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Valve designer Greg Coomer: How getting rid of bosses makes for better games

Valve is well known for groundbreaking games such as Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and Portal. But the 16-year-old Bellevue game maker also is renowned… 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

Valve ‘hacker extraordinaire’ builds hybrid rocket engine

Ben Krasnow has created X-rays with a vacuum tube, combined avocados and high pressure nitrous oxide, and cooked up homemade… 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

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

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

Man vs. machine: Valve game designer looks to defend world pinball title

Update, 6/11: The results are in, and Cayle came in second in this weekend’s world championship. Not too shabby. “It… 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

Report: Valve preparing to jump into console business

The Seattle region is already a nexus for the video-game console industry, as the home of both Microsoft’s Xbox division… Read More

Valve’s hardware ambitions revealed by Penny Arcade’s new ‘PA Report’

In case you missed the news last month, the guys behind the hit Penny Arcade webcomic have hired veteran video-game… 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

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

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

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

This Seattle woman really, really wants to work at Valve

Valve Software is one of the Seattle area’s hottest gaming companies. And Erin Michael Vondrak, a Seattle artist and photographer,… Read More

Nerd Notes: Alcoholic Internet memes, video games as vintage books and more

Valve hooks up Team Fortress 2, for free! And apparently the game is also free of ads to boot. Nevada won’t discriminate… Read More

Nerd Notes: Sony Vaio goes gold, it’s hip to be geek and an alien scares a kid

Seattle Retro Gaming Expo is going on this weekend at Hotel Deca in the UD. And don’t even think about… Read More