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E3 2011: Valve playing with NECA
National Entertainment Collectibles Association announces agreement with Portal, Half-Life maker for toys, action figures, board games, accessories, and apparel from studio's stable of IP.
News - Posted Jun 8, 2011 6:17 pm GMT
Valve more profitable per employee than Google, Apple
Near-billionaire Gabe Newell discusses his privately held developer's finances with Forbes; Steam controls 50 to 70 percent of PC online market.
News - Posted Feb 15, 2011 10:17 pm GMT
Pitchford opens up on Gearbox, Borderlands a '3-million-unit game'
DICE 2010: Studio president talks success of "looter shooter," outlines the philosophy and profit-sharing that helped his company sell 25 million games worth $500 million.
News - Posted Feb 20, 2010 12:52 am GMT
Valve founder Steams up D.I.C.E.
Gabe Newell keynote address discusses the company's service-oriented approach, reveals Team Fortress 2 comic being made by the developers.
News - Posted Feb 19, 2009 4:31 am GMT
WCG partners with Circuit City
Retailer named as official entertainment, electronics, and video game retailer as competition organiser also names its 2007 games.
News - Posted Mar 6, 2007 12:46 am GMT
LGF: Game tourney closes festival
First London Games Festival draws to a close with epic gaming competition.
News - Posted Oct 9, 2006 7:41 pm GMT
Charlie Cleveland's small-game biz
The maker of Half-Life's Natural Selection turns to Zen of Sudoku to pay the bills and explains how casual-game development and Steam will make his next game better.
News - Posted Aug 17, 2006 1:58 am GMT
Samsung again sponsors WCG
Electronics company lends support to US portion of the games for the fifth time; will also sponsor worldwide round of tournaments.
News - Posted Jul 6, 2006 7:37 pm GMT
iGames announces $40k eSports event
Intel-sponsored competitions to be held June 24-25 at eight North American locations.
News - Posted May 25, 2006 4:16 pm GMT
WCG committee picks titles for '06 event
Xbox 360 sequels replace their predecessors; Halo 2 swapped out for Project Gotham Racing 3.
News - Posted Feb 15, 2006 9:33 pm GMT
60 Minutes scores Fatal1ty
Pro gamer and World Cyber Games champ will be profiled on this Sunday's show.
News - Posted Jan 20, 2006 12:14 am GMT
Tarantino to direct Half-Life movie?
One wild rumor out of Hollywood has the Kill Bill director bringing Gordon Freeman to the big screen. Is it too good to be true?
News - Posted Jan 19, 2006 11:35 pm GMT
Q&A: The MindZ behind MTV's Game0RZ Week
Executives Dave Sirulnick, Alex Porter, and Carol Eng talk about the youth network's weeklong attempt to win over gamers.
News - Posted Nov 17, 2005 9:29 pm GMT
World Cyber Games US Finals under way
Field of 184 compete in eight games to win a share of $34,000, right to represent America at worldwide Grand Final competition.
News - Posted Sep 8, 2005 11:59 pm GMT
WCG CounterStrike regionals rescheduled
CS 1.6 regionals moved to August 6 and 7; qualifiers ending this weekend.
News - Posted Jul 16, 2005 1:41 am GMT
Valve and VU end legal dispute, publishing agreement
Parties settle long-standing beef out of court, because as of August, VUG will no longer distribute any Valve titles, and cybercafe rights revert to the developer.
News - Posted Apr 29, 2005 7:53 pm GMT
Rumor Control: The Supersized Edition
This week: Counter-Strike: The Movie, From Russia with Love: The Game, EA: The Next-Gen Plan, Cell Processor: The Speed, Troika: The Closure, Sony PSP: The Download Service, Nintendo Revolution: The Napkin Sketch, PlayStation 3: Playable at E3, and Pokemon: The Cancer Gene.
News - Posted Jan 29, 2005 2:08 am GMT
Valve prevails in cyber-café rights case
Judge rules that VU Games is "not authorized" to distribute Valve games in cyber-cafés; other claims, amount of damages remain at issue.
News - Posted Nov 30, 2004 1:56 am GMT
The pomp before the stomp: The World Cyber Games kicks off
$400,000 in cash prizes will be awarded at the four-day international tournament in San Francisco.
News - Posted Oct 7, 2004 8:40 am GMT
Valve to shut down WON servers
All online portions of Valve's games to be centralized on Steam service; will force upgrade of Counter-Strike to 1.6.
News - Posted Jul 15, 2004 11:47 pm GMT