Tag: Valve
Apple and Valve joining forces for gaming MacBook Pro?
Here's a tasty little snippet of info flying around the web today. Apple CEO Tim Cook recently took a visit to Valve HQ, the team responsible for the games Half Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead, as well as the…
Q&A: Gamefly co-founder Sean Spector on digital subscriptions, Steam and the indie gaming boom
Gamefly, the USA's leading videogame rental service, has made the jump over the pond and are looking to take old Blighty by storm with their digital PC games download platform and forth-coming digital subscription service. We caught up with…
Valve may enter the gaming hardware race
Valve, the company almost single handedly keeping PC gaming alive, are considering moving into the hardware market if innovation in the computer gaming hardware sector fails to meet their lofty ambitions. Gabe Newell, co-founder of the company behind Half…
VIDEO: Steam Mobile app (Android) hands-on preview
Gerald takes a look at the new, free Steam Mobile app from Valve, which gives gamers on-the-go access to the popular PC gaming platform. Running through the features of the Android version (though available on iOS devices like the…
Steam PC gaming platform getting iPhone and Android app
Valve have announced that their Steam PC gaming platform will soon be accessible through an iOS iPhone and Android app. Though available to download now from Apple's App Store and the Android Market, Steam Mobile's full features are currently only…
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ships 10 million
For a game as gigantic as Bethesda's role-player The Elder Scolls V: Skyrim, nothing can be more fitting than news of gigantic shipping stats from Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media. Today they've announced that Skyrim has shipped a whopping 10…
Think Geek reveal Portal 2 bookends for your test chamber
Experiencing some cognitive deterioration? That's probably because you're not reading enough books. Know why you're not reading enough books? You don't have your library sandwiched between these nifty Portal 2 bookends. Available now over at Think Geek, they take the…
Steam hit by hack attack
The online game download service Steam has been hit by a major attack from a group of hackers who are rumoured to have accessed databases containing credit card and ID details. Steam is a service that allows users to…
OFFICIAL: Battlefield 3 will not be available through Steam
It's official; EA will not be distributing their massively anticipated war shooter Battlefield 3 through Steam, Valve's digital game store that has become by far the most popular PC online game purchasing platform. EA have made this decision as they…
Steam PC game keys will work with EA's Origin platform
The online-PC-game-downloads-platform-war (phew!) takes an interesting turn this morning after some unexpected features have made themselves known on EA's new Origin service. According to PC Gamer, some game activiation keys nabbed through rival service Steam will work with Origin,…