Portal 2 E3 Demo (Bounce)

A new Valve job advertisement has added weight to the recent rumour that the Half-Life maker is working on a Steam Box product. Valve is after an electronics engineer to help it develop hardware to "enhance" the gameplay experiences it's known for. "Join our h…

Portal 2 won Best Game at last night's British Academy Video Game Awards. Valve's comedy puzzle adventure was also the biggest winner of the night, taking home three gongs, the others being for Design and Story. Portal 2's chief rival and last year's role-play…

Valve has poured cold water on the rumour that it is making a Steam Box console. Last week The Verge reported that Valve was working on a console to be developed in partnership with manufacturers. The Verge report said the Steam Box would "likely" launch with …

Valve boss Gabe Newell is worth an eye-watering $1.5 billion. He is the 854th richest billionaire, out of a global total of 1226 billionaires, according to Forbes . Newell owns over 50 per cent of Valve, the company he co-founded in 1996 after leaving Microsof…

Warning! Portal 2 spoilers below. Valve's Chet Faliszek and Eric Wolpaw have revealed many paths that Portal 2 didn't take at a very entertaining post-mortem at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Wheatley - the chatty, idiotic AI personality voic…

BAFTA has announced its shortlist for the 2012 British Academy Video Games Awards and Batman: Arkham City and L.A. Noire lead the pack with eight nominations each. Other blockbusters in line for prizes include Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and LittleBigPlanet…

The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim was crowned Game of the Year at this year's video gaming Oscars, the AIAS Interactive Achievement Awards. Skyrim won five awards in all, including those for story, RPG/MMO, game direction and gameplay engineering. Beaten RPG/MMO com…

Brilliant developer Valve has made a Portal 2 Space Core mod for brilliant game Skyrim. Dubbed Fall of the Space Core, Vol. 1 (more to come?), this literally drops the little round Space Core robot into your Skyrim world. Better still, the robot appears to be …

The AIAS shortlist for the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards - i.e. the game Oscars - has been revealed. Game of the Year 2011 contenders are Batman: Arkham City, Portal 2 ( Eurogamer's Game of the Year 2011 ), The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, The Legend …

The most pirated PC game of 2011 wasn't Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3 or Skyrim - it was Crysis 2. Specialist site TorrentFreak estimated, using several sources of data, that Crysis 2 was downloaded illegally nearly 4 million times (3.92 million). Modern War…

We've had our say . You've had your say . But what about the people who made the games? What were their favourites of the year just ended? Yes, it's that time of year again, when we pester our favourite creators for their reflections and then watch them show u…

Was 2011 a great year for gaming or wasn't it? Regardless of where you stand on that particular debate, it's been responsible for some of the medium's finest efforts. Going through our Games of 2011 has provided some heartening reading, and the likes of Bastio…

You can tell everything about Portal 2 from the lack of cake. There's one gag in the whole game, and it's a fakeout - a door marked 'cake dispensary' that, if approached, falls flat on the ground. Portal was too perfect and its punishment was death by meme, th…

Valve co-founder and CEO Gabe Newell believes piracy stems not from price, but from convenience. And as Steam boasts fast access to a dizzying selection of games, so piracy has become "basically a non-issue" for Valve. "In general, we think there is a fundamen…

A second batch of Portal 2 DLC arrives early next year, developer Valve has announced. It'll include an in-game map editor that lets users design, build and share their own single-player and co-op test chambers. The community will then be able to view, play an…

The Portal 2 Peer Review DLC has been released on Xbox Live Arcade. It's free. It measures 1.37GB . Peer Review follows the two loveable robots Body and Atlas as they try to out-fox GLaDOS through a new co-op test track. Silly old circuit-boards. Eurogamer's P…

The first set of free Portal 2 DLC, titled Peer Review, launches on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on 4th October, developer Valve has announced. The pack continues the story of Aperture bots P-Body and Atlas as they make their way through a new co-op test tra…

Steam has officially launched its new Trading feature today following last month's open beta . Thanks to an auto update which has just gone live, you can now trade Steam Gifts and in-game items from Team Fortress 2, Portal 2 and Sega adventure Spiral Knights w…

Portal 2 was more successful on the PC than it was on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, Valve boss Gabe Newell has revealed. Speaking in an interview with Gamasutra , he explained that the studio never sets out to make games to specifically appeal to PC or console g…