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Since its debut, items on the Steam Workshop for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have garnered a total of over 170 million downloads to date. In order to facilitate and encourage community content creators even further, today Valve announced that Steam Workshop creators will now be able to sell...

Yesterday, in a new update to the Steamworks SDK, Valve released a new beta feature for Steamworks developers that allows Steam Marketplace-compatible item drops and crafting. The new set of Steamworks APIs and tools, collectively called the Steam Inventory Service, enables third-party...

Last night I remembered my dream for the first time in quite a long time -- years, even. It was a ridiculously fun dream. In it, Valve had released a new virtual reality Half-Life game, and I was playing it. It wasn't HL3, but it was still a substantial standalone game. This game took place...

Back in June 2012, Valve first announced “Teaching With Portals,” which was part of a U.S. Department of Education initiative to push electronic teaching methods into schools. Among the DoED’s partners for this endeavor was Valve (then called Valve Software), who offered up Portal 2 and its...

Today, a new announcement released to the Steam Universe group has revealed the progress the Steam Machine team are making regarding the Steam Machines and Steam Controllers. They are now using wireless prototype controllers for playtesting with a very large range of users, from casuals to...

Earlier today, Valve announced that the community may now submit merchandise designs to the Steam Workshop that, if chosen by Valve and merchandise partner WeLoveFine, could be sold as official designs at The International 4 event in July. By going to the "The International" tab on the Dota 2...

Earlier today, the Dota 2 team announced via their Steam Community group that regional leaderboards for matchmaking rankings will now be made public. The leaderboards will show the top-ranked players sorted by their MMRs, and will be divided into four geographic regions: Americas Europe &...

Update (March 7, 2014): Even though the AMA never officially ended -- Gabe said he was going away for a bit, and that he would return after more questions had been upvoted -- it's been three full days since the AMA was left hanging, so we're assuming that it's over at this point. As such, click...

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...

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...

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...

Following the onset of the Steam Hardware beta, Valve have begun shipping the Steamworks API that will allow game developers to incorporate specific support for the Steam Controller in their games. In other words, you might soon see official Steam Controller support added to your favorite Steam...

Valve recently announced two forthcoming maps for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive in a new blog post over on the game’s website. The first is an updated remake of the classic "Cobble" (de_cbble) map, while the second is an all-new map entitled "Overpass". In the announcement blog post, the team...

Today at around 2:00pm PST (10:00pm GMT), Valve will be notifying the 300 selected beta testers for Steam Machines, Steam Controllers, and SteamOS. The beta participants are very unfortunately limited to the United States because of international regulatory hurdles. Though Valve have made it...

The annual Steam Autumn Sale has officially begun! It is set to run from November 27th until December 3rd, and features daily deals and time-sensitive flash sales. Daily deals function as large price reductions on 9 select game titles for 24 hours at a time, changing every day at 6:00pm GMT...

Today, Steam introduced a new Steam Reviews beta. The new feature will allow Steam users to write, read, and rate customer reviews about all games on the Steam Store. The review system will replace the now-retired “Recommendation” system on Steam, with the previously-written recommendations now...

Beginning today and running through November 11th, the fifth annual Scream Fortress Halloween Special is now live. The update brings with it the Payload Race variation map "Helltower", Spell Books, 100+ new community-made items, eight new Helltower-themed achievements, and The Witching Hour...

Earlier today, SteamDB uncovered an upcoming new Steam feature called "In-Home Streaming" in the most recent Steam Beta client update. The feature is not yet public, but the feature can be found and accessed in the update files. In the screenshot above, the new feature is shown in Big...

In addition to a 50%-off sale on Operation Bravo passes for this weekend, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive just received a new update, the primary new feature of which is a new “WATCH” menu that provides immediate spectator access to live CS:GO games via GOTV. The new WATCH menu allows...