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Steam giant keeps quiet on staff exits
Read More »Newell offers assurances as 25 – including Jason Holtman – leave Valve
Half-Life developer and Steam owner Valve last night laid off around 25 staff, chief amongst them being director of business development Jason Holtman. Holtman has been at Valve since 2005 and was crucial to the company’s developer relations – clearly a job he had done well judging by the incredible, …
Read More »[Update] Holtman latest to leave in Valve twist, says source
Examination of employee list shows eight more potential departures
Read More »Valve fires hardware engineer Jeri Ellsworth
Steam Box controller prototype staffer exits studio after just over a year
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: February 3-9
Valve has announced the latest weekly top ten sellers chart on Steam. Skyrim’s Dragonborn add-on sits on top of the list again this week, as a discounted Borderlands 2 couldn’t quite overtake the DLC during its PC launch week. A discounted Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finished just behind in third, and …
Read More »VIDEO: PC is ‘centre of innovation’, says Newell
Valve founder outlines his company's plans for the platform
Read More »Valve and JJ Abrams join forces
The filmmaker behind Star Trek, Cloverfield, and television’s Fringe and Lost could be going into games development. In the opening session at the DICE conference today, JJ Abrams appeared alongside Valve boss Gabe Newell, and the two nonchalantly spoke of the possibility of movies based on Half-Life and Portal. The …
Read More »JJ Abrams teams up with Valve
Half-Life and Portal movies on the table as filmmaker considers dive into game development
Read More »Newell wants to end ‘dictatorship’ of Steam
Valve boss says user should be shop curator, not corporations
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: January 27 – February 2
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the week ending on February 2nd, revealing a pair of new releases have made their mark on the chart this time around. Indie Antichamber fired out of the starting gate late last week to claim the fourth spot on the list, while …
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