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Steam Store goes down after gamers flock Valve’s annual Summer Sale

Good news for gamers looking to save cash on their next purchase: Valve’s Steam Summer Sale kicks off today. Bad… 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

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

‘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 invests in hardware maker Xi3, partners on ‘Steam Box’

We wrote yesterday that Valve’s “Steam Box,” a PC designed to connect to your TV and take advantage of the Steam’s Big… 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

Gamer’s dream: Valve seeks testers for upcoming games and hardware prototypes

Here’s your chance to get a sneak peak into Valve’s latest games and gadgets. The Bellevue-based video game company needs… Read More

Steam ‘Big Picture’ game mode arrives today in beta

Look out, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo: There’s a new player in the living room. Valve, the video-game company behind the… Read More

Oregon’s Ewok Village, Steam’s new apps, Facebook’s ticker symbol, and other weekend notes

News, notes and other interesting stuff on a drizzly Seattle weekend … The idea was “to figure out how to… Read More

Steam on a roll as Valve targets bigger screens for games

The Steam video-game platform for Macs and Windows PCs grew substantially in 2011 — with unit sales of games rising… 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

Valve’s Newell predicts Apple will shake up game consoles

Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam… Read More