Fortress-Life

There's been a trend in recent shooters to make things more immediate. Bob the camera around a little, show your…

Connected | TOKYO, JAPAN: Microsoft held a meeting for developers in Japan. (Photo: Famitsu.com)

The makers of such acclaimed single-player video games as Portal and Half-Life 2 want all of their future games to…

Over the past few weeks, Portal developer Valve and its more devoted fans have been engaged in an alternate reality…

INSTANT VENDING | JAPAN: There is even a tray filled with disposable chopsticks. (Photo by Brian Ashcraft)

You think you've been waiting a long time for a new Half-Life game? You haven't, really. It's "only" been three…

Aside from perhaps Nintendo, there are few video game studios that have ever been home to so many of the industry's…

ELECTRIC KICKS | OSAKA, JAPAN: A pair of Japanese school shoes or uwagutsu featuring Pikachu. (Photo by Brian…

As of last Friday, April 1, Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve has been dropping cryptic clues in its own…

Gabe Newell, who Forbes said is a name you should know, is best known as one of the founders of Valve. Valve, of…