Nintendo’s Switch console has been a massive success for the company thanks to the unusual proposition the Japanese giant made gamers. The Switch can be used in tablet mode and in full console mode to play the same amazing Nintendo games that fans love, including the popular Mario franchise. That’s why the Switch gets away …
In order to celebrate the impending release of Half-Life: Alyx in March, Valve has made every main Half-Life game in franchise history free to play on Steam from now through the day the VR title launches. You won’t actually own these games (unless you buy them), but you can add them to your library temporarily …
The last Half-Life game is now more than 12 years old. Valve released Half-Life 2: Episode Two on October 10th, 2007, with the intention of wrapping up the story in a third and final episode. That third episode never arrived, and in the decade since, fans of the first-person shooter franchise have been anticipating any …
Twelve years after Half-Life 2: Episode Two launched, most of us have given up hoping for a new, full-scale Half-Life project. Series creator Gabe Newell and the rest of the team at Valve Corporation have never definitively said that the franchise is over, but after such a long hiatus, and after countless departures of writers …
The digital content distribution wars heated up once again on Monday as Deep Silver and Epic Games teamed up to announce that Metro Exodus — the upcoming entry in the first-person shooter series — is going to be exclusive to the Epic Games store on PC. While this news on its own isn’t terribly interesting, …
Ah yes, it’s sunburn and BBQ season, which means it’s time yet again for the PC gaming overlords at Valve to open the floodgates of low prices, and boy oh boy are there plenty of publishers who have jumped on board. The Steam Summer Sale just kicked off, and even though it’s only the first …
Valve Corporation on Wednesday announced two new free apps that will soon be available on mobile devices. Steam Link, the first of the two apps, allows gamers to stream PC games from their Steam library to Android and iOS devices while connected to a 5 GHz wireless network or a wired Ethernet connection. Valve says …
This October, it will have been ten years since Half-Life 2: Episode Two was released, kicking off what would become a decade-long hiatus for one of the most beloved first-person shooter franchises of all time. It is still unclear if Valve has any plans to revive the series in the future, but on Thursday night, ex-Valve …
HTC isn’t having a ton of luck in the smartphone market these days, but its Vive virtual reality headset is actually doing really, really well. Now, the company is reportedly considering a move to spin the VR business off into a separate entity that it can sell to the highest bidder. This is seriously fantastic …
One of the most popular card games available on desktop and mobile is getting a huge expansion this week. Blizzard’s Hearthstone has tens of millions of players around the world, and the company isn’t done reinventing the game. But it looks like Hearthstone might have some serious competition in the not too distant future: Valve.
