Dota 2's upcoming The International 5 eSports competition today broke the record for the largest prize pool in eSports history - a record which was set by the same game at last year's International, which managed to total just shy of $11 million. The...

Valve has announced the release date for its long-awaited Stream controller. The controller will be released on October 16 in limited quantities for those who pre-order it, while it will officially launch on November 10, alongside Steam Machines and the...

Valve has unveiled a new refund policy for Steam. It was previously possible to get a refund via Steam, but it was an extreme hassle that often took months of pestering Steam’s customer support. Here is a quick breakdown of this new policy (for a more...

The remake for the original Half-Life, Black Mesa, is now available on Steam Early Access. The Valve-approved remake has been developed by Crowbar Collective. "Making a game with the scope and scale of Black Mesa is a massive undertaking," reads the...

It looks like Valve's Portal series will make an appearance in the upcoming toy-to-life game Lego Dimensions. Eurogamer is reporting that Walmart listed a Portal-themed level pack for Lego Dimensions, before promptly removing the listing (not, naturally,...

In a recent Tweet, Zen Studios, the company behind a number of acclaimed pinball games, including the Pinball FX and Zen Pinball series, has teased some kind of collaboration with Valve. Expect the company to announce pinball tables revolving around...

The fallout from Valve's decision to allow content creators on Steam to charge for their mods continues. Gabe Newell yesterday hosted an AMA on Reddit regarding the decision to allow for paid mods and the backlash that has followed on from it. In it...

Valve has announced that it has updated the Steam service to allow community-made Workshop content to be sold via the Steam Workshop. Mod creators will be able to either sell their creations at a price of their choosing or keep them free. "We think this...

Valve has introduced a new policy in an attempt to combat trade scamming. It's the latest in a long line of changes introduced to the digital platform that are designed to make it harder to phish on Steam, and should result in far fewer cases of spam...

Valve's digital distribution service, Steam, hit a new milestone over the weekend. The Steam & Game Stats page shows that on Sunday the service hit 9,168,454 concurrent users. The previous record of 9,068,104 was set on March 15. Two games dominated...