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Valve has revealed the first of its big three Steam-related living room announcements of the week: a custom Linux operating system intended for living room PCs with big screens, named SteamOS. It'll even support streaming Windows and Mac games from your gaming PC. Valve's wo...

After raising over $150,000 for community mappers with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive's Operation Payback, not to mention an undisclosed amount for itself, Valve is having another go. Last night it launched Operation Bravo, with another set of maps people can play on offic...

Now that Dota 2 has officially launched, some patches more than patches, they are, borrowing the language of Team Fortress 2, Updates. Valve has announced the first big fancy Update for Dota 2, named First Blood, which will launch on Monday with a new picking mode, the abili...

"Next week we're going to be rolling out more information about how we get there and what are the hardware opportunities we see for bringing Linux into the living room," Gabe Newell said.

Steam announced a "Family Sharing" feature today, which will let you share your library with up to 10 users. A beta is set to begin soon.

Today's update bumps up the Greenlight collection of games from 160 to 260.

Remember how Left 4 Dead's characters looked long ago, before Valve snapped up creator Turtle Rock Studios? A rummage in Valve's archive has dug up the old models, and you can now play the early burly bearded incarnation of loveable biker Francis in Left 4 Dead 2. The other ...

Voice actor John Patrick Lowrie has been in multiple Valve games, from the original Half-Life 2 to the recent Dota 2. And he claims that Valve is actually not working on a Half-Life sequel at all.

With Xbox One on the horizon, it seemed as though Microsoft had given up

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has issued the "Arms Deal" update, creating a special marketplace for in-game cosmetic tweaks to weapons.

"I'm so excited to watch the replays for The International 3's grand finals!" I thought this morning, with a little more grogy muttering and cussing, "But I'll just check there's nothing pressing in my work e-mail." And then I saw the press release from Valve at 5am boldly d...

Dota 2 is really good, you guys. And it's cracking to watch when played at its best, such as at Valve's big annual tournament this weekend, The International 3. Watch who what when where how why? I'll explain.

The internet jokes that Valve is allergic to the number 3. However, it appears one sequel may finally reach that ever-elusive number. A recent tour of Valve's office by Reddit members has unearthed a listing for "Left 4 Dead 3."

Operation Payback was another of Valve's experiments with 'games as services' and paying community creators, and a jolly successful one at that. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive community mappers earned over $150,000 from players paying $6 to run around their seven maps on V...

Valve's Tom Bui explained the shortcomings of its Steam Greenlight program, and said it is actively working to fix them by making the processes more automated.