Valve files for Half-life 3 trademark
We’re not entirely sure what it means in terms of when Half-Life 3 will actually surface, but Valve Software has filed for a Half-Life 3 trademark so there’s at the very least SOMETHING happening...
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Team Fortress 2 flips the bird at Noakes
In blatant defiance of Professor Tim Noakes’s stance on carbs, Valve has introduced bread (!) to Team Fortress 2. Yes, as of the June 11 update to the six year old shooter/hat simulator, whenever...
View Article[WATCH] Team Fortress 2’s big reveal
Yesterday we wrote about Team Fortress 2’s obsession with bread, and right at the end we threw in word of a countdown timer that was ticking down to an unknown event. That event turned out to be the...
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Steam sale attracts over 8 million concurrent users
The Steam Summer Sale is drawing to a close – today is the last day to scoop up any unclaimed bargains – and Steam’s stats show that the number of gamers logged in at the same time during the sale...
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Future Steam to look a lot nicer
A new look has been rolled out to the latest Steam client beta. As of last week, if you opted into Valve’s beta programme, your Steam client will have a new font, a slight blue glow around the edges,...
View ArticleOz unbans gory shooter four years after release
Left 4 Dead 2, a four-year-old shooter from Valve Software, has finally been unbanned by our friends in the land down under. This is due to a new R18+ rating category for violent games with visuals and...
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Discovery Update makes Steam a lot more personal
Steam just got a whole lot more personal with its latest interface update. Dubbed The Steam Discovery Update, it rolled out last night and has changed the client’s interface quite a bit to ensure games...
View ArticlePlay ten PC games for free this weekend on Steam
Free games are the best kind, and PC gaming storefront Steam knows this. That’s why nearly every weekend there’s a game or two that you can play, for free, between Thursday and Sunday. This weekend,...
View ArticleCrowd-funded effort aims to encourage Valve to finish Half-Life 3
Two interns at an ad agency in the US have started an IndieGoGo campaign to raise $150 000 (R1.65m) to encourage Valve to finish and release Half-Life 3, the never-announced sequel to 2004’s Half-Life...
View ArticleValve’s annual Scream Fortress Halloween event has bumper cars
If you haven’t tried the chaotic fun of Team Fortress 2’s Scream Fortress Halloween event before, now’s your chance. The free-to-play shooter’s annual event kicked off yesterday, and it’s even madder...
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All Steam gamers can now stream their games online
Game streaming service Twitch has yet another competitor: Steam Broadcasting is now live for all of Steam’s 100 million+ users according to some recently-published Update Notes for Valve’s game client....
View ArticleValve Software’s economist is now Greek minister of finance
What’s more rewarding for the average economist than being charged with understanding the emerging models of market behaviour derived from the sales of player-created game content? How about running...
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[MWC2015] HTC is making Valve’s Steam VR kit. And it’s called the Vive
So after a fairly uneventful but tediously short of legroom journey we’ve finally made it to Barcelona for this year’s Mobile World Congress, and opening the show this evening is HTC. It’s slipped its...
View ArticleThe Source 2 game engine is coming, and for free
It’s truly an astonishing time to be a game developer, with the arrival of not only one, but two free game engines. And they’re not from small-fry development houses, either. First, Epic Games made its...
View ArticleWant to know what Valve’s Vive VR headset is like? Read this.
I’ve come over all giddy reading this excellent post by Rock, Paper Shotgun’s Graham Smith on his actual hands (heads?)-on experience with Valve’s Vive VR headset, and I just had to share. Basically,...
View ArticleAlienware’s Alpha Steam Machine is coming to South Africa
Gamers interested in local pricing of Alienware’s Alpha Steam Machines will be interested too know that they’re looking at R10 000 for the entry-level Core i3 model. That’s actually quite good,...
View ArticleEven pinball is better with portals
So Valve Software’s latest addition to the gaming universe isn’t Half-Life 3, but it’s intriguing nonetheless: it’s a Portal-themed table for Zen Pinball, co-developed by Valve and the good folks over...
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Yes, PC games are cheaper now that Steam charges in rand
Steam, Valve Software’s ubiquitous PC games manager and storefront, now lists everything it sells in South African rands. This change has come six days after South African Steam account holders were...
View ArticleValve files for Half-life 3 trademark
We’re not entirely sure what it means in terms of when Half-Life 3 will actually surface, but Valve Software has filed for a Half-Life 3 trademark so there’s at the very least SOMETHING happening...
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Team Fortress 2 flips the bird at Noakes
In blatant defiance of Professor Tim Noakes’s stance on carbs, Valve has introduced bread (!) to Team Fortress 2. Yes, as of the June 11 update to the six year old shooter/hat simulator, whenever...
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