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Despite a somewhat grim outlook for the legal dispute between Blizzard and Valve, it seems that both companies managed to settle the battle over the DOTA license. As you know, Valve is keen on pushing their project DOTA 2 to the end, whereas Blizzard owns the rights to the universe and characters that were used for the popular Warcraft 3 mod...

How many times have we longed for Valve to reveal at least a shred of evidence that Half-Life 3 exists (or Half-Life 2: Episode 3, if you prefer)? The thing is they never said a word. No official info or media. Nothing. Hints, rumors, possibly some tidbits that might lead us to believe they haven't given up on the project entirely, albeit nothing concrete...

You probably recall when Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was announced. Of course, a lot of people were looking forward to the game's much touted cross-platform multiplayer feature. According to a story posted by the folks at Joystiq, that particular feature of the game is no more...

Ah, DOTA - a once popular mod for Warcraft III, but now apparently the source of a potentially long-drawn-out legal dispute. Well, of course, we all knew this was bound to happen sooner or later. The folks over at Kotaku have reported that development studios Valve Software and Blizzard Entertainment commenced a legal battle over the name DOTA (Defense of the Ancients)...

Wow, this is impressive to say the least. Judging from the data on Steam’s player stats page, Vavle's digital service reached five million concurrent users. By the way, don't forget to check out the Steam January Holiday Sales. Thanks, PC Gamer.

Valve confirmed that the Steam Users' Forums downtime, which happened earlier this week, were in fact the result of a break-in. Here the word from Valve's Gabe Newell, as he explains exactly what occurred: Dear Steam Users and Steam Forum Users, Our Steam forums were defaced on the evening of Sunday, November 6...

This is something you're gonna wanna see (if you haven't already): Nice one. According to this blog post , the fabulous-looking live action movie, based on Valve's Portal game franchise, has been directed by Dan Trachtenberg, visual effects were done by Jon Chesson and matte painting was done by Maxx Burman.

So, DOTA 2 has been showcased and played during the Gamescom 2011 and... how is it? Well, opinions appear to be divided on the subject, as it happens. The official DOTA 2 web site featured live coverage of a tournament that was held yesterday...

Game community and video game solution provider E-Sports Entertainment dropped some hints about a new Counter-Strike title. The message reads: "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive...More info in the morning." The post was made about three hours ago, apparently by ESEA's Craig Levine at Valve's studio...

Yep, earlier reports were true. Valve just officially confirmed Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, which is scheduled for release via Playstation Network, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam (PC & Mac) in early 2012. The game is going to going to offer a variety of new features, new maps, characters and weapons...

Back in October 2010, Valve officially confirmed a new project called Dota 2, or rather a direct sequel to the Warcraft 3 custom scenario, Defense of The Ancients (i.e. Dota). Although little is known about the game at this point, we do know that it's supposed to make an appearance at this year's GamesCom in Koln (Germany)...

Valve announced that they've made a few alterations for their download technology for Steam, in an effort to streamline and improve the popular digital distribution service. Here's more info: As of today, you can download some of the content on Steam using all-new server and client code to get the job done...

This one's one of the best I've seen.

Valve invites you to 'Meet the Medic.' Seems like a very nice chap:

The day has come when one of the best online multiplayer shooters entered the free-to-play scene. After 4 years and over 200 updates the incredibly fun and engaging action game Team Fortress 2 is now Free To Play. Word is, the free-to-play announcement is part of Valve's...