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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 …

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, …

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 …