Widely-known for its social-gaming-network Steam, and noted for its smoothly-engineered Source Engine, Valve has been successful to say the least. It rose to fame when it debuted its first video game, Half-Life, in 1998; and since then, its success never stopped. You must have heard of Counter Strike, and you may still be playing it since its launch in 2000. Well, those two games are just a small part in Valve's history, for there's more to it.
Video games are no longer just a simple past time. Today's games are evolving into true works of art. Offering intriguing narratives, cinematic setpieces, and profound messages, games can entertain us for hundreds of hours.
Valve has finally introduced the much-needed 64-bit support in an unexpected Team Fortress 2 update after 17 years since its release.
64 bit support is not the same as a next gen upgrade. 64 bit has been used for like 12-15 years now?
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
i love those things. there cool. also very interesting. soooo how bout that half life 3?
Very interesting...and note that they've designed many games from original mods. That shows care and interest in the gamer community, and they have been richly rewarded. Lead on!
It's good to see Half Life 2 Deathmatch is listed it's a great game.
Best of all it's free for "ATI" and "Nvidia" owners.
Nvidia offer:
http://www.steampowered.com...
ATI offer:
http://www.steampowered.com...
Read more here (forums)
http://www.hl2dm-university...
I dont care and it doesnt change my present or future opinions on VALVE, they are EVIL, and only care about $$$ and DRM like control, over your gaming experience. I no longer care about Half-Life 3 or whatever tht fat pig calls the next one. It wont be a DISC release anyhow, MARK MY WORDS, it will only be Download or digital release, to help sell or force the IDEA of Digital download services, which is EXACTLY what the Industry is pushing as their Vision for gaming in the Future. STEAM and the like = DRM, thats the TRUTH.
I know the founder, Gabe Newell, was an employee and decided to quit because he found his job too boring. Gabe sold his games over the internet and continues to promote this method by developing steam.