[Update] Half-Life 3 Trademark Filed In Europe
Update: This has now been confirmed as fake. Valve has filed a trademark application for Half-Life 3 on the EU trademark registry. Could this end the years of wanting and speculation over the flagship franchise, and its elusive sequel? We'll have to wait and see, but hopefully not for that…
Introducing The Steam Controller
Introducing the Steam controller! After a year experimenting with new ways to input in the living room, this new controller is Valves final announcement. This Steam controller is designed to work with all the games that are available on Steam, that means every game that has, will and may come…
Valve Reveals Steam Machines
"Entertainment is not a one-size-fits-all world. We want you to be able to choose the hardware that makes sense for you, so we are working with multiple partners to bring a variety of Steam gaming machines to market during 2014, all of them running SteamOS." The second of Valve's set…
Valve Announces Steam OS
The mysterious countdown on Valve's teaser site ended with the announcement that SteamOS is coming, "designed for the TV and the living room". SteamOS will work with your existing Steam account, meaning you'll be able to use your games and friends lists using Steam OS running on "any living room…
Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam
“Share your Steam library of games with close friends & family” Soon to be released as a limited beta, Steam Family Sharing will allow close friends and family members to play each other’s games. You will be able to earn your own Steam achievements and save your own game separately…
Chivalry: Medieval Warfare Gets 1.2 Million Sales and a New Content Update
A big congrats to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, we at VGU are big fans of this Medieval slash feast and it is great to see it doing so well even after all this time. As you can expect, the guys over at Torn Banner Studios are obviously really happy about this and…
Left 4 Dead 3 Shows Up On Steam
Further to our earlier article, which showed a leaked image of an internal Valve change log mentioning Left 4 Dead 3, we have now found yet more evidence to suggest that a third entry into the zombie horde series is on it's way. This image, if genuine, clearly shows Left…
Leaked Image ‘Confirms’ Left 4 Dead 3 & Source 2
Thanks to Press Start, an image of an internal change log at Valve has been leaked which supposedly confirms that Valve are working on both Left 4 Dead 3 and the Source engines replacement, imaginatively named Source 2 for now at least. As a huge fan of the Left 4…
Leadwerks’ Linux Kickstarter Reaches Over 140% Of Its Goal
Leadwerks's Kickstarter for their development tools to be made available for Linux has knocked its initial goal out of the park. The campaign was asking for backers to pledge $20,000, but that goal has been thoroughly demolished by those excited to see a completely Linux-based 3D game development environment. Currently…
Left 4 Dead 3 Teaser Site Has Appeared Online
This new Left 4 Dead site (at the address http://l4d3.ru/) has gone up online with a countdown lasting around 30 days. As you can guess from the odd url, many are doubting this sites legitimacy. Could this be real? Or is it just a hoax? Decide for yourself and check it…
Steam Summer Sale Spotlight – Encore Day
The Encore Day is upon is, this means that Steam have brought back some of the most popular deals for you to be able to snag again. Dishonored at the moment on Steam is 66% off only costing £5.09. Being one of the best games of 2012 you play as…
The Steam Summer Sale Conspiracy
Some eagle eyed fan over on Reddit has compiled a breakdown of these hidden symbols in the recent Steam Summer Sales art and cards and it leads to something that PC gamers have been waiting for. I hope it was worth the wait: Of course it was worth it! On…
Co-Op Half-Life Remake Will Be Free On Steam
In a typical example of Valve's unprecedented community outreach and support, a multiplayer remake of Half-life will be made available on Steam. Originally created as a mod for Half-Life almost 15 years ago, the modders behind "Sven Co-op" - a version of the game developed for co-operative play - today…
Dota 2 The Most Played Game on Steam By Far
It's no secret that Dota 2 is one of Valve's most successful games to date. Even during it's long 2 year beta it was still a very popular game on Steam. After launching earlier this week Dota 2's playing numbers have blown every game out of the water, even with the…
Valve Pipeline Released
The Valve Pipeline is a new idea by Valve created in order to help and forge a connection between Valve and the community who may wish to get a job in the game industry. It is also partly an experiment to see if a bunch of high school students can…
Dota 2 launches after 2 year beta
After a long 2 years spent in sort-of-open-sort-of-closed beta Dota 2 has finally been released as a full finished game. The recent news article on Dota 2's Steam page says 'No, Really: DOTA 2's Beta is Over.' Valve kept their promise of fully releasing the game some time before the…
Find out how much time you’ve spent on Steam games
The appropriately named website wastedonsteam.com allows Steam account users to put in their Steam ID and see many statistics they want (or don't want) to know about themselves. The site shows you how many hours you've played all together, your most played games, even the current estimated worth of your Steam…
Team Fortress 2 Developers Decide to Explain Their Upcoming Huge Update
"If you'd rather not get spoiled on whether or not there's an update coming soon, you'd better not read the rest of this sentence, and you also might want to skip directly to the last paragraph of this post. Then also don't read it, because SPOILER: This post is allllllll…
Valve to attend Gamescom
Valve have announced that they will be attending Gamescom 2013 which of course has sparked excitement from the game developer's extensive fan base. It was only a week ago that new theories of Half-Life 3's release date were riled up again thanks to a cryptic ingame message from Valve developers.…
8 More Games Have Been Approved by Steam Greenlight
The 8 New titles that have just been added to Steam are: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Day One : Garry’s Incident Guncraft Homesick In Verbis Virtus Super Motherload Vector Verdun Some very interesting titles here, make sure you check them out if you get the chance! Do you support…
8 More Games Have Been Approved by Steam Greenlight
The 8 New titles that have just been added to Steam are: Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller Day One : Garry’s Incident Guncraft Homesick In Verbis Virtus Super Motherload Vector Verdun Some very interesting titles here, make sure you check them out if you get the chance! Do you support…