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“Gordon? Gordon Freeman? Is that you?” Nope. This adventure isn’t about Gordon Freeman. Instead it focuses on Alyx, another important character from Half-Life 2. Also, this game isn’t Half-Life 3. And its a VR game. Check out the trailer below and then please come back for some thoughts on this new Half-Life game! Half-LIfe: Alyx is a VR game coming to STEAM in March 2020. It is not Half-Life 3. Instead, its a VR adventure with Alyx from Half-Life 2.…

SteamOS is an operating system built with one thing in mind: Valve wants it to be the centre of your gaming universe. Forget all the things that make gaming on PC a hassle for those not used to it. Simply turn on your Steam machine, pick the game you want to play and get into it. The one current fault of SteamOS is that it's too gaming focussed, but that's something Valve hope to change before it's out of beta.

Playing an Early Access game on Steam when suddenly the developer goes quiet? You've paid your money and been given a buggy mess in return, on the promise that some day it'll be a fully-fledged game with actual polish? Tough beans, if the game's developers bail out when development is part through, you're stuck with your purchase, Valve has said.

Black Mesa: Source, a fan project that remade the original Half-Life in high-definition, will soon be available to purchase on Steam. It’s currently available for free, but Valve was kind enough to let the developers sell the game on their digital-distribution service.  The icing on the cake was that Valve informed Black Mesa about this news on Half-Life’s 15th anniversary. Here’s project lead Carlos Montero’s forum post announcement:  HAPPY 15TH BIRTHDAY HALF-LIFE! We here at Black Mesa have some big…

Deep Silver have today launched a Linux version of Metro: Last Light, now downloadable via Steam. If you have a Linux-based machine and Steam installed, check it out. More than that though, they've also announced that Last Light will be fully Steam Machine compatible, and will actually be pre-installed on the prototype rigs being sent out to testers.

Valve have trademarked Half-Life 3, a move that will no doubt excite millions of fans of the series. This has so far only happened in Europe and there's no more information about it available, so it's probably far too early to be saying "Half-Life 3 Confirmed" but, at least of the surface of it, Half-Life 3 seems at least semi-confirmed.

Valve have announced their very own Steam operating system, based on Linux. Those of you that have used Linux will know one of its biggest flaws - one that has been really improved upon in the last few years - is its lack of gaming support, and Valve hope to change that. By having the openness of Linux and the ease-of-use of Steam, SteamOS hopes to be a fun, free alternative to current operating systems in widespread use.

Ever since Steam announced that they'd be announcing three things very shortly, there has been a lot of theorizing. Some of it has been based on actual evidence - Left 4 Dead 3 showing up in a picture from Valve HQ for instance - and some of it has been a little less... scientific - OH MY GOD, THERE ARE THREE ANNOUNCEMENTS, HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED. It seems those ideas are wrong, however, as Marc Laidlaw confirms that the three announcements are specifically about Steam.

Members of the DotA 2 subreddit were treated to a tour of Valve recently, and something tells me that the House that Half-Life Built may just regret letting them take picture. One picture, which shows a Valve Changelog, reveals quite clearly that the company are working on Left 4 Dead 3, and that it will run in the Source 2 engine.

There's been something of a mini-controversy on Steam this last weekend. Fallout 3 has been on sale and it seems to have sold so many copies that Steam actually ran out of keys so that people could actually play their game. As of writing it still seems people are getting error messages and are unable to access their new purchase. Of course, Fallout 3 is still available to buy.