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Steam Greenlight announced, will let gamers vote indie games on to Steam
Valve have just announced Steam Greenlight. The new service will work like the Steam Workshop, but for indie games. Creators can submit their work, whether it’s an unfinished playable build or...
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How Steam is about to change its role
On Monday night, myself and around a hundred indie developers sat in a London bar with a cinema screen, waiting to find out why Valve had asked us all there. Popular theories were a) Steam deals would...
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Dota 2 data yields ideal team composition
What’s the ideal Dota team composition? You might be thinking that the answer is something like a carry, a semi-carry/initiator, a pusher, a support and a disabler, or something along those lines....
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Team Fortress 2 poised for Linux support, beta update suggests
A Slashdot user has spotted that the beta version of Team Fortress 2 has received a sneaky update, introducing changes which emit the heady and appealing whiff of Linux support. “Among the modified...
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Dota 2 diary: jungling is massive
Doesn’t it look tranquil? I don’t like playing with others in Dota 2. I find team fights deeply stressful. I get way too nervous while ganking, and unless I have a huge level advantage, I don’t like...
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Dota 2 Diretide impressions – does Valve’s new game mode trick or treat?
Undying is slaughtering zombies, Phantom Lancer is tearing through ghosts, and Roshan is ramping around the map carrying a big bucket of sweets. What the hell has happened to Dota 2? Diretide is what....
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The best Portal 2 singleplayer maps and campaigns
Thanks to the Perpetual Testing Initiative DLC’s intuitive and enthralling editor, Portal 2 has a near-endless supply of new puzzles for players to enjoy. Since its release, over 200,000 new community...
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The 10 best Portal 2 co-op maps
We recently gave you our selection of the best Portal 2 single player maps and campaigns available on the Steam Workshop. There’s some great feats of level design in that list, but if you really want...
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Portal 2 patch adds splitscreen, Big Picture support
Caring, sharing types rejoice: Valve have released a patch which enables two-controller splitscreen play for Portal 2, making it all the easier to give your co-op buddy a purple nurple when they...
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Valve confirms Steam Box – a “very controlled” PC for the living room
Gabe Newell appears to have confirmed rumours that Valve are working on a “Steam Box” – a hardware package designed to bring the PC right to the living room. Talking to Kotaku on the red carpet at the...
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Team Fortress 2 guide – conquering Mann vs Machine’s expert mode
Mann vs Machine is Team Fortress 2’s robot-slaying, wave-based, co-op game-mode. Though both TF2 and the MvM mode are free, those looking for a little extra challenge can buy tickets to access its...
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Tales from the Steam Workshop: we talk to modelers making six figure sums
Valve’s Steam Workshop is life-changing. The community curated creative space has finally realised the dream of modders everywhere, rewarding them for the work they put into making games better. Team...
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Valve’s Robin Walker on six figure item sales and the future of modding
Following my look at the Steam Workshop’s biggest sellers earlier this week, I got a chance to put some questions to Valve’s Robin Walker. He was one of the original developers of Team Fortress, back...
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25 Greenlight games you should vote for right now
Puntastic puzzlers, pretty underworld platformers, robots party planners and games of expansionist imperial politicking: there are a lot of excellent upcoming games going unnoticed on Greenlight....
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