The past two days have brought two updates from Valve: one for Team Fortress 2 and the other for the Steam Client. One point of note in the list of changes for the TF2 update is that the health bonus that previously came packaged with the unlockable backburner has been removed. Also, from now on […]
Gamasutra have posted a thoughtful Q&A with Doug Lombardi in which he talks about Valve’s acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios (now Valve South) and their creative relationship with Mike Booth and his team. Naturally Lombardi gives a glowing report of the merger: Gamasutra:What’s it like having Turtle Rock now officially part of Valve, versus what […]
Valve have used their Team Fortress 2 blog to give a tip of the hat to their fans, specifically TF2 forum-goers and community member Kaanin, who a while ago fabricated a convincing promotional page for a non-existent Spy update (below).
Novint, the creators and developers of the revolutionary Novint Falcon force feedback controller, have partnered up with Valve Software to bring full support to all Source engine games. ?Recently we?ve seen how new interfaces have changed gaming. The Falcon adds a new level of interaction for PC gaming, adding compelling force feedback while maintaining controls […]
In an interview with CVG.com, VP of Marketing Doug Lombardi of Valve Software mentioned the company’s desire to break from the traditional first-person-shooter genre of games that have made their empire what it is and take a shot (excuse the pun) at children’s games on the Nintendo Wii. “We all play the Wii a […]
I’m sure many of you reading this can look back and remember the introduction of Steam. We were used to the stable WON Network, manually updating our Half-Life clients, and we were happy with it all. Steam came pre-loaded with loads of bugs, ineffective and unreliable content servers, and caused only headaches for us all. […]
According to the most recent Steam Survey, a large majority of Steam users are using nVidia video cards and other hardware. In an effort to further strengthen the ties between the software and hardware Giants, Valve and nVidia have partnered up to collaborate on development (making Source games more tailored to nVidia hardware) and promotional […]