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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 technology, and more. This is a huge announcement for would-be developers because there are more than 15 million active users on Steam. Valve’s service has launched many successful independently made games, most recently Dylan Fitterer’s highly successful rhythm game Audiosurf.
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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 Epic’s debut classic, Unreal Gold, as well as Unreal II: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series of games, including the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over one million copies to date.

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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 Manager] Doug Lombardi has announced a sequel”. Lombardi has indeed spoken about a second Portal game, saying last January that “There’ll be more Portal, for sure. But the details of that, to be honest, we’re still working out.”
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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 will also be packaged for retail sales, EA said. Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 1 are already available as standalone retail packages.

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