- COMIC: XCOM The Healing Process
- Evenin '13
- SimCity's Amusement Park Pack Leaked, Releases May 28th
- Metal Gear Rising Revengeance Re-Confirmed For PC Release
- Game Gear Games Coming to 3DS eShop
- Nintendo Open E3 Gaming Doors to Public at Best Buy
- The Wonderful 101 Gets a Release Date
- GTA 5 Screens - Cars, Motorbikes and Scuba Diving
- Black Ops 2 Uprising DLC Ships
- Driveclub PS4 Screenshots
- The Elder Scrolls Online Gathering & Exploration Video
- Mornin '13
- The Elder Scrolls Online
Gathering And Exploration Dev. Diary - Gran Turismo 6
Debut Trailer - Batman: Arkham Origins
Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. Taking place before the rise of Gotham City\'s most dangerous - Metro: Last Light
Launch Trailer - Resident Evil: Revelations
Panic Dev. Diary - Command & Conquer
Beyond the Battle Dev Diary - Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
True Golden Age of Pirates trailer
- Far Cry 3
Patch 1.05 - Assassin's Creed 3
Patch v1.02 to v1.03 - Far Cry 3
Patch 1.04 - Far Cry 3
Patch 1.02 - Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Patch 1.4 to 1.5 - Max Payne 3
Patch v1.0.0.56 - Max Payne 3
Patch v1.0.0.55
NY Times reports that "Valve has been pursued over the years by Electronic Arts, which would very likely have valued Valve at well over $1 billion had the talks progressed that far," with the publication claiming that info came from "two people with knowledge of the discussion who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks were private.".
Valve prez Gabe Newell, on the other hand, says the company would "disintegrate" if they were bought by another corporation. "It's way more likely we would head in that direction than say, 'Let's find some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate,' " he added.
So, I guess he said 'no' then. Valve's value was estimated at around $2.5 billion, according to Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter.
Meanwhile, the industry top dog -- Electronic Arts -- invested over $1 billion on purchases in the social and mobile market. EA also acquired PlayFish, Firemint and PopCap.
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Now go make some games damnit.
They've manage to take advantage of the same gameplay in Counter Strike for over a decade now. It probably still amounts as the most played multiplayer shooter.
I STILL don't want to explain myself, how in the hell The L4D series had so much success. Same as for Team Fortress..
I wasn't satisfied of the final product Half life 2 ended up to be nor for the idea of making those short episodes at such a long distance of time between them.
Furthermore, games like Counter Strike and Portal were not even Valve's ideas to begin with.
if you put Valve under a magnifying glass, its real value amounts for shit. CS was a HL mod, Team Fortress was a mod for Quake, Portal was Narbacular Drop before it became a superstar, L4D....i abstain from any comments because the whole zombie thing got old 10 years ago.
so, most of the aforementioned titles were created by other people and then bought by Valve and the rest of their products are sequels.
sequels for games created by others.
i can honestly just call Valve a publishing company rather than a developer. Steam racks up money like World of Whorecraft, everything else is just a week-end hobby project.
ohh yeah, Valve is making DOTA2....which was a mod for Warcraft 3.
i just downloaded Knight and Merchants from GoG.com....excuse me while i go appreciate some original talent.
They definitely are pretty overrated as a game developer, but they are making fucking bank on Steam and that's probably why they can develop a game for years and years. I hate it.
Without Steam, wouldn't they have released more games by now?
I personally agree 100%, and never understood everyone's worship of the company. I really enjoyed Half-Life (until Xen), but beyond that they've failed to impress me and Half-Life 2 still stands as one of my most disappointing games of all time. It's an excellent tech demo, but not a great game.