by Erik Kain on March 4, 2012
Setting off a rumor firestorm, The Verge reported that game developer Valve might be developing a ‘Steam Box’ console, bringing its Steam gaming service into the living room. The maker of Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 has traditionally published games for PC though in recent years many of those games were ported to Mac and [...]
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by Erik Kain on February 4, 2012
Valve’s Half-Life 2 is one of the most enduring, beloved shooters of all time. So where’s Half-Life 3? My first real PC gaming crush was on Half-Life 2, still one of the best, smartest, and most engaging first-person-shooters ever made . The graphics, dialogue, voice-acting, and game mechanics are all flawless. The two episodic follow-ups [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 6, 2012
2011 was a very good year for Valve’s online video game downloading platform, Steam. For the seventh year in a row sales for the online retailer have doubled. Even as the PC gaming market has slowly receded, Steam has grown stronger, devouring the market one morsel at a time. I remember the first time I [...]
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