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 native Linux client, long rumored but so far a no-show?
Valve’s Steam gaming service forums were hacked in early November, but the company didn’t admit as much until four days after the hack occurred — three months later, the other shoe drops.
Fingers crossed Steam operator Valve might have found a way to plonk stuff like Skyrim, Rage or Sins of a Solar Empire on your mobile phone? Alas, the new freebie Steam client for smartphones won’t do anything like that. What it will do, however, is let you buy Steam games from your phone and chat with pals on the go.
When Valve revealed last night that its Steam online gaming service had been hacked and a database with user login and credit card info gutted, was anyone surprised?
Valve’s Gabe Newell, in a post on the Steam User’s Forums announcing that hackers “obtained access to a Steam database.”
Since Valve introduced co-op play to Portal 2, it’s fair to say that the mind-bending physics puzzler’s brought people together. But Gary Hudston had something even more permanent in mind.
Valve’s got a good thing going on two important fronts.
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 a [...]
Have you seen what Valve’s done with the Steam version of Portal 2? You may have heard something about early downloading for those who pre-ordered this hotly-anticipated sequel over Valve’s Steam network, and how an intricate ARG (alternate reality game) in the run-up to release led players on a merry chase. There was a countdown [...]
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Valve Software–the game development house responsible for classics like Half-Life 2, Team Fortress and Portal–shifted the axis of game distribution when they launched their Steam digital delivery platform in 2002. Since then, Steam’s become an additional distribution channel for big publishers as well as a place for small indie developers to find an audience.
