NASA adds a day to shuttle launch delay

NASA has delayed the space shuttle Discovery's scheduled launch to the international space station until late Friday at the earliest, in order to give engineers time to study a bad fuel valve sensor.

0

1

Shuttle valve passes troubleshooting test

NASA said a suspect fuel valve on the space shuttle Discovery functioned correctly during tests on Wednesday, meaning there's still a chance for liftoff this week.

1

0

Beetle's toxic blasts trigger innovation

A beetle’s chemical warfare against marauding ants, birds and frogs has provided the inspiration for a European effort to design more efficient fire extinguishers, reliable pharmaceutical sprays and fuel-injection engines.

3

0

Major online retailer Direct2Drive have announced today that the year's biggest game - Modern Warfare 2 - won't be made available on their PC digital delivery service. Why? Because of rival platform Steam, of course!

3

3

Valve, Valve's boss Gabe Newell and the PlayStation 3 have a history. A history of not getting along. And it doesn't look like that's about to change any time soon.

1

0

Valve Software's fans have long had a basic demand: make great games.

1

1

Valve has announced that the Left 4 Dead survival pack that contains two maps for versus and a new mode called survival in which you face wave after wave of zombies to see who lives the longest will be free for both the PC and 360.

1

1

Valve announced that they will be releasing the Left 4 Dead survival pack this spring for the PC and 360. It includes a new multi player mode called "Survival" plus adds two new campaigns for the VS mode.

2

1

Researchers at Durham University have created a fire drill simulator using the Source Engine by Valve. This is the same engine that powers Valve's most popular videogame title, Half Life 2. Using the 3D engine they recreated their university to allow for fire drill tests.

1

0

5 Reasons Zombies keep me awake at night. Left 4 Dead PC game review.

Every night the Infected come, a tsunami of mindless decaying flesh, driven by the need to annihilate the Survivors.

3

1

Valve seems dedicated to the cause of multiplayer gaming on the PC.

2

1

Jeez, this game looks better every time they show it. Valve says all the core stuff is done and they're just spending the next few months polishing it up before the release.

1

0

While Left 4 Dead is known as "the co-op zombie invasion game," what you might not know is that it's essentially the inverse of Team Fortress 2.

1

0

Lombardi told us, "We're not PS3 developers - we're doing PC and 360 like with Orange Box. EA came to us and said 'Wow, Orange box was an incredible project, can we do a PS3 version?'"

2

0

Valve, arguably one of the best developers of games with dirty, great big guns, has a keen interest in making a game for kids. "There's a lot of people at Valve who are parents and would love to make a game for kids," Valve's Doug Lombardi told us recently.

1

1

The next publisher to leap upon the Steam train is Ubisoft, with over forty of their games onto Valve's download platform. This includes classics like Far Cry, various Clancy titles, the Heroes of Might & Magic series, and IL-2 Sturmovik.

2

0

We can add Epic Games to the list, as the developer announced (with the help of Valve) that its catalog has come to Steam.

3

0

Valve announced earlier today that Atari is the latest in the long line of publishers to jump in bed with Steam. The games are already available for download, so check out the full list of titles after the break to see if there's anything of interest to you.

2

0

"We've mostly passed the days of being a scary thing to being a staple in people's launch plans," Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi tells Gamasutra.

5

9

Valve has confirmed to Joystiq that the individually boxed Orange Box PC games are due to hit physical shelves on April 9th.

1

1

Valve's Steam service keeps getting more ambitious.

2

1

Valve's acclaimed puzzle-action hybrid Portal will be given a sequel, according to the game's lead designer Kimberly Swift. "Well, I believe Doug Lombardi who is our lead marketing director at Valve, has announced Portal 2," said Swift in an interview with G4TV.

3

2

Skip 2/3 of this G4 interview if you feel like it, just don't skip all the way to the end. Because just before the end you'll hear Kim Swift, Portal's lead designer, say that Valve's Doug Lombardi has just announced Portal 2.

5

2

Valve has just announced that their content delivery platform Steam has accumulated 15 million subscribers only 3.5 years after its launch.

5

2

A radio-controlled contraceptive implant that could control the flow of sperm from a man's testicles is being developed by scientists in Australia.

9

6

Starting with just two new items for the Medic, Valve are going to be gradually rolling out new, unlockable weapons for every class.

3

1

NVIDIA has struck gold by entering into a new agreement with Valve to collaborate on development and distribution of its games.

0

0

Riding high from their success with The Orange Box, Valve today announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the Orange County-based development studio behind co-op zombie-fest Left 4 Dead. See What Else Is New Today At Gamevine!

2

0