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Valve's relaunched game ends Counter-Strike's impressive Steam reign

Develop sources: Microsoft is preparing microtransaction system

Valve explains to Develop why it relaunched Team Fortress 2 as free-to-play forever

Triple-A becomes free-to-play, but Valve may not push the model to other blockbusters

Gabe Newell pleased with new consoleâ??s graphics performance

Valve has become the latest games firm to show interest in Nintendo’s newest console. Speaking to Joystiq, at the Games for Change Festival, the company’s head and co-founded Gabe Newell said that the Wii U fits into Valve’s scalability model”. Wii U seems to be a lot more powerful than …

Valve’s recent release and critical hit Portal 2 has now sold in excess of 3m copies. The number comes from Gabe Newell himself and was revealed at the Games for Change event at New York yesterday, according to Joystiq. It’s understood that it covers both boxed retail and digital sales …

Publishing giant suggests Steam business terms are draconian

Publisher EA has denied that it took the decision to remove Crysis 2 from Valve’s download service Steam. Yesterday it was reported that EA had taken the game off Valve’s portal and instead put it on its own Origin download service, complete with the slogan "Buy Now – Only on …

Wealthy Washington group launches new revenue model on PC store