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Former Ubisoft and LucasArts dev exits firm after 18 months
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Valve boss explains philosophy behind Half-Life company's 'boss-free' structure
Read More »Valve tightens up Steam family sharing
Valve has updated its family sharing options for Steam games, implementing a new two-step validation process. A post on Steam’s community site explains that a user’s account will now need to get clearance from the original account holder – in addition to getting authorization on the receiver’s hardware – to …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 29 – January 4
DayZ is on top of Steam’s top ten sellers list again this week – beating out another slew of discounted titles during the distributor’s end of 2013 sale. Facepunch Studio’s open world survival game Rust continues to perform well as an Early Access offering. The title rose from fourth last …
Read More »Eight-hour Steam sale doubles Q Games’ annual income
Multi-platform indie developer Q-Games saw its annual income double in the span of eight hours, thanks to a Steam community-voted sale on one of the studio’s titles. PixelJunk Eden was selected in a community vote to receive a front-page featured sale that dropped the game to $0.99 – 90 per …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 22-28
The Early Access offering of DayZ has again taken first on Steam’s best ten selling titles, making it the victor for the second week running. The feat is made more impressive by the fact that the upcoming standalone Arma II mod managed to outsell every other game on Steam – …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 15-21
Valve has released its latest top ten weekly sellers chart for Steam – with newcomer DayZ claiming the top spot from last week’s winner, Starbound. Starbound still finished in the runner-up spot, with Rust (last week’s runner-up) finishing third this time around. Steam’s end of 2013 sale also had an …
Read More »Dota 2 open to all as it hits 6.5m monthly users
Valve’s popular free-to-play MOBA title Dota 2 is now freely accessible to everybody. The developer has also revealed that the hugely successful eSports title is currently attracting some 6.5m monthly active users. For the past several months, access to Dota 2 has been granted through a queue system that gated …
Read More »Dota 2 hits 6.5m monthly users as Valve opens game for all
Player restrictions removed as developer welcomes new signups
Read More »Valve releases SteamOS beta
Linux savvy developers can begin tinkering with the living room focused, Debian-based distribution now
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