Last year in February, Steam launched its screenshot function, there have been over 80 million screenshots taken since. Last May they launched their video capture service and nearly 1 Million videos have been linked to youtube and Steam as a result, and in September they had launched their user generated DLC service, Steam Workshop, which has generated over 2 hundred thousand items. Well now, Steam is getting an … [ Read More... ]
Coming September 5th, Valve’s Steam service will begin distibuting general software, in addition to its game service. Since Steam is already the largest distibuter of computer games, just imagine that power for the general programmer.
Basically, this now means that everyone who develops any kind of software, should look at getting into Steam now.
Maybe next they’ll tackle movies and music? Although I would doubt that..… [ Read More... ]
At Quakecon 2012 we were fortunate enough to get an exclusive interview with Michael Abrash of Valve Software. In the interview was also a writer from Rock Paper Shotgun.
For those that don’t know… Michael Abrash is an esteemed computer programmer with a career spanning over 3 decades. He arrived in Dallas, Tx at this years Quakecon to speak with fellow geniuses John Carmack of Id Software… [ Read More... ]
Greetings id maniacs,
We just got back from Dallas, and while we were at Quake Con managed to get a few answers out of John Carmack personally…
When asked about his intentions on continuing his work with non-polygonal rendering: He commented that it was going to have to take a back seat, as right now the technology is not really there and it wouldn’t be worth the trouble … [ Read More... ]