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It might just be the global games industry’s favourite new mantra, but to Valve the concept of ‘games as a service’ is frankly antiquated. Whereas Activision has only just launched its service platform in Call of Duty Elite and EA is barely getting started with Origin, Valve has been serving …
Read More »EA and Valve battling for Wii U online exclusivity?
It’s perhaps one of the more far-fetched games rumours you’ll read today, but there’s no denying it’s a delicious one. Blog WiiUGo, which has before leaked accurate information, reckons that publishers EA and Valve are currently engaged in a fierce bidding war to secure exclusive rights to Nintendo’s online service …
Read More »Dominant Steam accounts for 80% of Witcher 2 sales
PC fantasy adventure game sells 240,000 digital copies in six months
Read More »Valve confirms Steam hacker attack
Valve has confirmed rumours circulating earlier this week that hackers have compromised the Steam network and, most worryingly, a database of information and personal data was compromised. A plundered Steam database, managed by games giant Valve, contains information including user names, hashed and salted passwords, game purchases, email addresses, billing …
Read More »Steam hacked – Valve customer data compromised
Email and billing addresses, encrypted passwords and personal data has been breached
Read More »Hackers accused of Steam forum assault
Valve’s Steam forums are currently offline, and users have accused a hacking group of being responsible. Eurogamer reports that the email from Steampowered.com was distributed to some users: "Ever wanted to dominate the servers you play on with guaranteed results, but you were too afraid to cheat because of ban …
Read More »Steam forums suspended after alleged hack
Web space redirected to hacker site before shutdown
Read More »UKIE chairman hails ‘world-class’ British devs
Rocksteady and Sports Interactive games first and third in UK sales chart
Read More »EA to sell rivals’ games through digital distribution
Electronic Arts will soon start selling games made by its competitors. The company’s new Origin platform for digital distribution will offer games from Warner, THQ and Capcom with the first first games out next month. Batman: Arkham City and Saints Row: The Third are two of the triple-A games destined …
Read More »Free-to-play for core gamers ‘generates more cash’
Valve perplexed by extraordinary conversion rate for Team Fortress 2
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