Tag archive: Gabe Newell

Launched earlier this week and announced on the Steam site, Valve has started a closed beta for Steam Mobile on the iPhone and Android phones. The mobile application brings a vast amount of core functions found within the PC and Mac version of the Steam software, the most notable being the ability to make purchases through the application. This will allow any mobile Steam user to take advantage of the frequent sales that cut popular games up to… Read More

We’re not about to let ourselves get too excited, but the latest scuttlebutt from the internet that comes to us from the folks at Ubergizmo, certainly sent our hearts aflutter. It appears that a marketer at Monday Night Combat tweeted something rather interesting and hope-inspiring: the tweet showed a Valve worker wearing a Half-Life 3 t-shirt. Of course if you don’t already know, Half Life and its subsequent sequels are heralded and loved by… Read More

Valve is one of the more unique makers of video games out there, largely because the Portal and Half-Life studio also does double duty as the keymaster for PC gaming's premiere iTunes equivalent, Steam. The popular service is not without its competition OR its limitations, but most agree that Valve's approach to DRM and attitude toward piracy is somewhat more evolved that most other game development houses as a result of the… Read More

It turns out that the recent Steam forum breach is more serious than originally thought. Head of Valve Gabe Newell issued a statement today apologizing for the inconvenience and confirming that, along with the forums, the Steam database had been compromised. On Sunday, November 6, the Steam forums were defaced by what appeared to be a hacking website called Fknowned.com. The forums were plastered with the hacking website's name and offers… Read More

There's been a bit of a scuffle in recent months as Electronic Arts has built up its Origin platform as a viable competitor on the PC gaming digital distribution market. Among the more high-profile moves is the publisher's decision to stop releasing PC titles on its top PC space competitor, Valve's Steam. This includes major upcoming releases like Battlefield 3 and Mass Effect 3. Valve boss Gabe Newell recently took Origin for… Read More

If you want proof that the digital distribution of games has become big business, here it is: Steam, one of the leading game distribution platforms, has announced that it’s signed up a staggering 13 million users. Owned by the game developer Valve, Steam was originally intendedas a method for updating Valve’s multiplayer games. But it’s taken on a life of its own, and these days Steam not only carries over 150 PC games, including Half Life 2, it… Read More

Now, this is something you typically don’t get from Apple: a vision of what the company plans to enable in the future. This is because Microsoft has a massive number of hardware partners they need to convince to get behind their initiatives, while all Apple needs to do is have Steve Jobs say “jump,” and Apple hardware says “how high”. But the result is that Microsoft can touch many more things much more… Read More

According to GameIndustry.biz the primary hacker is German, but denies actually stealing the valuable source code. “While it was confirmed last month that arrests had been made in a number of countries in relation to the source code theft – which was at one point implied to be the cause of the severe delay to the game's completion, although Valve has since confirmed that they were not close to finishing the game at the… Read More

Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve's network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet, the company said. “Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved,” said Gabe Newell, Valve's CEO. “It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were… Read More

The MOBILITY RADEON 9700 was unveiled today at a product launch gala event in Taipei, Taiwan. As the first mobile graphics provider to support Microsoft DirectX9.0, ATI has a proven track record of pushing the envelope in mobile visual processing. The addition of low-k extends the company's lead in notebook graphics innovation, providing key enhancements to enable the industry's highest mobile clock speeds while reducing power… Read More

From ATI's press release: ATI Technologies Inc.today set a new industry standard with the introduction of the first low-k based graphics solution for notebook PCs. The MOBILITY RADEON 9700 was unveiled today at a product launch gala event in Taipei, Taiwan. As the first mobile graphics provider to support Microsoft DirectX9.0, ATI has a proven track record of pushing the envelope in mobile visual processing. The addition of low-k… Read More

Development studio Valve Software has seen the entire source code to Half-Life 2 – including source from some of the company's middleware partners – leaked to the Internet following a breach in the company's security. The source code bundle includes none of the game's artwork or levels; however, the entire source code for the game itself, its graphics engine and the Havok physics engine, Miles sound system and… Read More

The RADEON 9800 XT, the most powerful visual processor available, takes the award-winning RADEON 9800 architecture, the first and only to feature eight full pixel pipes, and makes it even faster. Shipping immediately, the graphics cards will feature 256MB of graphics memory and a wide, 256-bit memory interface. In addition to the brute-force capabilities of the visual processor, the architecture is efficiently designed to process… Read More

Ensuring that the long-awaited sequel to one of the industry's most groundbreaking games will not only live up to five years of anticipation, but will also give gaming enthusiasts a reason to fastentheir seatbelts in front of their PCs, Microsoft DirectX 9.0 will bring scientist Gordon Freeman and his creeping, shooting alien nemeses back to life — with the vibrant graphics and enhancedgameplay needed for a truly immersive experience… Read More

In an email, later confirmed as authentic, posted to forums on Half-Life2.net, and a later follow-up on the forum thread, Valve boss Gabe Newell confirmed that the company intends to offer an optional subscription which will grant members free additional content for Half-Life 2, delivered over the Steam digital distribution system. This content would include Valve's official modifications such as Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2,… Read More