Half-Life: Alyx – The $1500 Video Game You’ll Probably Never Play

Half-Life: Alyx was released today in what feels like one of the strangest watershed moments in recent video game history.

Alyx is the first new official entry into the Half-Life narrative released in the last 13 years. For so … Read More

Steam Can Now Help You Decide What To Play

Today Steam announced the “Play Next” experiment that uses an algorithm to help you decide what games you should play. This process uses similar technology to the Interactive Recommender Valve released some time ago. While I’ve … Read More

Can Valve’s First “3” Be Portal 3?

Nearly nine years ago we were once against tossed into the broken down laboratories of Aperture Science with Portal 2. The game followed up a franchise introduction that practically created the bar for puzzle platforming. Puzzle games, especially those from the first-person … Read More

Half-Life: Alyx Is Built Entirely to Sell You VR

Don’t get me wrong, the trailer for Half-Life: Alyx looks great. It seems like it is channeling just enough Half-Life 2 to make it immediately appealing to fans, but it also leaves no doubt that it’s a full-blown … Read More

Dota 2 tournament focus of documentary ‘Free to Play’ from Valve

Valve has released a documentary film titled “Free to Play” that focuses on the Dota 2 International Tournament. The film premiered on Weds., March 19 during the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, and was then made available for … Read More

More Steam Greenlights

The third batch of Greenlight games has been announced, as well as the first batch of software.

New Steam Greenlight Games (see all Greenlit games here)

• Blackspace
• Darkfall Unholy Wars
• Dawn of Fantasy
• Dragon’s Lair
• Euro Truck Simulator … Read More

Valve Announces First 10 Greenlight Games

Valve has announced the first 10 games to be successfully greenlit. And here they are:

• Black Mesa – Enhanced remake of Half-Life 1 using the Source engine.
• Cry of Fear – Singleplayer survival horror game using the Half-Life 1 … Read More

First Impressions: Steam Big Picture Mode Beta

Valve’s Big Picture Mode for Steam has entered beta. Is it any good?

One of the features of Steam’s new Big Picture Mode is the ability to use a gamepad to browse your library of games, surf the Internet and … Read More

Meet the Truly Demented Mind of the Pyro

Valve released the last video in their “Meet this Character” video series and the final video blows the series out with a bang. “Meet the Pyro” is both the hilariously fun and scary demented. (Kind of makes you wondering what … Read More