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It’s not quite as the title would lead you to believe, but Steam has started its big Holiday Sale promotion, and you might as well tell everyone you know to stop calling you for the next few months. There are more discounts than you could ever need in a lifetime, in addition rewards for completing …

Valve has joined the Black Friday week madness and started its own sale. Lasting now through to Friday, the Steam Autumn sale slashes as much as 75 percent off a different selection games every day. The deals are rotated, so today’s deals won’t be available tomorrow so get on it quick. Today highlights include Portal …

Valve has announced it will be releasing free DLC for Portal 2 on the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on October 4th. The DLC, titled ‘Peer Review’, introduces new challenges for players to solve as P-Body and Atlas, the stars of Portal 2′s co-operative campaign. Along with the usual gauntlet of puzzles GLaDOS will …

Outspoken Valve boss Gabe Newell has once again hit out at “aggressive” DRM measure which require players to remain connected to the internet in order to play. Newell last year said that the practice resulted in games that are “worth less” – to a cheering crowd at GDC. This week, in an interview with Kotaku, …

Valve has revealed that it’s already let a select few elite Counter-Strike players go hands on with its new multi-platform edition, Counter Strike: Global Offensive. As well as providing feedback to Valve, these players have posted hands-on impressions of what they saw, including a bunch of gameplay details. “Valve was quick to make clear that …

Valve has confirmed that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, a new entry in the multiplayer shooter series, is set for release early next year. The announcement follows a number of teases earlier today, when E-Sports Entertainment, a game community tool and anti-cheat tech provider posted on its Facebook page the message; “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive…More info in the …

Valve has announced a ‘Steam Trading’ feature that allows players to swap virtual items, games and other gifts. “Team Fortress 2 items and Steam Gifts can currently be traded in the Steam Trading Beta,” it says. “Any game you’ve purchased from the store as a gift, or received as an Extra Copy, can be traded …

Valve has revealed it’s to roll out a “better, stronger, faster” download system for it’s digital download service. According to the Half-Life developer, Steam data will now be sent via a firewall-friendly HTTP system “and will automatically take advantage of web-caching proxies installed at ISPs.” More importantly, the update will make the patches you download …

If you fancy bopping your head to the mechanical tones of Portal 2′s music, you can now download Volume two of the official soundtrack for free straight from Valve. The second of three volumes includes such hits as ‘I am not a moron’, ‘Bring your Daughter to Work Day’ and ‘You Are Not Part of …

Valve has sent word that the winners of its Summer Mapping Initiative competition have been decided, and made the contest winning maps available for download. Over 280 maps were entered into the contest for the 13 judges to play through. The first and second place Grand Prize winners were ‘Patent Pending’ by ebola with a …

Valve has started trickling out information on a huge update coming to Team Fortress 2 this Thursday. Valve says the so-called ‘Uber update’ will be “the biggest, most ambitious update in the history of Team Fortress 2″, so plenty to get excited about for fans of the team-based multiplayer shooter. The first class pack announcement …

Valve has confirmed that Steam now supports free-to-play games, starting with the arrival of five totally free titles, released today. The launch titles are Spiral Knights, Forsaken Worlds, Champions Online: Free for All, Global Agenda: Free Agent, and Alliance of Valliant Arms (AVA). Get on them quickly and you could be in for free DLC …

Valve has announced the ‘Portal 2 Summer Mapping Initiative’, a contest that offers players the chance to win Portal 2 goodies by creating maps. The contest will last from Tuesday, May 24 until Monday, June 6 at 11:59pm EDT and prizes include an ‘Ultimate Portal 2 Gift Pack signed by the Portal 2 developers’, the …

Valve has made a 22-song soundtrack for Portal 2 available via its website, and it’s free for all to download right now. It’s the first of three albums, or “aural stimulus packages” as the Aperture Science refers to them, and features tracks with comedy song names such as ‘I saw a deer today’, ‘concentration enhancing …

Valve maestro Gabe Newell has said the company is far more interested in developing what it can do with payment services than expanding its technology, and online “jerks” should have to pay more than community evangelists. Speaking to Develop, Newell was asked whether the company will seek to push its Source engine more aggressively now …