In the beginning of its life, Steam was purely a Windows application. Then, as the Mac market really started to emerge, Valve took notice and ported Steam and several of their games to the Mac. Now it’s Linux’s turn, as Valve announced yesterday that Left 4 Dead 2 will be the first game to run...

Finally, after what seems like an age of waiting, Valve has graced us with their Summer Sale. As we saw in the Badges section earlier, they are going to have us voting on the “Community’s Choice” which will decide which games are going to be on sale next. Big game deals include Terraria for $2.49,...

Have you been worried that the Steam Summer Sale wasn’t actually coming? Yes, we did recently post a confirmation from a Valve employee, but their wording wasn’t perfect, and it’s possible that they could have just been referring to some small sales over the course of the summer. Well...

A couple of weeks ago Valve announced the Source Filmmaker, and the people rejoiced. With this new tool, many aspiring artists were going to be able to be the Francis Ford Coppola. There was only one problem, though: the Source Filmmaker was in closed beta. Not anymore! Last night Valve announced that the...

So you’re part of a group of developers who are creating the next big Minecraft, but you’ve hit a snag: you don’t know how to release your game! Sure, you could go with Origin, who’s promising that you’ll keep all the profits for the first three months, but let’s be...

Blacklight: Retribution, the free-to-play online shooter from Zombie Studios just released on Steam. Through this platform the game has picked up plenty of players, though some don’t consider that a good thing. Since the game’s Steam launch veteran players (and some new Steam players alike) have been...

For PC gamers, Christmas comes twice a year. Once in the winter, and once in the summer. I’m talking, of course, about Steam sales. During these periods, gamers can get a lot of games without paying much at all. Bundle packs, individual titles, classic games and very new ones. Sometimes it feels like...

Earlier this week one of the games I’ve been anticipating playing from Perfect World Entertainment released on Steam. It’s a free-to-play FPS called Blacklight: Retribution, and it’s a sequel to the previous Blacklight: Tango Down. The game was in development for a while, and it was in a closed beta...