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This is how you’ll game on a Steam Machine Valve wrapped up its trio of announcements a couple of weeks ago by unveiling its Stream Controller, a unique gamepad designed to play with upcoming Steam Machines running Steam OS, the company’s other two big reveals. The Steam Controller represents a move away from the traditional keyboard and mouse combo that have been so dominant ... Read More »

A $15,000 event is taking place in Kiev, Ukraine this weekend with four of some of the world’s best teams –  Astana Dragons,  fnatic,  VeryGames and  NiP. Only three of them remain after two days of action, as fnatic were knocked out due to defeats against Astana Dragons and NiP, while the best matches are yet to come. Here are the results so far and ... Read More »

Operation Bravo is in full swing, and passes are 50% off this weekend. Don’t miss your chance to get into the event! Today’s update introduces the WATCH menu, where you can access your competitive match history and connect to live, in-progress matches played by top CS:GO players. Watch your previous matches to relive your greatest moments, or to see your progress over time and ... Read More »

Fraps 3.5 adds the much requested feature to allow AVI movie files larger than 4 gigabytes. Fraps will now write hybrid OpenDML/AVI files and allow large movies on NTFS drives. There’s still an option to split at 4 gigabytes for legacy AVI 1.0 support. Please be aware that the minimum system requirements have changed in Fraps 3.5.0. We now require ... Read More »

Valve has announced has announced a unique gamepad that would be a good fit for your living-room gaming needs, the Steam Controller. “Steam gamers, who are used to the input associated with PCs, will appreciate that the Steam Controller’s resolution approaches that of a desktop mouse. Whole genres of games that were previously only playable with a keyboard and mouse are now accessible from ... Read More »

Valve confirms Steam boxes will also support Intel and AMD When Valve finally unwrapped the specs of the 300 beta Steam Machines last week, many assumed that Nvidia would have a lock on Valve’s Linux-based gaming machines. Today though, Valve broke cover yet again telling us that Steam Machines would support the three primary graphics vendors today. “Last week, we posted some technical specs of our ... Read More »

Operation: Payback was the first round of map DLC for Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Seven maps made by CS community members were put together into a pack, which originally sold for $5.99 (it’s on sale for $0.99 right now, by the way). Five months after its release, Valve has reportedly shelled out over $180,000 to the involved community mapmakers. Shawn Snelling, ... Read More »

Save 66 percent off this popular benchmark Valve is serving up something a little different via Steam, its digital distribution platform for games. The “Daily Deal” on Steam is for the latest version of Futuremark’s 3DMarkbenchmark, which you can snag for $8.49. That’s a 66 percent discount over its normal selling price of $24.95. The cool thing about the latest 3DMark ... Read More »