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"...an expansive set of social networking and online multiplayer features available for free on Steam", says the dev.
Valve's new community features for Steam, which have been going through beta testing, are now on full release - for free.
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Nintendo's work on peripherals is something that's really missing on PC, says Gabe Newell.
'Let's have Nintendo-style innovation with input devices for PC', appears to be the call from Valve Software as it highlights this as a key area where the platform lags behind its console cousins.
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Beta test next week for all Orange Box pre-purchases.
Reporting Live from Valve towers in Bellevue: the house of Half-Life has confirmed that a fully-fledged Team Fortress beta is coming ahead of the game's release next month - for everyone who pre-purchases The Orange Box on Steam.
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You might not have expected the developer to pick this one out.
Ah, personal definitive moments from the Half-Life games. Whether it be the 'Test Chamber' sequence that spawned the original Freeman adventure or Barney chucking you the crowbar in Half-Life 2 which sent a little shiver down the spine, we all have our most favourite sequences from Valve's first-person shooter series.
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Watch the new Xbox 360 demo of the long, long-coming shooter in action.
A demo of Vivendi's long, long-coming FPS Timeshift has arrived on Xbox Live Marketplace, causing us at CVG to get happy with our ridiculously expensive video capture card.
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Security, reliability and performance improvements promised in first service pack update.
PC gamers continue to eye Windows Vista with scepticism but that may change when Microsoft releases its first service pack update for the new operating system.
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Brutal close-quarters combat promised in Zeno Clash, which is set in a "punk fantasy world".
Valve's Source technology is acting as the foundation for new first-person action game Zeno Clash, which is in development for PC at Chile-based ACE Team.
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"Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done," a stern Gabe Newell tells CVG.
You probably hammered Bioshock on either PC of Xbox 360 all weekend, but the FPS masters at Valve had no such luck; a ban has been imposed on them going anywhere near 2K's shooter until Half-Life: Episode Two and The Orange Box are finished and out the door.
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Does the Half-Life developer have a game plan for Nintendo's console?.
Valve Software has hinted that Nintendo's Wii will factor into its development plans in the future, Gabe Newell describing the console as "more valuable" than Xbox 360 and PS3.
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"Too many of the teams are starting out with overly ambitious designs", says the Half-Life developer.
Valve Software is a developer that's always been a keen supporter of the PC mod scene, but it reckons mod teams are setting personal bars too high, leading to the perception that the mod scene is on the decline.
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