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Facebook Acquires Oculus VR For $2 Billion

Facebook’s latest billion-dollar-plus acquisition is virtual reality gaming headset maker Oculus VR (and its vibrant developer community).

Valve’s Steam Machines: A New Challenger In The Gaming Console Wars

Valve has revealed the hardware it wants to use to disrupt the games console industry. But will smartphone gaming beat it to the punch?

With Steam OS, Valve Wants To Dominate Living Room Gaming

Gaming giant Valve is continuing its quest for living room domination with SteamOS, a Linux-Steam mashup which ports games and streaming content directly to televisions.

Chasing Xbox Spying Allegations, Australian Police Raid Potential Hacker’s Home

Microsoft, Sony, Epic Games, Blizzard, and Valve are the big computing and gaming names allegedly involved in the hacker hunt down under.

How Portal 2 Developers Became The Best 6th Grade Physics Teachers Ever

The game developers at Valve stumbled into the learning business, and then won the hearts of teachers (and students) everywhere by creating the Portal 2 Puzzle Maker.

A TV Browsing Experiment That Lifts From First-Person Shooters

Browsing the web on the television has never quite worked. But now, Valve, makers of the biggest PC gaming platform, Steam, have released an attempt with gaming at its core.

“Teach With Portals” Opens In Beta This Summer

You’re Hired. Now Figure Things Out (With The Help Of This Whimsical Handbook)

This week, Valve’s hipper-than-thou employee handbook was unleashed on the Internet, to much envy and amusement. Companies like Valve, Zappos, and Facebook spill on how they maintain continuity and culture using clever onboarding practices and simple reassurance.

Portal 2’s Creators On Crafting Games Through Experiential Stories

The 10 Most Innovative Companies in Gaming

The 10 Most Innovative Web Companies

From Twitter to Zynga, these companies are revolutionizing how we interact on the Internet.

i Heart U: Apple Patents Biometric iPhone Unlock

Steam Comes to Mac OS, Single-Handedly Turns Mac Into a Legitimate Gaming Contender