All Stories Tagged: Valve, Page 65

Citing frustration with the market, Valve has opened a job listing for an industrial designer, hinting that the company may bring out its own hardware box eventually.

Valve's three-day Dota-rama The International kicked off this morning, bringing 16 professional >Dota 2 teams together to slug it out over a novelty over-sized cheque for $1 million. The game has come a long way since it was introduced to the world, and picked up oodles of new fans, so come on gang, let's watch some Dota!

We may not be the bigshot in the executive leather chair who gets to decide which games are made and which get dumped, but we can now at least have a say in which get on the Steam store. Which is essentially the same thing to that weird and confusing small number of people who only buy games on Steam. Valve today launched Steam Greenlight, letting users vote on which indie games they'd like to see on Steam.

Dota 2 may still be in semi-closed beta, but it's already one of the most 'eSports'-friendly games going--in terms of the client, at least, as Dota is still terrifyingly opaque to casual observers. Valve yesterday launched a new update adding in-game pennants for fans to show their support for their favourite professional teams, and maybe scoop some unique items too.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will already have a Plaguefest zombie mod available when it launches tomorrow.

Valve is pushing the pro-gaming side of Dota 2 pretty hard but isn't quite ready to open the beta up to everyone, so it's released a special spectator client all and sundry can download to watch games.

Valve has outlined the upcoming Steam Community update, with large changes coming to the way the Community and Friends are separated, along with changes to Groups and your own page.

We jump into a Team Fortress 2 Shacknews server to get a report on the recently released Mann vs. Machine.

Valve has announced that Big Picture Mode will finally enter beta this September.