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Inebriation aside, I know what you mean. It was somehow satisfying to be able to help friends through this game without ever actually pushing them to do anything specific. For me, the phrase was "just look up," since that was the thing that stumped all of them, for some reason. The phrase...

As much as I would cream my jeans if they announced another Half-Life or Portal game, what I want most from Valve right now (game-wise) is some new IP. Preferably (in my opinion) something mostly linear and narrative-driven, since Valve are already sitting on top of such enormous multiplayer...

To this day, I still don't fully understand the hate that Infinite gets. I had a ton of fun with it. I'm not saying it was better or worse than anything else, just that I had a lot of fun with it. And that's all I expect from video games: fun.

Oh, also, I think this tag system is a really good idea.

Damn.

I'll just leave this here: Lifehacker: The Most (and Least) Reliable Hard Drive Brands (January 21, 2014)

It's also worth noting that each YouTube video description for the talks contains links to that specific talk's presentation slides in both PDF and PPT format. I've updated the post to reflect that.

It's the Carl Sagan profile picture that makes it funny for me.

When people ask what I want in a new Valve game, my answer is always the same, so instead of re-writing my answer for the third time, I'll just quote myself:

Wow. This is damn impressive, no matter how you look at it.

As much as I love the first Half-Life, I still can't play through the whole thing without cheating. I didn't start playing video games until about 2010, so all those older games with much steeper difficulty curves still murder me. BUT I am working on getting better. *under my breath, speaking...

Last week, the Steam Beta client was updated to formally support virtual reality as well as In-Home Streaming between different PCs over a local area network. Now, Martin Otten of the Steam team has posted a changelog for today’s changes to the Steam Beta client. Perhaps most notable is the fact...

I like how Valve made an homage to the classic fan-made "Hats vs. Hats" graph:

With Steam Dev Days wrapping up yesterday, the Twitter-centric news-drip of Valve updates has officially run dry. But that doesn't mean every bit of news has been covered. After yesterday's round-up of news from the conference's first day, here are the bits of news that stood out to us from the...

Ever since learning about Valve’s developer-only conference Steam Dev Days back in October 2013, the internet has wondered what interesting new revelations might come from the no-press-allowed event. Luckily for those of us not in the developer community, some attendees have been contributing to...

As I mentioned in this thread a while back, the feature I most want to see in Source 2 (from a player standpoint) is dynamic map loading. That is, you could be playing a level, and as you progress through the stage, the game is consistently loading the next map, effectively eliminating load...

Writing dialogue that includes Gordon without him ever talking must be difficult enough. Writing that same dialogue without him even having a name? Fugedaboudit!

Thanks for sharing this. I've updated the article with the full video, as well as the transcript to reflect the entire event. (A lot of extra transcribing has been done.)

Yesterday, Gabe Newell took to the stage at International CES to officially unveil the first generation of Steam Machines. During his very brief on-stage appearance, after revealing the partner hardware units, Gabe confirmed that controllers will be sold separately, and independent developers...

I still just want to buy Valve's first-party chassis. It could be completely devoid of parts, for all I care.