Valve adds $100 Steam Greenlight fee

By: Eddie Makuch Those who wish to submit a project to Valve’s community-based Steam Greenlight initiative will now need to pay $100 to do so. Writing on the official Steam community website, a Valve representative said while there have been numerous legitimate submissions, there is also a "significant amount of noise and clutter" being submitted. Thus, the decision was made to introduce a fee to … Continue reading Valve adds $100 Steam Greenlight fee

Valve porting Steam to Linux

By: Connor Sheridan Valve wants Steam to pour forth onto Linux users, and the company is starting with Ubuntu and a work-in-progress Left 4 Dead 2 port. The developer’s efforts to mesh the digital distribution platform (and an accompanying library of Valve titles) with the open-source operating system were outlined on a post on the new Valve Linux Blog. The project, which began in 2011, … Continue reading Valve porting Steam to Linux

Second annual Dota 2 tournament headed to PAX

The place has been announced.  Valve’s second annual Dota 2 tournament, The International 2012, will be help this comic September at PAX Prime in Seattle, Washington. The grand prize of the tournament is $1 million and the championships will take place between August 31 and September 2, 2012.  The International was launched last year during Camescom in Cologne, Germany.  It was there that Ukrainian Na’Vi … Continue reading Second annual Dota 2 tournament headed to PAX