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Nintendo should have cribbed from Valve on how to make a good handheld tech demo
By Mollie Taylor published
hot desking Welcome Tour is no Aperture Desk Job.

The first Nvidia RTX 50-series GPU makes an appearance in the Steam hardware survey and it's the RTX 5080 that has the honour
By Jeremy Laird published
News AMD CPUs are up and Intel down, too.

Valve fans come together to smash the Steam concurrents record for the studio's least-popular game: 'We all know Ricochet is the best Valve game ever made'
By Tyler Wilde published
news Ricochet finally gets the respect it deserves.

Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
By Rich Stanton published
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It still makes me uneasy that my hundreds of Steam games can't be passed on when I die, at least not without violating the EULA
By Justin Wagner published
Will power (But can you really violate a EULA from beyond the grave?)

How a Microsoft exec managed to pitch Microsoft Word through the genius tactic of being able to actually use it in a 'type-off' demanded by clients: 'I was the only one who'd actually been a secretary'
By Rich Stanton published
News "And the Microsoft guy… I can see the look on his face when they ask for that."

Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
By Rich Stanton published
News "Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?"

Gabe Newell's cult of personality is intense, but a Valve exec who worked with him says his superpower is how he 'delighted in people on the team just being really good at what they did'
By Joshua Wolens published
News It's kind of a team fortress, too.
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