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May 2nd, 2008

Valve’s Steamworks Now Free

Valve, the award winning developer behind the Half-Life and Team Fortress games, has announced that the Steamworks Software Development Kit (SDK) is now free. The SDK offers complete publishing and development tools to independent game developers and grants them access to Steam features such as product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, matchmaking, anti-cheat […]

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March 18th, 2008

Epic signs onto Valve’s Steam platform

March 17, 2008 - Epic Games, Inc. and Valve, two of the PC industry’s leading technology and content development studios, have inked an agreement to bring Epic’s award-winning titles to Steam, a leading platform for PC games and digital content with over 15 million accounts around the world.
The Epic hits now available on Steam include […]

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February 22nd, 2008

Valve hints at Portal 2

We all know it will come soon but it is still news when Valve drops actual verbal evidence that indeed, Portal 2 is coming: “Valve’s superlative first-person puzzler scooped the top prize at this year’s Game Developer’s Choice Awards and, in a post-acceptance interview, Swift spoke briefly about a follow-up, saying, “I believe [Valve Community […]

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February 2nd, 2008

Valve splits Orange Box for Retail

PC gamers will soon be able to buy individual retail versions of the games that comprise Valve’s Orange Box, Electronic Arts confirmed in its third-quarter fiscal conference call this week. Half-Life 2 Episode 2, Portal and Team Fortress 2 are already available a la carte via Valve’s Steam download service. But now the individual titles […]

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