PC

Valve Delays Counter-Strike GO To Summer

You’re going to have to wait a tad longer for the next Counter-Strike. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be a summer game, instead of a spring game, Valve’s Doug Lombardi told me today. The game is still coming to Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Mac, but Valve needed a little more time to get it to the state they want you to enjoy it in.


News

Shooting Down Rumors, Valve Says They’re Not Making A Game Console Any Time Soon

Delay those dreams of a Steam Box competing with a PlayStation, Xbox or Wii. Valve Software is not making a gaming console in the near future and that the various rumours swirling around don’t add up to them making their own set-top box.


March 5, 2012
PC

Is This Valve’s Control Pad Design?

It’s beginning to seem entirely possible that PC gaming powerhouse Valve is working on its own “console” (or at least custom PC). Especially when you consider that it’s been working on control pad designs for nearly three years.


February 7, 2012
In Real Life

Sadly, Portal-Themed Combustible Lemon Does Not Actually Combust

Portal 2‘s Cave Johnson rants about citrus fruit in this trailer for an “Electronic Combustible Lemon”, which, when ignited, plays an ominous ticking countdown followed by what I presume is the sound of lemons exploding. Sadly, the lemon itself does not explode.


January 19, 2012
PC

There Is Half-Life Stuff Hiding In Counter-Strike: GO

The people at Valve Software like to tease. They don’t, however, like to confirm the existence of new Half-Life games.


September 16, 2011
News

Valve Doesn’t Want To Make Portable Games

Nintendo is catching a lot of heat these days for refusing to make games for the iPhone, but one of the other elite video game companies, the forward-thinking makers of Portal, Counter-Strike and Team Fortress 2, Valve Software isn’t just shunning iPhone.


September 13, 2011
PC

What The New Counter-Strike Is And Isn’t, According To Valve

The next Counter-Strike, the one coming out early next year called Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, won’t be called Counter-Strike 2, because that game would be “something different”, two of Valve’s top people on the new game recently told Kotaku.


September 1, 2011
News

Exclusive Tour Of Valve Software, Where Portal, Half-Life And Team Fortress Come To Life

Valve Software’s Chet Faliszek recently gave me a tour of his company’s Belleveue headquarters, a final act of kindness during a visit in which Chet also let me play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and eat catered tacos.


August 27, 2011
PC

Counter-Strike: GO’s PAX Booth Is Using A Scope

The Counter-Strike: Global Offensive booth at the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle is a madhouse. People are waiting on long lines to play it. But if you can’t get in, you can at least watch it played on the big screen, through the largest crosshairs in town.


August 26, 2011
PC

An Hour With Counter-Strike: GO

I’ve played Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and can now say it’s for me, too.