The Latest Breaking News from Valve

Steam has a razzle-dazzle new video player that's actually usable, but press F for the unlucky Valve employees who had to re-encode all 400,000+ trailers on the platform

Unnamed heroes, all.

PC Gamer · Jul 31, 2025

Valve boss Gabe Newell says passion wasn't enough to create Steam, Half-Life, and Portal: "Have people around you that you can trust"

"Engage with them to sort of think about how you can get better"

GamesRadar · Jul 30, 2025

Itch.io is 'actively reaching out to other payment processors' after pressure from credit card companies to curtail NSFW content, and that compared to Valve, it has 'limited ability to push back'

Clearing up the confusion.

PC Gamer · Jul 30, 2025

Valve boss Gabe Newell made a $9.5 billion net worth off everything from Steam to Half-Life and Portal, but he says his success all comes down to "luck" and "great people"

It's all about "having the roll of the dice" go his way

GamesRadar · Jul 28, 2025

Team Fortress 2 gets a boost on Steam charts with summer update, including a slew of community creations

Even 18 years after release, TF2 is still a top-seller on Steam.

PC Gamer · Jul 26, 2025

Handheld PC makers are slowly losing touch with Valve's successful Steam Deck template of affordability, and that's very concerning

Handheld PC gaming was saved by Valve when it launched its Steam Deck at an affordable price, but other mainstream handheld PC makers are quickly spoiling its comeback with ludicrous pricing.

TechRadar · Jul 26, 2025

Steam's redesigned store menu is in beta, and it hides that giant left-side link panel, adds an "enhanced" search bar, and puts recommendations all in one place

You can check out Valve's new Steam store menu in the platform's beta client

GamesRadar · Jul 26, 2025

Gabe Newell on the difference between billionaires and the rest of us: 'an awful lot of luck'

"...It would be great to say I'm just this absolutely f***ing wonderful person, and that I earned all of this, and that this expresses my awesomeness, but..."

PC Gamer · Jul 25, 2025

Gabe Newell says he ditched Microsoft and made Valve and Half-Life to prove "a better approach to game design" at a time where "there were more people using Doom than using Windows"

"And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft"

GamesRadar · Jul 25, 2025

Gabe Newell says he founded Valve after Doom showed him Microsoft 'was missing the opportunity' offered by the internet: 'I was willing to sort of put my money where my mouth was'

"And if I was wrong, I'd have to go back to Microsoft."

PC Gamer · Jul 25, 2025