Shooting Down Rumors, Valve Says They're Not Making A Game Console Any Time Soon 
Is This A Photo Of Valve's Rumoured Console, Or At Least A Prototype? 
Do We Own Our Steam Games? 
So, How'd That Half-Life 2 Protest Go? 
Portal 2 Takes Kotaku's 2011 Game Of The Year Award For Science, You Monster 
Will We See Half Life 3 In 2012? Two Men Stake Their Dignity On The Outcome Reddit user Linksawake got a little bored. So bored in fact that he attempted to transform his pets into the dog and cat equivalent of the Valve guy. No pets were apparently harmed in this transformation.
Previously in beta, Valve has now properly launched a feature on Steam that lets users remotely download games.
When the Valve employee handbook leaked, and everyone was busy admiring the fact that Valve didn’t have a traditional management structure, myself and Kotaku designer Ben White were wondering how the hell anything ever got done over there. Then we remembered Half Life 3. But now ex-Valve employee Kim Swift has revealed a terrible, terrible secret. Valve does have a structure — even if it’s a loose one.
Portal 2′s latest DLC doesn’t just include the chance to create your own maps, it includes the chance to run around them hearing the delightful JK Simmons – aka Cave Johnson – command, dictate and berate you senselessly with almost half an hour’s worth of new content recorded just for the level creator.
Two of gaming’s best and most beloved video game studios are no longer squabbling about the word DoTA. The makers of World of Warcraft and the creators of Half-Life jointly announced in a blast to the press today that they have reached “a mutual agreement regarding concerns over names of upcoming products.”
The International Dota 2 Championships will be held during this year’s Penny Arcade Expo, Aug 31 to Sept. 2, the organiser and Dota 2 publisher Valve just announced.
The update live now for Super Monday Night Combat introduces Steam Trading (among other upgrades and fixes), which means you can pickup crossover costume items in both this title and Team Fortress 2 for the super low price of nothing.
Today’s the day when the amount of teleporting happening on computers anywhere will start increasing exponentially. Or in the words of Cave Johnson, “You should be designing test chambers, right now and at all times, or by God I will fire you.”
