Isn’t it cute: a tiny black box with sleek, chrome-grille sides that looks a little like Apple’s Mac Mini, you know, if you pinch out the corners and squint.
Steam
Steam for Linux Is Here, Valve Celebrates by Discounting Entire Catalog
Time to do a little happy dance, Linux-heads: Valve’s Steam client for Linux is finally with us, and I don’t mean the beta.
Why a ‘Steam Box’ Game Console Would Be a Big Deal
At last, Valve has admitted it: The giant of PC gaming plans to release a living room video game console based on its Steam distribution platform.
Is Valve Really Getting into the Hardware Biz?
By all accounts — most conspicuously its own — Valve, the PC-centric games developer that brought us games like Half-Life and Portal as well as distribution service Steam, has finally admitted it’s leaping into the PC hardware …
Is Windows 8 Really a ‘Catastrophe’ for Content Creators?
Valve Software bigwig Gabe Newell has his long knives out and he’s slashing in Windows 8’s direction, going so far as to call Microsoft’s imminent operating system makeover a “catastrophe.”
It’s not the first time for Newell, …
Steam Native Linux Client Near? Gabe Newell Trashes Windows 8?
If you’re a Linux buff, you already know how to get Steam working under the scrappy Unix-like operating system using intermediary connectors like Wine, but as any Wine user knows, game performance generally suffers. What about a …
Steam Hack Worse than Thought…Three Months Later
Is this how you allay customer anxiety — by drizzling information about your service’s security problems?
Valve’s Steam gaming service forums were hacked in early November, but the company didn’t admit as much until Nov. 10, …
Steam for iOS, Android Devices Won’t Play Games, but Lets You Chat
Fingers crossed Steam operator Valve might have found a way to plonk stuff like Skyrim, Rage or Sins of a Solar Empire onto your mobile phone? Alas, the new freebie Steam client for smartphones won’t do anything like that. What …
Is Valve’s Steam Hack as Bad as the Sony PlayStation Debacle?
Valve says Steam service was hacked, admits user login and payment info may have been pilfered.
“You should watch your credit card activity and statements closely.”
Free to Be You and Me: Valve’s ‘Team Fortress 2’ Goes Gratis
Valve’s got a good thing going on two important fronts.
First, its Steam digital distribution network went from an idea viewed with skepticism to a juggernaut that’s a vital destination for developers both big and small who want to reach PC gaming audiences.
Second, as one of gaming’s most respected creative studios, they’ve …
Portal 2 Review: Our First Perfect 10
Easily the most anticipated release this year, Portal 2 follows publisher Valve’s physics-puzzler Portal, the 2007 game that instantly leapt onto Game of the Year lists and into the Best Games Ever pantheon. You played as Chell, a hapless human female made to test a teleportation gun in the Aperture Science research facility, hounded by …