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Digital PC and Mac platform passes 40 million user mark
Read More »NEW YEAR, NEW JOB: Gabe Newell’s best advice for aspiring devs
The Valve founder shares his wisdom as part of Develop's new series of job-hunting tips
Read More »Steam hits new record – 5 million concurrent users
Platform boosted by Skyrim and Christmas sale bonanza
Read More »New indie PC platform ‘ends discoverability woes’
Amazon-like recommendation engine 'gives all devs a fair chance'; Royalty rate at 15-25%
Read More »Newell: Piracy is a non-issue for Valve
Valve boss Gabe Newell has challenged the notion that software pricing is the driving force behind games piracy. Instead, Newell insists that piracy can be conquered with a sufficiently strong service offering. "We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy,” he told The Cambridge Student, as spotted by GameSpy. …
Read More »Newell: Piracy a ‘non issue’ for Valve
Illicit file sharing 'a service problem and not a pricing problem'
Read More »Stardock hits coming to Steam
The creator of the Impulse digital distribution service, Stardock, is releasing its titles on Steam. Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity is the first game to go live on Valve’s rival system, now available at a 25 per cent discount. The same offer is running on Impulse to promote the …
Read More »Capcom backs Origin with key franchises
Support from THQ and Warner Bros to follow
Read More »Burnout Paradise goes free in EA Origin push
Trial offer as EA tries to build buzz around its Steam rival
Read More »INTERVIEW: Jason Holtman, Valve
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 …
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