Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today introduced ...

When Valve announced that Team Fortress 2 was to become a full-on free-to-play title, I think it's safe to say that we were all shocked by it. Some were shocked in a good way, while some who paid for ...

Love, loss, car chases, frequent Godzilla references – The Weekly Wrap has one of these things. Read on for the shocking answer, along with a nice helping of the week's biggest news. What happened: ...

Slapshot: Rebound - The data behind the success? There's been very little detailed data exposed by devs of Steam free-to-play games. But there are definitely good opportunities here, even for indies.

We recently disccused Valve's decision to offer free-to-play games on Steam. Such titles make money either by selling items and upgrades in game (microtransactions) or by offering a tiered service.

Turns out the guy who created the "Free2BeKicked" mod for Team Fortress 2 (that kicks players who joined after the free-to-play changeover off of private servers completely) doesn't have the courage ...