Community Spotlight: Steam Control 360
With Valve's "big picture" mode MIA, one Shacker created his own stopgap solution: Steam Control 360.
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With Valve's "big picture" mode MIA, one Shacker created his own stopgap solution: Steam Control 360.
Team Fortress 2 is launching the "Pyromania" update this week, with a new game mode, the Meet the Pyro video, and something to do with Adult Swim.
Valve has teamed up with Adult Swim to create something based on Team Fortress 2.
Dota 2 boasts a jolly impressive in-game spectator system, supporting multiple audio streams from commentator and oodles of camera options. How natural, then, that Valve plans to sell in-game spectator passes for tournaments, much like web streams are sold now.
Valve has opened a "Steam for Schools" initiative, offering a special educators version of Steam that includes Portal 2 and the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker, along with various lesson plans for science, technology, engineering, and math.
Overkill Software promised it was working on a Left 4 Dead thing. Well, here it is.
Valve has hired on an economist to study the various real, digital, and social economies at work in the company and its games, to enhance the user experience.
Valve's Dota 2 tournament The International introduced the game to the world last year, and now it's returning to show people how far both it and the professional scene have come. Here's a reminder that tickets go on sale this morning.
The PS3 version of Portal 2 will be getting the MotionPack DLC. Previously exclusive to the Razer Hydra motion controller, this version will use the PlayStation Move controller.
Valve announced today that Dota 2 will be free to play at launch and opened an in-game store so current players can start customizing their characters.