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Valve bring Steam and the Source Engine to MAC, which is a huge boost to MAC as a gaming platform as it has struggled against Windows and even Linux when it comes to gaming. As we...

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Steam receives a complete overhaul, shedding its old green shell only to take on a slick, shiny new black one which appears to be more modern and community friendly. Read the official...

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Left 4 Dead 2 is released. The boycott doesn’t seem to have influenced sales at all as the game sells 2 million copies in merely 2 weeks and becomes as successful if not arguably...

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The 40,000+ boycott group was shut down as Valve kept their promise to continue developing content for Left 4 Dead.

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Icefrog the developer behind the Popular Warcraft III mod, Defence of the Ancients [Dota] joins Valve to work on a yet unnamed title. It leads to speculation of a Dota styled MOBA...

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Under mounting pressure from the community and uncertainties growing as to the original Left 4 Dead’s status Valve flew two of the most prominent members for the boycott group to...

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Valve release an update to the Source SDK mainly for Team Fortress 2, providing sources for maps as well as many fixes and optimizations to the overall toolkit.

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Valve respond to the criticism. “Looking back, was the Orange Box a rip-off?” He said, on initial complaints at having to “buy” Half-Life 2 again in the compilation. “Give us a fair...

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Left 4 Dead 2 is announced at E3 2009 and almost immediately is met with hostility from “fans”. A boycott is setup receiving a huge following of around 37,000 people within the first...

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