Just this past week the folks at Bethesda released a Skyrim Creation Kit, one made to make developing strange modifications for the game as easy as pie. This week the team at Valve made full use of the kit to bring everyone's favorite Portal character to the medieval world of Skyrim - a robot, of course. This Space Core modification for Skyrim lands a lovely little personality core in your world and has you able to pick him up and kick him around like a football if you like.
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Valve brings Steam to Android in closed beta
Steam is pretty much the universally accepted standard in delivering digitally downloaded games to the PC crowd, and now it is seeking some of that mojo on Android. Valve is testing an official version of Steam on the Google platform, currently accessible only to users invited to the closed beta but hopefully due to make its way to the general public soon.
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Steam Hacked, Credit Card Information Theft Possible says Valve
This week Valve Corporation head Gabe Newell has announced that the gaming hub Steam has suffered an attack on their forums which may well have put credit card numbers and other users personal information at risk. The attack apparently went down this Sunday and Valve is currently letting everyone who had any personal info listed at Steam to watch their credit card activity in the near future for possible fraudulent activity. Here after the attack the Steam Forums are closed and will remain closed for the time being while Steam itself will remain operating as normal.
Counter Strike Expansion “Global Offensive” Launching inside 2012
One of the most popular 3rd party modifications of a game in history, Counter-Strike has now been a legitimate stand-alone game series now for almost 10 years. What began as first-person shooter PC game Half-Life was transformed in 1999 to a game of terrorists and counter-terrorists, one side's objective to set and protect a bomb, the other's side to disarm the bomb. This game is set to have a new sequel in 2012 in the form of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, aka CS-GO.
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Portal 2: Potato Sack – Help Release It Early
Portal is the best game. Released alongside Half-Life 2, it surprised the world with it's combination of black humor and innovative gameplay. With Portal 2 about to be released, the folks over at Valve are teasing us with a lot of craziness. What kind of craziness you ask? Read more to find out. GLaDOS needs your help!
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Steam faces retail opposition as rival digital distributors eye the market
Steam has made game distribution pleasantly straightforward for PC gamers, but the service is apparently prompting wrath among retailers fearful of its potential for market dominance. According to MCV's sources, UK high-street retailers are telling games publishers to strip Steam from their titles or face a ban from their shelves. "Publishers are creating a monster – we are telling suppliers to stop using Steam in their games" said one unnamed exec at a big-name UK gaming retailer.
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Valve confirm no current Linux Steam plans
Valve has ended speculation over a Linux port of their Steam games system, with marketing VP Doug Lombardi telling GamesIndustry that the company is not working on a version for the open-source platform. Rumors of the Linux build began in earnest back in May 2010, when several unreleased Steam Linux binaries were discovered; these appeared to be undergoing active development by Valve themselves.
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Steam for Linux next on cards after OS X?
Linux and gaming haven't always been the most familiar of bedfellows, but that could all change should Valve bring their Steam client to the OS. Hot on the heels of a confirmed OS X Steam launch date comes news that Phonorix have discovered several unreleased Steam Linux binaries that are apparently being actively developed.
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Valve confirms Steam platform coming to Macs in April
The Mac platform isn't exactly known for a plethora of readily-available computer games, but game development and digital distribution company Valve has announced today that it will be bringing its wildly-popular Steam gaming system, as well as its vaunted Source proprietary game engine to Apple's very own line of computers.
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Valve confirm they’ve left PS3 for dead
Threatening or generally thumbing your nose at Sony seems to be an increasingly common pastime for developers, as the latest to climb on board is perennial PS3 cynic Gabe Newell of Valve. Interviewed for GameTrailers TV, Newell was asked by host Geoff Keighley whether the studio was currently working on PS3 title development, only to shoot the possibility down in no uncertain terms.
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