News tagged with Valve (10 results)
Valve Unveils Steamworks
Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announce Steamworks, a complete suite of publishing and development tools – ranging from copy protection to social networking services to server browsing ...
How Valve Got Steamed
This Valve Q&A on GamesIndustry.biz talks with Valve's Doug Lombardi about a
variety of topics, learning along the way that Valve was actually looking to
industry leaders for a digital distribution scheme to suit their needs before
deciding they needed create Steam for themselves after r...
Valve Q&A
The Valve
Q&A on Computer and Video Games talks with Valve's Doug Lombardi about
what's in the pipes at Valve, including the highly anticipated Portal sequel and
Half-Life 2: Episode Three. On interesting answer concerns whether they'll
diversify from the FPS genre at some point:I think ...
Valve Hardware Survey
New Valve Hardware
Survey Results are online. If you guessed that half a percent of all
respondents reported using VIA/S3G UniChrome Pro integrated graphics, you'd be
correct.
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Valve on PC Gaming
Doug Lombardi on PC
Gaming on Shacknews talks with the Valve marketing maven about the state of
PC gaming. Doug repeats the assertion that this is a perception problem, as they
have a tough time hearing the cries that PC gaming is dying as they laugh all
the way to the bank:I mean, I think, ...
Valve on PC Gaming
Valve Steps Up, Defends
PC Gaming on IGN is an extensive article based on an interview with Valve
honcho Gabe Newell, focusing on the state of PC gaming. Valve remains
steadfastly positive about he platform, with Newell again pointing out that
digital distribution and MMOG subscription fees ...
Valve on Being Acquired
A Q&A with
Valve's Lombardi Gamasutra from yesterday (thanks Ant and
Play.tm) makes mention of Valve's
openness to being acquired, though it seems like this is more an answer to a
hypothetical question, rather than an indication that a deal for the developer
is in the works. On being ac...
Rumor: Valve & Google?
The INQUIRER cites "well placed sources" saying Google is going to be buying
Valve "any second now." This is speculation from a site that specializes in
such, but
Edge
Online has picked up the story from them, so this will spread. According to
INQ's well placed source ...
Valve on the Google Rumor
We got a reply from Valve to our inquiry about the rumor circulating this
morning that Google was seeking to acquire Valve (story).
According to spokesperson Doug Lombardi, this is just a rumor: "It's nothing
more than rumor. Valve is focused on making Left 4 Dead a great product and
su...
Valve DRM Q&A
Kotaku's Doug
Lombardi Q&A discusses DRM with the Valve spokesperson in light of the
controversy about this aspect of Spore. They discuss the growing pains
with DRM Valve experienced when they launched Steam, the fact that DRM for
downloadable games is probably here to stay, and as a poi...
