Valve has released the latest free update to its first person shooter Team Fortress 2, Robotic Boogaloo, that features content made completely by the game's community members. More...

Valve has announced that PC and Mac owners of Left 4 Dead 2 can down download the full Linux beta version of the popular zombie co-op shooter, along with authoring tools and a dedicated server. More...

The newest Steam hardware survey results for April 2013 show that its users continue to switch to Windows 8, with 11.65 percent of Steam subscribers shown as using Microsoft's latest OS. More...

The use of Windows 8 by people who use Valve's Steam service increased again in March and is now being used by over 10 percent of the people who participate in the hardware survey for the service. More...

Steam has launched Early Access which allows gamers to purchase games that are still in active development. Gamers can send feedback, bug reports and discuss the game. More...

The economy in Valve's war-themed hat simulator has been changing drastically in recent months. One community operated site, TF2 Finance, has taken an in-depth look at how it has developed thus far. More...

Characters from Left 4 Dead 2 will appear in the PC version of Resident Evil 6 on April 5th as a free addition and there are plans to bring RE6 character into the PC port of Left 4 Dead 2. More...

Xi3 has now said that it made its PISTON gaming PC "specifically for Valve" but it also disagrees with Valve about Linux being the future for PC games and will ship PISTON with a Windows OS. More...

Valve has revealed that it is no longer involved with PC maker Xi3 and its upcoming PISTON gaming PC, despite an announcement at CES 2013 that Valve had made a financial investment in Xi3. More...

At a panel at SXSW, Xi3 showed off the customizable interface for its upcoming PISTON gaming PC for the first time, which lets owners of the small PC select which services launch for each menu slot. More...

PC maker Xi3 has announced it is taking pre-orders for its small PISTON gaming PC that was first announced in January, with plans to ship the PC, made in part by funding with Valve, by the end of 2013 More...

Valve founder Gabe Newell said today some of its customers will get their hands on prototypes for its Steam Box gaming PC hardware "in the next three or four months" which would be a summer time frame More...

Don Mattrick, Microsoft's head of the division that includes the Xbox business, simply said, "No" when asked in an interview if he thinks Valve's plans for a Steam Box PC could compete with Microsoft. More...

Valve has officially launched the Linux portion of its Steam PC game download service, offering over 50 Linux based games and all of them on sale for the next week. More...

Rumors have hit the Internet that Valve has laid off a number of its employees, including some in its hardware division, just a few days after its founder Gabe Newell promoted its Steam Box vision. More...

Movie writer-director J.J Abrams and Valve founder Gabe Newell have revealed they will be collaborating on projects, which could include a Half-Life or Portal movie or a game title. More...

The latest hardware stats from Valve's Steam service show the percentage of its Windows 8 users are now close to overtaking Windows XP owners, while the Ubuntu version of Linux made tiny gains. More...

Valve founder Gabe Newell said this week that the biggest threat to the company's plans to launch a PC-based "Steam Box" console isn't from Microsoft, Sony or Nintendo but from Apple. More...

Valve has quietly released both Mac and Linux ports for its 1998 PC game Half-Life on Steam, along with Mac and Linux ports for the original version of Counter-Strike. More...

In association with our friends at BundleStars, Neogamr is giving ten games each to two lucky readers. All games are Steam-redeemable, so you've nothing to lose by entering. Good luck! More...

Valve has been making a lot of improvements to their Steam service, and today they announced "Steam Guides," labeled as "Player-created manuals & References." But does anyone care? More...

The upcoming PC release of Sega's Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed will allow players to compete as the Pyro, Heavy, and Spy in Valve's Team Fortress 2, along with two more Sega PC characters. More...

Valve's Robin Walker has admitted that in-game sales from the Mann Co store in Team Fortress 2 have now generated more revenue than the game did during its direct game sales period. More...

Microsoft Xbox corporate vice president Phil Harrison said today, "Entering the hardware business is a really tough business," in responding to Valve's plans for a PC-based "Steam Box". More...

In a new interview with Valve founder Gabe Newell, he states flat out that Valve's own Steam Box will be based on Linux, while also continuing his hate of Windows 8, calling it "this giant sadness." More...

Valve is showing off a prototype of its "Steam Box" PC at CES 2013 made to work with games using the Steam Big Picture mode, with an image clearly showing a Windows license sticker on the PC case. More...

The PC maker Xi3 has announced it has received an investment from Valve and will launch a new PC that will use Valve's Steam client and its Big Picture mode. More...

The latest hardware stats from Valve's Steam service show the percentage of its Windows 8 users are close to overtaking Windows Vista owners, while the Ubuntu version of Linux makes its survey debut. More...

We chat with Jacob Korsgaard, the creator of the very popular Windows 8 Pin Stream app that lets people launch their Steam games via the Windows 8 Start screen. More...

Steam has just launched its annual 2012 holiday PC game sale, with big price cuts for lots of games. Also, the Linux beta for Steam is now available for everyone to download. More...

Valve's Gabe Newell is predicting that companies could sell PCs designed to be hooked up to a living room TV with Steam pre-installed sometime in 2013, perhaps running under Linux. More...

The Independent Games Festival has announced that the 2013 finalists for all of its categories will be offered distribution agreements for Valve's Steam service. More...

Valve is celebrating the official non-beta launch of the Big Picture mode on Steam with price cuts on a number of the games that are gamepad "controller friendly" on the service. More...

Valve's PC game download service Steam reached a new peak of over 6 million concurrent users over the weekend, most likely due to its autumn PC game sales event. More...

A recently released app for Windows 8 allows Steam users to pin their favorite games they have downloaded from Valve's online service on their Windows 8 Start screen. More...

We chat with "BoneyardBrew" a long time Neowin forum member who has launched a new version of his popular Steam skin that makes the download client look like the Windows 8 "Metro" interface. More...

Valve founder Gabe Newell says that the Half-Life developer is indeed working on their next gaming engine, confirming earlier rumors spurred by references to 'Source 2' in their code. More...

NVIDIA has announced it has released new GeForce Linux drives, with the collaboration of Valve, just as Valve begins its Steam Linux beta test for a limited number of users. More...

Vaporware; the products that just keep getting delayed, and then disappears; the tech industry's full of it, and this week's Trivia Tuesday is delving into the anticlimactic world of vaporware. More...

Microsoft has been on the receiving end of a lot of hate from Valve and it looks like that train is not letting up anytime soon as the company has slammed Windows 8 once again in favor of Linux. More...

Valve is now allowing people to sign up to beta test its upcoming Linux client for its popular Steam game and software download service, saying it is looking for "experienced" users of the OS. More...

Valve has announced its recently launched Steam Greenlight site is now accepting applications from non-gaming software makers to have their products voted by community member to be included on Steam. More...

Valve has announced that 21 more indie PC games will be published on its Steam download service as part of their community driven-based Steam Greenlight program. More...

Valve has now launched its new non-gaming software download store on Steam, but at the moment only seven software products are available, including Valve's own free Source Filmmaker. More...

Valve has announced it will launch an internal beta for its Steam Linux client next week, and expand to a private external beta sometime later in October with 1,000 users. More...

A Korean media outlet claims, via unnamed sources, that Nexon and Valve representatives met earlier this week in Hawaii, with Nexon proposing to buy Valve for $893 million. More...

The director of the recent horror movie, Cabin in the Woods, reveal that at one time they had plans for an official Left 4 Dead 2 DLC pack to promote the film but those plans were latest cancelled. More...

Valve plans to beta test its first in-house created hardware product sometime in 2013 that will work with the recently launched Big Picture mode for its Steam service. More...

Black Mesa, the long awaited Half-Life 2 mod that is a graphical remake of the original Half-Life, was launched today but caused the brief shutdown of the game's official site. More...

Valve has finally launched the beta test of its Big Picture mode for the Steam PC game download service, with a new user interface made for large screen televisions. More...