Tag: Valve
Valve not announcing anything at this year’s E3
Valve representative Doug Lombardi has told Joystiq that Valce has no special announcements planned for this year's E3. "We have no product announcements planned for this year's show," said Lombardi, thus officially putting a stop to any rumors about anything Half Life 3 related.
This report also confirms an e-mail exchange between Gabe Newell and a fan, published over at Valvetime.net, where Gabe claims the...
Gabe is finally talking Half-Life 3, in his own cryptic way
In a podcast interview with Seven Day Cooldown, Gabe Newell (Valve's co-founder) has discussed the difficulties the company experienced during the development of Ricochet 2. When translated from "Gabe-speech", Ricochet 2 roughly means Half Life 3.
“In terms of Ricochet 2, we always have this problem that when we talk about things too far in advance,” Newell said.
“We end up changing our minds as we're...
Valve isn’t building a Steam Box after all
You all remember the rumors about Valve Software building its very own console, right? Well, it's time to put that rumor to bed, and let all of the pent up excitement out (or breathe a sigh of relief if you are Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo).
Doug Lombardi, Valve's marketing director told Kotaku that the company isn't working on any new hardware at this point. "We're...
Rumor: Valve may be working on its very own home console
The three big console manufactures: Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, may soon have some serious competition on their hands. According to an article over at The Verge, Valve Software (Half Life, Portal) is currently working on its very own set-top console, named "Steam Box".
The site's source claims that the Steam Box will be able to run PC games and use Steam or...
Valve announce Counter-Strike Global Offensive
Roughly, twenty-four hours ago, A news post was released on Steam in which Valve announced the development of a slightly old, slightly new, title by the name of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, on which they are working in cooperation with Hidden Path Entertainment (the same guys who also worked with them to bring you Counter-Strike: Source).
According to the post, CS:...
Portal 2 mod tools now available!
Valve have posted on Tuesday on the Portal 2 blog that the beta version of the Portal 2 modding tools have become available to everyone. These are the same modding tools Valve used in creating the game, and they allow users to create single player and co-op maps, new skins for the characters, and more. The tools are now...
Free DLC for Portal 2 arriving this summer
Last night (Friday) Valve released a statement that will thrill those who enjoyed Portal 2. In the statement it was said that the first DLC (with the actual name of "DLC#1 Pack" for now) for the game will be released this summer, and will be free for all consoles.
The DLC will include new test chambers, a leaderboard, new challenge...
Intrigue surrounding Portal 2 still far from over
17th of April, 2011
Most of the Portal 2 fan base thought it would end here. We will play with the Potato Sack, manage to expedite the release of Portal 2 by a short amount of time and then all this intrigue will be behind us. Valve, apparently, have different plans in mind.
The big team of people who solved the...
Harness the power of your PC and help Portal 2 release sooner
16th of April, 2011
After a long line of mysterious riddles and clues that surrounded Portal 2 (about which you can read here or there), it seems that we have reached the final phase. The clues have led the community to a page where a countdown has appeared, and which later changed to look like this. A the pages shows,...