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Shocker: Valve's Gabe Newell says most DRM is 'dumb'

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2008-12-03 19:45:00 by Christopher Grant in Joystiq
...Valve We don't mean make a product that's sort of like Steam, or is influenced by Steam - we mean make Steam ! Change one letter. Stream? Steem? Whatever, just make it. Bonus points if you change your company's name to Valfe or perhaps Vålve. While most PC gaming companies - except a few notable exceptions - continue to flail in the face of...
 
Tags: drm, valve, newell, onerous drm, gabe newell, steam client, steam, valve continues, drm strategies
 
 
 
 
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HL Source mod generates $3m; Valve reveals retail sales numbers

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2008-12-03 13:30:00 by Ross Miller in Joystiq
...Valve takes a piece of the pie. Maybe now he can make a suit of money Speaking of Valve, who as a general rule is very secretive with its sales figures (especially regarding Steam), the company has released its worldwide lifetime-to-date retail sales (via Gamasutra ). Pre-Steam release Half-Life is on top at 9.3 million, followed by...
 
Tags: source mod, retail sales, half-life application garry, half-life, mod, steam, include steam sales, pre-steam release half-life, valve
 
 
 
 
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Valve's Newell calls DRM strategies 'dumb'

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2008-12-02 19:41:00 by Brad Nicholson in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
Valves head honcho Gabe Newell isnt exactly the biggest fan of DRM. In a recent correspondence with a concerned customer , Newell called modern DRM protection strategies dumb and opined that the goal of the developer shouldnt be to restrict, but rather make games more available to the consumer. Without saying it, Newell expressed that Steam (go...
 
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Valve Acquires 'Left 4 Dead' Developer

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2008-01-10 17:45:38 by Stephany in Gaming Today
...Valve in the past with the creation of maps for C ounter-Strike: Source , and their latest foray with Valve on Left 4 Dead was another such cooperative junction Previously, Valve has also purchased other developers who have worked with them on projects such as Counter-Strike , Team Fortress , Day of Defeat , and Narbacular Drop ( Portals...
 
Tags: valve, dead, turtle rock, turtle rock studios, valve corporation announces, dead fills, valves, valves game properties, dead screensartwork
 
 
 
 
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In-Depth: Valve On Team Fortress 2 - Devs As Service Providers

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2008-06-06 08:00:38 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Valve's announcement of Steam Cloud and general 'PC not dead' chatter last week, and decided to write up some of the presentations - which were fascinating - in more detail. Hence this, from the patient and smart Team Fortress 2 chaps During a recent small-scale Gamasutra-attended press event held at Valve's offices in Bellevue, Washington,...
 
Tags: game design decisions, game design, multiplayer game developers, game developers, team, game, individual game teams, game designer, shooter team fortress
 
 
 
 
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Valve May Work on Wii Title

2008-02-27 19:51:57 by Rajiv Ashrafi in DigitalBattle
 
Valve is one of the developers that has been slow at adapting to consoles. However, they have managed to fill the gap with Half-Life 2 on the Xbox as well as The Orange Box on both Xbox 360 and PS3 late last year. Speaking at GDC, Valves Doug Lombardi, however, confirmed that the company does not plan on releasing Left 4 Dead on the PS3 anytime...
 
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Valve Squashes E3 Half-Life 2 Ep.3 Rumor, Confirms Left 4 Dead

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2008-06-30 02:31:29 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...Valves marketing boss Doug Lombardi has officially announced that the next episode in the Half-Life 2 franchise will not be at E3 this year. He did promise fans a playable version of Left 4 Dead would be on display at a Valve hosted suite The zombie FPS Left 4 Dead has been generating quite a bit of hype of its own. Valve is confident the...
 
Tags: valve, dead, expect valve, valve speaks, dead ps3, valve games, half-life, episode, director gabe newell
 
 
 
 
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WarCry Network : Latest News: Valve Looking at Kids' Games and MMOs

2008-05-05 19:59:34 by Editor in VirginWorlds MMO News
 
...Valve looking into children's games, the Wii and even MMOs There's a lot of people at Valve who are parents and would love to make a game for kids," Valve's Doug Lombardi told us recently We all play the Wii a lot and we think that the proper way for Valve to approach the Wii would be to make something cool designed specifically for it." he...
 
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In-Depth: How Valve Makes Art To Enhance Gameplay

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2008-07-31 08:00:47 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Valve employees Team Fortress 2 art director Moby Francke and Randy Lundeen of the Left 4 Dead team offered attendees a peak behind the scenes at Valve's unique design philosophy Team Fortress 2 Moby Francke kicked things off with an extensive discussion of Team Fortress 2 , prefacing the new with an examination of the old. Francke explained...
 
Tags: enhance, enhance gameplay, dark game, game, gameplay, game art direction, art direction, team, team calls
 
 
 
 
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Valve Says Left 4 Dead Is Studios Best-Received Game Ever, Splurges On Ads

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2008-10-29 13:00:32 by Patrick Klepek in MTV Multiplayer
...Valve s zombie