Steam Passes 65 Million Active Accounts
Valve today announced 30% growth in active accounts during the trailing 12 months on Steam, a leading platform for PC, Mac, and Linux software. Now offering over 3,000 games and software titles to over 65 million accounts, 2013 also marked Steam’s 10 year anniversary of providing services to gamers. Expanding upon that history, Steam gamers […]
Valve Announces Steam Dev Days
Valve recently announced the Steam Dev Days conference, which will be held in Seattle, Washington in January, 2014. Steam Dev Days is a by invitation, two-day conference where video game professionals can meet in a relaxed, off the record environment to share design and industry expertise, participate in roundtable discussions, and attend lectures by industry […]
Steam Greenlight Has One Year Anniversary
Valve, creator of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Dota 2, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the one-year anniversary of Steam Greenlight, the platform feature that enlists the community’s help in selecting new titles to be released on Steam. In addition to […]
Steam service item creators to get compensation
Since the Steam Workshop launched in October of 2011, over 1,200 items created by members of the community have been made available for sale in Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2, producing over $10 million in royalties paid to item creators. Starting today, item creators in Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 Workshops may choose […]
Counter Strike Embarks On Operation Payback
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the release of "Operation Payback", the first of an ongoing series of limited-time updates aimed at giving a well-earned financial reward to some of CS:GO’s most popular and […]
Resident Evil 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 Announced
Capcom and Valve are pleased to announce the Resident Evil’ 6 x Left 4 Dead 2 project. This crossover project between two of the interactive entertainment industry’s most respected publishers will see characters from Left 4 Dead’ 2 featured exclusively in the forthcoming PC version of Resident Evil’ 6, while enemies from Resident Evil 6 […]
Steam Now Available For Linux
Valve today announced the release of its Steam for Linux client. The Steam client is now available to download for free from the Ubuntu Software Center. Ubuntu is the most popular distribution of Linux used by millions of people globally and known for its well-designed, easy-to-use customer experience. "The introduction of Steam to Ubuntu demonstrates […]
Steam Box and Piston Set Sights on Console Market
By: Chella Ramanan Xi3 has announced a dedicated machine, bringing Steam games to televisions. Dubbed Piston, the cube is apparently the size of a grapefruit and has been developed in partnership with Valve. For once, it turns out that the internet rumours of a fabled ‘Steam Box’ were true, which could put more pressure on […]
Happy Birthday, Steam Workshop
It has been one year since Steam Workshop launched as a submission path for game items created and sold by gamers. It began with Team Fortress 2, and the Workshop has quickly grown to support many others including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Portal 2, Sid Meier’s Civilization V and more with different models of […]
Gabe Newell Sends Letter To Steam Users About Hack
President of Valve Gabe Newell sent the following note to every user of the Steam service regarding the recent hack of Steam in more detail. Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users We continue our investigation of last year’s intrusion with the help of outside security experts. In my last note about this, I described […]