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The Cave pre-orders offer Team Fortress 2 items

By Steve Watts, Jan 10, 2013 7:00am PST

The Cave pre-orders on Steam include a set of items to be worn around in Team Fortress 2.

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"Couldn't they have done something cool instead of some stupid shit like this?"

- capt tripps see all 5 comments

Valve working on mobile hardware, biometric controllers

By Andrew Yoon, Jan 08, 2013 4:10pm PST

Valve's Gabe Newell talks about installing Windows on the Steam Box, their mobile Steam Box ambitions, and how they will use biometrics in new controllers.

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"The point is to get the open platform of PC games as accessible as consoles. To a current PC ..."

- pantsburgh see all 9 comments

Steam 2012 Holiday Sale now live

By Steve Watts, Dec 20, 2012 1:00pm PST

The Steam Holiday Sale has started up, offering discounts on Scribblenauts Unlimited, Mirror's Edge, and various Borderlands, Prince of Persia, and Hitman franchise titles.

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"Only if it specifically states that on the store page for that bundle deal."

- ShoCon see all 21 comments

Steam Linux client enters open beta testing

By Alice O'Connor, Dec 20, 2012 9:00am PST

Santa Tux has visited early this year, dragging an open beta version of Steam's Linux client behind his Gentoo-powered sleigh. Now, all who've embraced the free software revolution can try and test Valve's crack at making Linux a viable gaming platform. Now, stop me if you'v...

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"It couldn't have hurt since the number of Mac ports increased. About half of my ~350 Steam games ..."

- Serpico74 see all 12 comments

Steam launches 'Game Guides' beta

By Steve Watts, Dec 14, 2012 7:30am PST

Valve has released a beta for "Game Guides," a new feature that lets experienced players publish walkthroughs that appear right inside a game's Hub page.

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"Thats the last guide I owned as well, haha. Definitely one of the better guides as well, ..."

- topato see all 14 comments

Steam launches real money-based 'Community Market'

By Steve Watts, Dec 12, 2012 11:45am PST

Valve has kicked off the beta for it's Steam Community Market, which lets users exchange Steam Wallet funds for items. Currently the beta only supports Team Fortress 2 consumables.

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"I suppose you could transfer the money by trading it for a worhtless item, but you'd have to pay ..."

- Pulveri see all 47 comments

Valve boss says living room Steam PCs coming with Linux support

By Steve Watts, Dec 10, 2012 1:30pm PST

The pieces are coming together for Valve to push into the hardware space, as it increases software support for Linux boxes and points out that the OS would allow more flexibility for hardware plans.

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"Valvebox exclusive for 6 months maybe but that will piss off a lot of people"

- et72 see all 95 comments

Valve unveils 13 more greenlit games for Steam

By John Keefer, Nov 30, 2012 9:00am PST

Valve has unveiled the next batch of approved Greenlight games for Steam, with 13 getting the nod. It also approved the first six software titles.

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"Now if we can just get EA and Activision to get their heads out of their asses, and not only ..."

- TxJeepers see all 11 comments

Steam autumn sale kicks off with XCOM, Walking Dead deals

By Steve Watts, Nov 21, 2012 12:30pm PST

Steam's annual autumn sale has kicked off today, offering discounts on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, The Walking Dead, Darksiders 2, and more.

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"This is tough because I doubt I'll play these games by Christmas and they'll likely be on sale then."

- iamgoat see all 12 comments

Super Hexagon spinning onto PC next week

By Alice O'Connor, Nov 21, 2012 6:45am PST

If you're prone to the occasional rage quit, it may be sensible to get in a few spare mice or gamepads. VVVVVV creator Terry Cavanagh's delightfully difficult spin 'em up Super Hexagon is whirring onto PC and Mac next week via Steam, sure to test your patience and perhaps pr...

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"A Super Hexagon tournament was held at an indie games event in London shortly after release, ..."

- Alice O'Connor see all 4 comments

Report: Steam autumn and winter sales dated

By Steve Watts, Nov 20, 2012 11:30am PST

Valve's autumn and winter sale dates have been outed by developers, who revealed that the first one starts tomorrow and lasts through November 27.

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"Piece of s**t, Right in the middle of a new build , Do they take IOU's , im good 4 it "

- smidgets see all 8 comments

Steam for Linux launches in beta, with two dozen games

By Andrew Yoon, Nov 06, 2012 12:30pm PST

Steam, Valve's popular portal for PC games, is now available on Linux.

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"He's doing some dodgy jiggery pokery to get the beta to work where it shouldnt. It'll be much ..."

- jcupitt see all 23 comments

Steam Greenlight to announce next batch November 30

By Steve Watts, Nov 01, 2012 3:45pm PDT

Valve will announced the next set of Steam Greenlight games on November 30, the company has revealed.

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"Greenlight has some identity issues. Is it for mods or AA to AAA titles looking to be put on steam?"

- beef2187 see all 2 comments

Mark of the Ninja leaps onto Steam

By Steve Watts, Oct 16, 2012 3:00pm PDT

The critically acclaimed stealth action game Mark of the Ninja is now available on Steam for $14.99, boasting all of its console features plus new keyboard and mouse controls.

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"Naw, you're good. Never played Thief, but recently bought it on Steam (the whole collection) ..."

- mrnails see all 9 comments

Indie Royale 'Fall Bundle' now available

By Steve Watts, Oct 16, 2012 11:05am PDT

Indie Royale has kicked off its Fall Bundle, which includes To the Moon, Oil Rush, Blackwell Deception, AVSEQ, and Reprisal.

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"I'd prefer they had the first in this bundle but I'll take what I can get. :( If I really ..."

- Bull see all 7 comments