If you’re a fan of 3-D animation a company called Mixamo has announced that it’s launching a new universal expendable character creator software designed to make 3-D modeling and texturing accessible for everyone. The software is called Fuse and allows users to browse, resize, customize, and combine various body parts. The software is available now […]
Valve may be pushing its SteamOS platform for gaming-centric Steam machines, but the company won’t be trying to “artificially” drive sales by making upcoming titles like much-anticipated Half-Life 3 exclusives. “That would go against our whole philosophy, to launch something that’s exclusive to SteamOS or Steam Machines” Valve’s Anna Sweet confirmed to IGN when questioned […]
Details have been dribbling out bout the Valve’s new push into living room gaming. First we got the announcement
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If you’re a fan of survival games, developer Phosphor Games has announced early open access via Steam to its new first-person survival game called Nether. The game is being discounted during the Steam Halloween Sale. Gamers who have pre-ordered the game previously will receive additional in game perks for being among the first to support […]
Valve’s Steam service is popular, anyone who has a tiny bit of interest in gaming news is aware of that, but the company has revealed today just how popular it really is. Valve has announced that Steam now boasts more than 65 million users around the globe, and that the service has seen a 30 percent increase over the past year alone, that’s 15 million new accounts in one year. Steam has more users than Xbox Live, which according to Microsoft is used by 48 million people.
Steam is still far off from the impressive 110 million people that Sony’s PlayStation Network has to its name, but Valve’s service has continued to hold its ground and even gain substantially over the past year. This year also marks Steam’s 10 year anniversary of providing distribution and sales services to gamers. It now offers more than 3,000 games and software titles to its more than 65 million users. The company also details its plans for next year, it plans to expand Steam’s services and offerings by conducting Steam Developer Days in Seattle, Washington in January, 2014. Valve’s announcement of Steam’s impressive user stats comes shortly after the company unveiled its effort to push into the living room, an effort that includes SteamOS, Steam Controller and Steam Machines.
Valve Steam Now Has More Than 65 Million Users original content from Ubergizmo. 
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This afternoon the folks at Valve have let it be known that they’re rolling in with a cool 65 million users total for the Steam gaming network. This number can be compared to the most recent report from Sony on the PlayStation Network working with 110 million users and Microsoft reporting that they’re in at […]
You may not immediately think "gaming" when you think "Mac," but there are tons of games for the Mac these days, and some of the most popular PC games are also available for OS X. Let’s take a look at a few ways to make those games run as smoothly as possible.
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This week the folks at NVIDIA have put three of history’s biggest names in gaming development on stage together, and one of the key questions put to them right off the bat stuck in Valve’s SteamOS. John D Carmack, co-founder of id Software and CTO at Oculus VR (with the Oculus Rift), Tim Sweeney, founder […]
This week the folks at NVIDIA have suggested that their developer program with the likes of GameWorks will not be limited to the likes of Linux, Android, and the like. NVIDIA made clear that not only would they be extending GameWorks support – developer tools for games, that is – for Ubuntu environments, but for […]
Yesterday Valve released a video showing a prototype of the Steam Controller – which is designed to be used with the company’s upcoming Steam Machines – being used to play a handful of games. The demo focused on the controller’s “legacy mode”, in which the controller emulates a mouse and a keyboard, letting you map keys and cursor movement to the controller’s buttons, triggers and trackpads.
In the demo, the controller was used to play four mouse-heavy games: Portal, Civilization V, Counter-Strike: G.O. and Papers, Please. The games were chosen to show the accuracy of the trackpads, as well as how well it works with menu-heavy games that were meant to be used with a keyboard and mouse.
As was mentioned in the demo, Valve will release more demos featuring a variety of games. Even if you’ve already decided that the controller isn’t for you, remember that Steam Machines will still support mouse and keyboard combos. In any case I think that the Steam Controller is mainly for console gamers, to get them to try the PC games on Steam. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if Valve is working on or supporting the development of games that were made with the Steam Controller in mind.
[via Rock Paper Shotgun]
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