Valve News

Three special new hats have been only added to Team Fortress 2, but only three--ever. These "one-of-a-kind" hats move from player to player each day, going to, essentially, whoever's willing to spend the most money on various items in TF2's in-game store.

The latest patch for Dota 2 gives a closer look of what we can expect from the game's microtransactions.

Valve's Doug Lombardi has denied rumors that the company is working on consumer hardware, claiming that the "Steam Box" rumors were sparked by boxes built to test the Big Picture mode.

At a panel during GDC, Valve's Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw showed off some stuff from the cutting room floor, including the game's lost competitive multiplayer, alternate ending, and more.

Valve Software has been evaluated at a worth of $3 billion. Co-founder Gabe Newell, according to the report, owns at least half of the company, so has a personal net worth of $1.5 billion.

It's long been rumoured that Valve has plans to get into the hardware game. Now a new set of rumours are saying the Steam and Half-Life maker is planning a PC gaming platform, with standardised hardware and software it'll share with companies to make thei

Blizzard is reportedly working on an unannounced free-to-play game, in an effort to offer microtransaction-based revenue streams alongside subscriptions.

The hardware survey for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is open to all, and will be used to start sending out more beta keys next week.

Valve boss Gabe Newell talks about the tricky legal ground of digital ownership, and how service providers must take care of their customers to avoid conflicts.

Valve has confirmed both a LAN mode and mod support for Dota 2 as it continues to add enough servers to support the community at launch.

Valve poked a bit of fun at Valentine's Day yesterday, with a Team Fortress 2 engagement ring gift that costs too much and is functionally useless.

Steam was knocked offline for several hours on Sunday by a power failure at Valve's data center. The downtime forced some victims to resort to archaic forms of Sunday afternoon entertainment, such as strolling in the countryside and conversing with loved

Though the Dota 2 beta already has enough players to land a stable spot in Steam's top-ten list of most-played games, it's not enough. Valve has explained that the beta is still closed and expanding slowly because there isn't enough server capacity.

Blizzard has filed an official dispute with the USPTO over Valve trademarking "DOTA" for Dota 2, claiming people will think it's connected with Blizzard, and that Valve's trying to steal goodwill it built up. Valve, naturally, denies this.

A letter from Gabe Newell updating users on the Steam hack from last year warns that a file of transaction activity between 2004-2008 was probably obtained. Passwords weren't included, and credit card and billing information was encrypted.