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Valve opened up its new Steam Holiday Auction system earlier today and swiftly had to shut it back down after users discovered an exploit in the system. The auction is designed to let users recycle community items in their inventory in order to receive gems to bid on Steam games. …

While you should all know that the Steam sale is going to be gracing us on the 18th of December, as Matthew let us know a few hours ago, Valve also has something else in it's Christmas stocking to keep us off the naughty list. Starting this Monday the 15th of December, you will …

Gamers, its time to prepare your wallets as the Steam winter sale is coming next week on the 18th of December. Things will kick off at 6pm GMT and will run all the way until the 2nd of January 2015. The news started making the rounds earlier today when a …

Valve is moving in to the games broadcasting space, having launched its new live streaming beta service, Steam Broadcasting. Steam users can now opt to let friends watch gameplay or start up a completely public stream, allowing anyone to watch via the community hub. The integration will greatly simplify the …

Valve has changed the rules for trading Steam gifts, which will supposedly put a stop or at least hurt businesses attempting to swiftly re-sell game keys as gifts. All new games purchased as a gift will be stored in the buyer's inventory for 30 days before it can sold or …

Valve has sent out an updated copy of its terms and conditions to developers looking to use the Steam Early Access program. The new rules and guidelines are aimed to help consumers out a bit more with more transparency from developers on projects. The updated rules recognizes that unforeseen circumstances …

Earlier this year, Valve showed up at CES with a bunch of Steam Machines to talk a little more about its plans and show off the controller. The controller and OS have since been delayed but it doesn't look like we will be hearing anything new in January as Valve …

Ubisoft and Valve Software have returned three of Ubisoft's soon-to-be bestsellers to Steam online store on Saturday after they were removed from the system on Thursday and Friday. Neither Ubisoft, nor Valve have made any official statements on the matter. Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4, and The Crew – the titles …

Yesterday it came to light that Ubisoft's upcoming holiday lineup of titles, including Assassin's Creed Unity, Far Cry 4 and The Crew, were all removed from Steam in the UK. At the time we thought that maybe Ubisoft had struck a deal with a UK high-street retailer however, the plot …

Asus officially announced its Republic of Gamers GR8 mini PC/ Steam Machine some time ago and now we finally know when its coming. The mini PC will release sometime in December here in the UK, featuring an Intel Core i7 CPU and an Nvidia GTX 750Ti graphics card. The machine …

Indie developer, Mike Maulbeck, went on a little Twitter rant last night, which resulted in him claiming that he was going to “kill Gabe Newell”. Once the tweet spread around, Valve decided to pull his game, Paranautical Activity from Steam.  After embarrassing himself on the Internet, Maulbeck has now resigned. …

There's been a lot of discussions about online death threats and harassment as of late, most of the evidence of which is swirling around the dunce cap wearing tempest in the corner called GamerGate. However it turns out that threatening to kill the founder of Valve, Game Newell isn't a …

An advertising agency has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise up to $150,000 to pester Valve employees with ‘we want Half-Life 3' advertisements and Gabe Newell lookalikes, in an effort to get the company to finish the game. This isn't the first time someone has tried to launch a Half-Life 3 …

Steam Sales tend to bring mixed emotions to the gaming community. Some, get excited by the prospect of cheap games, others clutch their wallets in fear of what they might not be able to stop themselves from doing and others still, see them as something that's undermining the industry. Whatever …

It turns out that pledges for games on Kickstarter are on the decline as new statistics are suggesting that crowd funded games are making half as much as they did in 2013. Based on data from the first half of this year, analyst firm, ICO, is expecting to see $27,023,480 …

The Stomping Land might not be a dead game after all as the title has finally received not one but two updates this month, adding in changes to the crafting system, hunting mechanics and inventory system. The developer, Alex Fundora, who goes by the name ‘Jig' on the official forums, …

Valve has announced that Steam has surpassed a couple of milestones alongside the launch of the store's huge ‘Discovery' update. Over the past nine months alone, 3700 titles have been added to Steam, 1300 of which were actually new games. Additionally, the service now has 100 million active user accounts, …

If you've booted up Steam this morning, you've probably bumped into Valve's latest update for the digital distribution platform, called the, “Steam Discovery Update,” which changes how the store operates quite drastically, in order to make the ‘discovering' and purchase of new titles that bit easier. As Valve's platform has …

According to Intel, there are currently 711 million PC gamers in the world, which works out as one in every ten people on the planet. In addition, the desktop is “alive and well” with innovation thriving in all form factors. Speaking at the Intel Developer Forum, Kirk Skaugen said: “desktop is alive …

DayZ launched on Steam's early access program last year and since then, millions of excited fans have bought the game, dismissing the fact that it is far from being finished. As a result, users are starting to complain that these early access builds are still missing many features. Now DayZ …

Capcom will be bringing Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising 2 and Dead Rising 2: Off the Record, over to Steamworks early next year. The three games currently reside on Microsoft's widely unpopular Games for Windows Live service. The publisher said that the move has come around due to fan demand: …

The latest Steam client beta update will bring better support for AMD graphics cards while using the Steam in-home streaming feature. These optimizations come shortly after Nvidia announced that it has been working with Valve to incorporate hardware encoding features for streamers using Nvidia GPUs. Those of you who own …

Last week it was revealed that the Australian Consumer Rights Commission was planning to take Valve to court over its refund policy. At the time, Valve stated that it was making “every effort to cooperate with with the Australian officials on this matter,” and now we know exactly what changes …

Valve and Nvidia have teamed up to improve the performance of Steam's in-home streaming feature by adding in support for hardware encoding on Nvidia GeForce graphics cards. This new feature works in a similar way to Nvidia's own ‘Game Stream' implementation for the Nvidia Shield handheld and tablet. Valve's own …

Planetary Annihilation, the Kickstarter success, is due to be fully released and come out of Early Access next week. The game raised $2.2 million on Kickstarter and now just under two years later, we'll get to see the final product. For those of you who aren't familiar with Planetary Annihilation, …

Valve has done a lot of great things for the PC platform over the years but consumer rights is unfortunately one of the company's short comings. Unlike Origin, Steam has a strict no refund policy, and the Australian Consumer Rights Commission is calling the company out on it by filing …

According to a survey conducted by the Independent Game Developers Association, most game developers would rather work at Valve than any other company. This may not be all that surprising as Valve is a massive company in the PC gaming space, holding the increasingly popular Steam platform, which boasts a 65 …

It turns out that digital downloads made up 92 per cent of all PC game sales worldwide in 2013, according to a new analyst report. In addition, that figure is supposed to grow over the next few years. The figures were obtained by Analyst, DFC Intelligence, which points out that these statistics …

Steam has grown up a lot over the past decade, going from a curious way to get hold of Valve games, to the dominant portal that we all experience our titles through on the PC, but it's not in its final form just yet. There's a range of updates coming …

Valve may have sneakily given us our first look at the Source 2 engine as Dota 2's workshop tools, in-game assets and code all appear to have been ported over to the company's long awaited engine update in a new set of Workshop tools. Community developers took to Reddit to …