PC gaming saviour Valve is launching an odd card collection and swapsie system it calls Steam Trading Cards, designed to encourage gamers to play older titles to earn virtual cards to collect and eventually trade for in-game items. Read More >>

The maker of the Xi3 Piston supposed "Steam Box" PC games machine has clarified its relationship with Valve, after the game publisher denied having anything to do with the mini PC hardware startup. Read More >>

You might be pushing it to get something delivered to your door ahead of Christmas and you'd have to be nuts to want to visit a brick and mortar shop, so we'll hit you up today with some bargains that you could download and be enjoying in just a few minutes. Read More >>

It seems like we've been waiting forever for Doom 4 to finally arrive. Yeah, we've been thrown a bone recently, in the form of Doom 3 BFG Edition, and we know id's cranking it out as quickly as possible. But does it turning up in the Steam database basically mean it's done and almost ready for release? Read More >>

PC publisher Valve has just launched the thing it calls Big Picture Mode, with a beta version of its TV interface for the Steam delivery network now live for everyone to have a play with. Read More >>

Looks like Valve's cooking up a treat over at HQ, with rumours that a Steam beta for Linux is literally just around the corner. The entry is very sparse at moment, but history tells us that once up on Open Steam Works, it's only a matter of time before it is released. What's next? A Linux SteamBox perhaps? [PC GamesN] Read More >>

After all the rumours and denials, Valve's just posted a very interesting job listing, which basically confirms that it's getting into the gaming PC business. In fact, the listing actually says Valve's "frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space" so it's "jumping in" itself -- you can't get much more of a confirmation that a "Steam Box" than that. Read More >>

Windows 8 is a threat to computer gaming. It's a "catastrophe," if you listen to Gabe Newell at Valve, or heads at a bunch of other major gaming companies. But the thing is, even though everyone in video games is yelling about Windows 8, they're not actually yelling about, well, gaming. Read More >>

It’s Friday 13^th and we’re bucking trends around here. Instead of people getting their feet stuck in buckets, treading on rakes and falling down cellar stairs, we’re pimping out a massive piece of good fortune instead. Read More >>

The summer is almost upon us, and so what better time could there be for us to get online and download a huge bunch of reduce-priced games on to our computers? After all, it'll probably rain for most of the next three months so we'll need something indoorsy to do. Read More >>

The "Steambox" confusion of last month has reared up again today, despite the very firm denial from Valve that it was planning any form of hardware launch. It's now advertising for someone to "conceive, design, evaluate, and produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware." Read More >>

Valve has commented on last week's rumours that it was building a "Steam Box" hardware format of its own. And it's not. Well, it sort of is, but it's not what it sounds like. Read More >>

Valve’s Steam has been at the forefront of digital distribution for a while now, ever since it kicked off as an initially pretty annoying way to prevent piracy for the developer’s Half-Life series. Now it seems Valve’s eyeing up Steam’s logical evolution – a fully-fledged gaming console for your living room -- the “Steam Box.” Read More >>

If you still haven’t picked up the epic Modern Warfare 3, it’s being pushed on Steam for free this weekend with all the multiplayer features open and available. Read More >>

The Christmas break is hurtling towards us and that means lots of spare time for you to spend with family members that you don't normally see throughout the rest of the year. Now, why on earth would you want to do something like THAT? Read More >>