Valve now revealed some new features for its Steamworks. Steamworks is Valve´s set of publishing and development tools, which are by the way free of charge for developers and publishers worldwide. more...

Valve today announced that the first in-game DLC is available on Steam. The content in question is Twisted Pixel Games' title The Maw.

This new support of in-game DLC means that developers and publishers can now sell their content from within their games, instead of doing so on the Steam storefront.

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While we usually click away the "Steam Update news", we've just stumbled over the following information, which discloses what hardware Valve is using in their offices (meaning: on and for what they are developing games), and to what configuration they are currently migrating.

Current configuration:

1. EVGA 780i SLI FTW Intel Motherboard more...

Valve's business development director Jason Holtman was giving a speech at the Game Business Summit recently, making some interesting remarks on the well-known problem of game piracy. more...

Last month the Left 4 Dead servers for the Xbox 360 received a much needed patch that brought ruthless cheating on Xbox Live to a halt. Players were able to spawn sheer endless amounts of weapons, items, enemies, and more on- and offline. more...

Just to remind you: Despite the many promises Valve hasn't delivered any additional content for the Xbox 360 version of Team Fortress 2 yet. Valve wants to make it better with their newest release, Left 4 Dead. Planned is earlier DLC for their newest zombie-tastic hit Left 4 Dead paired with a simultaneous PC and Xbox 360 release. more...

Good news, at least for Americans. All top-games of the current Electronic Arts product line-up can now be purchased and downloaded via Valve´s service Steam. This includes games like Spore, Mass Effect or Need for Speed: Undercover. more...

Aquaria, Bit Blot's innovative action adventure under water (with explorative gameplay like in the Metroid Prime series), which won the Grand Price of the Independent Games Festival in 2007, has now been patched to Version 1.1.1, bringing with it new features like, for example, widescreen support that we [link=http://www.gamersglobal.com/ne more...

Update: Rest assured, the madness has been fixed without a patch. How? Read below.

Left 4 Dead on the PC had its share of bugs, exploits, and hacks. Most of it has been patched by now, such as the Witch "Hug" bug. However, some resourceful hackers have just discovered that there's also an Xbox 360 version of Valve's popular zombie-coop shooter! And apparently, they indeed managed to run the Valve's SDK for the PC version of L4D on Microsoft's console. With the new NXE that provides the possibility to copy games to the 360's hard-drive, sv_cheats 1 had its first healthy welcome on the console version of Left 4 Dead. more...

Although two of our staff members, Leonard McCoy and Jörg, were involved creating it, we've put this editorial video about solo and multiplayer gameplay in Left 4 Dead on gamersglobal.com only to test video embedding. But thanks to our contributor gross.tim, we now have a fully subtitled version.
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