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Valve's Robin Walker talks about how Team Fortress 2 became a test bed for shifting marketplace trends.

Ramblings and musings of occasional significance to the Shacknews audience. This is the morning edition for September 12, 2012. Topics include: Torchlight 2 should fill the Diablo 3 void for some players; Neverwinter's mod tools are intriguing; and Planetary Annihilation is in the home stretch. Wake up, scrubs, it's the Morning Caffeinated!

Steam Greenlight launched on August 30 to much fanfare--and numerous pranksters--but Valve has announced that 10 titles garnered enough fan support to get a coveted spot on Steam in the coming months.

Ramblings and musings of occasional significance to the Shacknews audience. This is the morning edition for September 11, 2012. Topics include: Blizzard almost had a sports division; the space sim genre is getting a new entry; and what's up with the cryptic Obsidian site. Wake up, scrubs, it's the Morning Caffeinated!

Valve boss Gabe Newell says it's more likely the company would "disintegrate" and scatter than be sold to a larger company.

Valve will be launching a public beta today of its Steam Big Picture mode, according to a New York Times report.

Ramblings and musings of occasional significance to the Shacknews audience. This is the morning edition for September 6, 2012. Topics include: Ubisoft took my serial key; and a further discussion of the state of the MMO genre. Wake up, scrubs, it's the Morning Caffeinated!

Valve has rolled out its large Community update for Steam, offering widespread changes to game hubs, groups, personal content, and friends lists.

Ramblings and musings of occasional significance to the Shacknews audience. This is the morning edition for September 5, 2012. Topics include: Blizzard and BioWare aren't as bad as they seem; the MMO may be dying; and Valve shows its disdain for the PC hardware scene. Wake up, scrubs, it's the Morning Caffeinated!

Steam Greenlight was flooded with hundreds of games, including countless hoax and illicit entries, within hours of launching last Thursday, which apparently makes it quite difficult to fulfil its purpose of filtering Steam store submissions. To bring the volume down and ward off trolls, Valve has added a $100 fee for submitting a game and improved the selection users are shown. Though Valve donates the $100 to charity, it's rubbing some indies the wrong way.