Articles Tagged with Valve

Razer Edge Gaming Tablet Comes Equipped With Steam

Razer Edge Gaming Tablet Comes Equipped With Steam [Razer Edge]

The Razer Edge gaming tablet is coming with Valve’s steam software already loaded. The tablet that has already been billed as a full fledged gaming computer took a big step towards legitimacy with this particular detail. This gaming tablet was first introduced at the 2013 CES, and, since that introduction, people have been trying to… Read more »

Xi3 Reponds To Valve Comments About Piston

Xi3 responds to Valve

Xi3 has responded to comments about their new Piston PC gaming device that Valve made yesterday. Valve, the company that owns and operates Steam, issued a statement on Tuesday which made it clear that they no longer had any involvement with the Piston. Whether the leaders at Xi3 felt that their company was being unfairly… Read more »

Piston Steam Box Launching This Holiday Season

Piston steam box launching wiht $1,000 price tag

The Piston Steam Box is now officially available for order. Xi3′s answer to the gaming console was officially announced back in January, but now the device has a price tag and a launch date. The Piston is the first PC that is specially engineered to allow you to play video games on your television. Valve,… Read more »

Valve Fires Two Dozen Android, Hardware Staffers

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Gaming company Valve has fired several dozen employees from its Android and hardware divisions. While an initial report from Gamasutra claimed “several” employees had been terminated, new reports are suggesting upwards of 25 employees were given the boot. A tweet from hardware designer Jeri Ellsworth confirmed the layoffs with a simple note: “Yup. Got fired… Read more »

Steam Kicks Off Halloween Sale, Lasts Until October 31

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Valve has been known to put together a sale or two around the holiday season, and this year is no different. This week, the company kicked off a Halloween-themed sale over on Steam with a selection of titles intended to give you a scare — or at least remind you that Halloween is upon us…. Read more »

Valve Job Listing Hints At Hardware Development

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Earlier on in the year, there was talk that Valve was considering getting into the console business with a sort of “Steam Box.” Unfortunately, that turned out to be false, but, going by a new job listing, it looks like Valve is up to something. In the listing, Valve flat-out says that it’s looking into… Read more »

Team Fortress 2 Adding A Robot Faction

Team Fortress 2 Adds Robots As The Third Team

Popular free to play, first person shooter Team Fortress 2 will be adding robots as the game’s third faction. The new co-operative mode with allow five players to form a group and take on hordes of very angry robots. Game developer Valve released more information on Monday, as a follow up to the mysterious Grey… Read more »

Dota 2 Confirmed To Be Free To Play, Dota Store Launched

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it was expected that Valve would be launching Dota 2 as a free to play game, but now it’s official: Valve confirmed that Dota 2 will be free to play, and now we can get an idea of what sort of microtransactions we can expect to see at launch. Rather than following in the footsteps… Read more »

Blizzard Entertainment And Valve Settle “Dota” Trademark Lawsuit

Defense Of The Ancients Trademark Lawsuit

Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment have settled a lawsuit over the ‘Dota’ label. Under terms of the agreement the Defense of the Ancients name will be used by both company’s in different ways. For example Valve will be able to use toe ‘Dota’ label on a commercial level for products such as the upcoming action… Read more »

Portal 2 Puzzle Editor Coming to PC and Mac Next Month

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We haven’t heard much from Valve about Portal 2‘s upcoming in-game map editor DLC since its announcement back in October of last year, but today Valve announced that the “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will be making its way to PC and Mac next month. To be specific, Valve says that the Portal 2 map editor will… Read more »

The power of Steam

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If you are a gamer then chances are you know about Valve’s Steam ...