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Valve has launched its crowdsource-based indie game selection application Steam Greenlight. The site had around two dozen titles listed shortly after launch this morning, and at current stands at 379 games. "We’ve been working on this feature for the last few months with the input from a group of indie …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: August 19-25
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the week prior. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive stays on the offensive, holding off Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for the top spot this time around. Pre-orders hit for War of the Roses this week, with Paradox’s upcoming title nabbing the sixth spot. …
Read More »Steam Big Picture mode enters beta next month
Steam’s Big Picture mode for televisions will be in the hands of users sometime next month, Valve has announced. Valve designer Greg Coomer revealed in an interview with GTTV that a beta for the application will arrive sometime in September. "In early September you’ll be able to hop into a …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: August 12-18
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the past week, with the latest in the Counter-Strike franchise holding its position at the top of the heap. ArmA II (runner-up) continues to sell as well while in the midst of many happenings for its popular DayZ mod. Elsewhere on the …
Read More »DotA 2 documentary unveiled as Valve’s movie project
Valve has confirmed previous reports and teases that the company is in production on a gaming-related film, unveiling a documentary focused on pro circuit players competing in the annual Dota 2 tournament The International. Gabe Newell revealed that his company is producing the film on GTTV late last week, providing …
Read More »Valve registers Gamer Life: The Movie domains, reveal may be incoming
Valve appears to be prepping an announcement for an esports focused film documentary—an announcement that could very well arrive in the next 24 hours. LamdaGeneration reports that back in July the company registered two domain names for ‘gamerlifemovie.com’ and ‘gamerlifethemovie.com,’ with both domains receiving an update last week. It was …
Read More »UK indie’s first person survival horror game Routine revealed
A brand new survival horror game has come to life that looks to challenge the likes of Day Z in the hardcore gaming stakes. The title is called Routine. It’s being developed by UK startup Lunar Software, which was founded in September 2011 by former Eurocom developer Aaron Foster. The …
Read More »Indies should start on PC, says Frozen Synapse dev
Its open nature and the reach of Steam make PC the ideal place for fledgling devs
Read More »Mode 7 Games on the aftermath of Frozen Synapse
Co-founder Paul Taylor on how the indie game became a red-hot success
Read More »Steam update to showcase user-generated content
Valve will present the community's best with new Hub pages
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