about making games and movies together

We wrote last week about director J.J. Abrams and Valve co-founder Gabe Newell giving the keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit and… Read More

Check out Gabe Newell’s insane knife collection

Apparently, Gabe Newell likes to collect knives. Sam Hulick, an award-winning composer for video games, Tweeted out this photo a few days… Read More

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell: Linux is a “get-out-of-jail free pass for our industry”

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just gave a 30-minute keynote at the DICE 2013 Summit in Las Vegas. He didn’t make any… Read More

Valve unveiling Steam Box this year, will run on Linux

It looks like the Steam Box is coming and will run on Linux. German IT site Golem is reporting that… Read More

Valve opens Steam for Linux beta to everyone

After opening the doors to a limited beta of Steam for Linux to just 1,000 people last month, Valve is now… Read More

Gabe Newell: Valve to build a gaming PC for the living room

While most of the next-generation console talk is about the future of PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo products, there could be… Read More

Steam’s Big Picture out of beta and into your living room

After nearly three months in beta mode, Steam is making its free “Big Picture” mode available to public, giving PC gamers a new… Read More

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Gabe: Valve founder inducted to Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

The Hall of Fame. Whether it’s baseball, cars or rock-n-roll, the Hall is synonymous as a place for the people who… Read More

Valve’s Gabe Newell: Three beta controllers, new game engine in the works

Here’s one way to get Gabe Newell talking about Valve’s latest creations: Go wish him happy birthday. That’s what a… Read More

Valve for sale? Asian firms reportedly in talks to purchase video game studio

Even though Valve CEO Gabe Newell said it’s more likely that his company will “disintegrate,” rather than be bought out,… Read More

Video-game maker Valve: ‘An economist’s paradise’

Here’s a great weekend read. It’s the opening blog post in a new weekly series from noted economist Yanis Varoufakis, the… Read More

Author Neal Stephenson’s new sword fighting game Clang: The best Kickstarter pitch yet?

We’ve watched a lot of Kickstarter videos in recent months. But nothing — at least in our experience — compares… Read More

Apple’s Tim Cook stirs up wild speculation with Valve visit

Was he there for acquisition talks? Partnership discussions? Trying to convince Gabe Newell to bet bigger on the iPad and… Read More

Generation Gamer: NWCN takes an inside look at the booming video game industry

Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell, DoubleDown Interactive CEO Greg Enell, ZipLine Games co-founder Todd Hooper and many others from Seattle’s… Read More

Valve says intruders accessed Steam customer database

Valve co-founder Gabe Newell just sent a message to users of the company’s Steam video-game platform disclosing that online intruders… Read More

How Valve experiments with the economics of video games

Valve Corp., the Bellevue-based video game company behind hit franchises like Half-Life and Portal, is a giant in the digital… Read More

Valve has high hopes for its ‘non-sucky educational game’

Valve, the Bellevue company behind the Steam video-game platform and hit games such as Portal and Half-Life, is developing a… Read More

‘Portal’ in the classroom? Valve joins White House in education technology initiative

“Digital Promise” is a new education technology initiative rolled out by the U.S. Department of Education yesterday, with Congressional support,… Read More