The awesome guys at Valve sent us more Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta keys for you guys and galls, but this time you will also get a chance to win the awesome Razer Deathadder mouse that is specially designed for FPS games. In total, there are 20 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive beta keys and 3 Razer Deathadder mouses. In order to be eligible to win those prizes, the...
*Updated* Details of Valve’s Rumoured Console “Steam Box” Leaking Out
*Update* Well I was both wrong and right about Valve’s alleged Steam Box. In a conversation with Stephen Kotillo of Kotaku, Valve’s PR guru Doug Lombardi simultaneously confirmed and quashed the rumours, stating that while a Steam-specific console “is stuff that we’re working on…it’s a long way from Valve shipping any sort of hardware.” So it is technically something that...
Mass Effect 3 PC to be Available Solely Through Origin
If you were paying attention to the growing hostilities between Valve’s Steam and EA’s Origin services, I believe you could call this “an escalation”. It was officially announced earlier this week that if you wanted to get a hold of Mass Effect 3 for your PC, you were only able to get it through Origin, even though both preceding...
Steam users be warned! YOU MAY BE AT RISK!
Today, out of the blue, we received an email from Valve that outlined what seems to have been a huge security breach with their hit computer dash Steam. The email was labbeled as “IM from Gabe”, so I knew it was serious before clicking “read”. We will never escape a world filled with these kinds of issues, and these kinds...
Origin is Going to be Just Like Steam… Good Luck With That
Recently there has been some bad blood between Electronic Arts and Valve. EA titles keep disappearing from Steam, Valve’s online game distribution centre and crowbar store, as EA complains that Valve’s terms of service limit how the developers interact with their customers. With the recent advent of Origin, EA’s own online content service, you may have thought that Electronic Arts...
Modern Warfare 3 Coming to Steam
Valve, the most gracious of video games hosts, announced today that the PC version of Activision’s much anticipated title, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, will be released on Steam. This means that you can now reserve your copy on Steam and have it ready to play in the early hours of November 8, when it is scheduled for a...
Waiter? There Appears to be Some Portal in my Bastion
Did you enjoy Portal 2? Of course you did. I would also be right in saying that you loved Bastion, which premiered in this year’s Summer of Arcade on XBLA? But of course you did. Well, if you played and enjoyed these two games then I have some extra special surprises for you. First, for those who purchased Bastion on Steam...
This Portal 2 Proposal Will get Something Stuck in Both Your Eyes
This has got to be one of the most geeky and romantic things I have ever seen, and I’m not talking about light saber duels as the couple’s first dance kind of geeky, or proposing in Klingon geeky. This isn’t embarrassing, it is proper geeky, it’s classy and heartwarming. A man named Gary Hudston commissioned a couple of very talented...
Team Na’Vi takes home The International’s $1 million prize
Within the background of Gamescom 2011 has been The International, the live-streamed DOTA 2 championship hosted by the game’s creator, Valve. With the prize being a check for a full million dollars, the competition was intense between the world’s best 16 teams. In the end, after a thrilling final match with China’s Ehome team, the Ukranian team Na’Vi came out...
Portal Co-Creator to Reveal New Game at PAX Prime
If you don’t know who Kim Swift is, and you’re reading this website, then you probably should. She was part of the group that created Narbacular Drop, a final project she helped complete at the gaming college Digipen. A short presentation and a heart-stopping job offer from Gabe Newell of Valve later, and that game’s core mechanic turned into Portal,...
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive announced
YAY! NEW COUNTER-STRIKE! If you’re a fan of shooters, you’ve probably at least heard of the Counter Strike series. The bizarrely popular multiplayer Valve shooter was simple and cheap, and still has many players running the servers of 2004’s installment (Counter-Strike: Source). Today, about seven years after that game’s release, Valve has revealed a new game for the series, Counter-Strike: Global...