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Valve’s track record with its distribution platform Steam has Blizzard COO Paul Sams excited about the potential surrounding the company’s Steam Machines initiative. Speaking with GameSpot at Blizzard’s annual BlizzCon gathering, Sams explained that Valve’s proven itself to be the only organization that could pull off its mission statement to …
Read More »Steam controllers won’t go third-party
Valve won’t let third parties design and sell their own Steam controllers like it’s encouraging them to do with Steam machines, the company has revealed. In aninterview with IGN, Valve’s Greg Coomer said his company will supply Steam Controllers to third-parties that want to make their own Steam Machines. The …
Read More »Valve says no to third-party Steam Controllers
Dual-touchpad input device won't be trusted to third-parties, says Valve's Greg Coomer
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: November 3-9
Call of Duty: Ghosts is unsurprisingly at the top of Valve’s latest Steam weekly top sellers chart, beating out last week’s winner Football Manager 2014. The sports simulator still nabbed the runner-up spot, beating out State of Decay, Total War: Rome II, and Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag –with the …
Read More »Valve opens beta registrations for Steam in-home streaming
Beta begins later this year; participants to be chosen at random
Read More »Mixamo’s character creator Fuse comes to Steam
Valve adds fully customisable Team Fortress 2 models to animation tech
Read More »Breaking the Steam monopoly
For many, the first word that comes to mind when discussing digital games is Steam. The Valve-owned digital distribution platform celebrates its tenth anniversary this year having opened its virtual doors back in September 2003. Since then, the success of the service has skyrocketed. Its most recent figures reveal there …
Read More »Creative Assembly confirms Total War: Rome II SteamOS release
A SteamOS version of Total War: Rome II will launch early next year, developer The Creative Assembly has announced. The studio’s brand manager Rob Bartholomew revealed the news on Steam’s community site, adding that the game will support the recently revealed Steam Controller as soon as it can. "We’ve always …
Read More »No exclusive killer apps for SteamOS, says Valve
Half-Life developer encouraging third-party partners to be content and platform-agnostic
Read More »No killer app for SteamOS, says Valve
Studio says it will not be making SteamOS exclusive games. Valve’s designer Greg Coomer confirmed in an interview with IGN that the developer would not be making an exclusive killer app for SteamOS”. Coomer went on to state that such a practice would be against Valve’s philosophy and the studio …
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