Valve News

It's all go at Payday: The Heist developer Overkill Software these days. As well as working on a sequel and DLC for its coop crime caper FPS, and being acquired by Starbreeze Studios, the Swedes are working with Valve on something Left 4 Dead-y.

You may, this very day, start downloading a Steam game on your home computer while stuck bored behind your desk at work, to have it ready to go when you arrive back home. Yes, Steam remote downloads have now officially launched in the regular client.

"In accordance with the agreement, Valve will continue to use DOTA commercially, including DOTA 2, while Blizzard will preserve noncommercial use of DOTA for its community."

After only a few days, Portal 2 content creators have made 35,000 maps that have been downloaded 1.3 million times. Steam is hosting a Weekend Workshop sale to mark the occasion.

Apparently, "The International" is an annual affair, as Valve has announced plans for a second Dota 2 competition.

As promised, Portal 2's "Perpetual Testing Initiative" DLC is now available for everyone that owns the game on Steam.

Steam's getting the option to initiate game downloads remotely through a web browser, so your games can be ready and waiting for you when you get home from work.

Portal 2's next DLC, the "Perpetual Testing Initiative," will be available on PC and Mac on May 8th.

Valve Software is reportedly a few months away from completing a port of Steam and the Source Engine for the Linux OS.

Valve's Gabe Newell talks about why the studio stays quiet on projects while still sorting out the planning stages.

It was welcome news last week that EA had revised its Origin ban policy, no longer blocking banned players from every game they own on Origin. It's since come to light that Valve has made a similar change on Steam--over two months ago, in fact. Hurrahs all round!

Gabe Newell talks about Dota 2's model, saying it will be free-to-play but with some level of community interaction that rewards players.

Perhaps one of the more visionary projects in the works at Valve involves "wearable computers," mobile computing devices where "both computer-generated graphics and the real world are seamlessly overlaid in your view."

Valve's hiring for an electronics engineer to work on designing and producing actual physical things. "We're not talking about me-too mice and gamepads here," Valve says in the job listing, "help us invent whole new gaming experiences."

Nexon Korea and Valve are teaming up to bring Counter-Strike Online 2 to the Asian market.