Steam launched in 2003, initially as a way for Valve to automatically ship updates to players of its existing games. "Gabe [Newell] in particular, he had a pencil sketch of an idea in his head of what ...

The contract to develop a game called Counter-Strike 2 was signed back in 2003. To celebrate this success, Gabe Newell - the founder of Valve - handmade a knife with the name of the game.

A legal dispute between Valve and Vivendi nearly tanked the former until the company was saved by an unlikely hero.

In a recent documentary on the making of Half-Life 2, Gabe Newell has basically confirmed that he is the IRL Saxton Hale, and ...

The trouble began after multinational conglomerate Vivendi acquired Sierra Entertainment. Sierra had a long-time relationship with Valve, producing and distributing Half-Life and all of its spinoff ...

Valve has released a new documentary to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2, and with it comes the news that Gabe ...

As political winds shift, Steam's community features face unprecedented scrutiny. What does this mean for the future of ...

U.S. Senator Mark Warner has written a letter to Valve demanding a more intensive fight against extremist content on Steam.

An intensive two-hour long Half-Life 2 documentary produced by Secret Tape (an offshoot of NoClip) has delivered a rather ...

As it turns out, Valve CEO Gabe Newell was already conceiving Steam at the same time that the studio was making Half-Life 2.

One of the more well-known jokes among video game fans is that Valve doesn’t know how to count to the number three. There ...

On the heels of that report, US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has penned a letter to CEO Gabe Newell at Valve saying that Steam (and Valve) could come under "more intense scrutiny from the federal ...