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Portal to take center stage in Valve VR demos at GDC 2016

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Posted by John Callaham on 7 Mar 2016 4:12 pm
HTC Vive
Valve will be showing off new virtual reality demos next week in San Francisco during the 2016 Game Developers Conference. The demos will almost certainly be using the HTC Vive headset which the smartphone company has developed in partnership with Valve and its SteamVR platforms.

Valve's Robot Repair Center for HTC Vive puts you inside Portal's Aperture Labs

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Posted by Joseph Keller on 7 Mar 2016 4:30 pm
Valve's Robot Repair Center for HTC Vive puts you inside Portal's Aperture Labs
While you patiently await the arrival of your HTC Vive virtual reality headset, you can get a new look at what the gaming experience will be like. Polygon has posted a walkthrough of Aperture Labs Robot Repair Center, a VR game set in Valve's Portal universe that puts you inside Aperture Labs so you can perform, you guessed it, repairs on robots.

Check out Valve and HTC's vision for virtual reality in this video

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Posted by Simon Sage on 1 Mar 2015 11:07 am
HTC has partnered up with PC gaming powerhouse Valve to transport us to new worlds thanks to a virtual reality headset called the RE Vive. Here's a little sizzle reel to show us what they want to achieve.

HTC and Valve are doing VR with HTC Vive!

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 1 Mar 2015 10:31 am
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And completely unexpected, HTC has partnered up with Valve for the HTC Vive, a virtual-reality experience! More in our liveblog!

NVIDIA partners with Valve to bring hit game Portal to Shield

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 25 Mar 2014 3:14 pm
Portal on Shield
No word on exact release date or wider release to other Android devices There wasn't a whole lot of mobile news coming out of the opening keynote of the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference today, but one of the bigger pieces dropped on us is that the insanely-popular game Portal is coming to the NVIDIA Shield. It may not be the most recent title, but anyone who has spent a decent bit of time...

Steam beta for Android updates with hardware acceleration, stability fixes

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 8 Feb 2012 5:58 am
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Valve Software has updated its Steam beta app for Android, bringing the application up to version 1.0.3. There's a sizeable list of changes in this latest update, including stability fixes and hardware acceleration for Honeycomb and ICS devices, which should fix some of the jerkiness that's been reported. Czec and Thai language support has been added too, in addition to Bulgarian, Dutch, Greek,...

Third-party Steam applications disappearing from the Android Market

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Posted by Richard Devine on 30 Jan 2012 4:36 pm
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The official Steam for Android application hasn't been with us all that long, but an air of controversy already surrounds its arrival. Almost all of the third-party Steam applications have disappeared from the Android Market.  If Valve happens to be involved in some way, the odd part is that the Steam API is publicly available for use. Seems a tad suspicious though.  If you're using a third-...

Steam mobile app beta invites now rolling out; we go hands-on

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 28 Jan 2012 11:51 am
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As we reported on Thursday, Valve Software recently took the wraps off the Steam mobile app for Android (and iOS), as part of a limited beta. Steam users could register their interest by downloading the app and entering their details, and over the past day or so, the first beta invites have started to roll out. Steam is a big deal in the world of PC and Mac gaming, which makes the launch of an...

Steam community app available, access limited to beta participants for now

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 26 Jan 2012 3:25 pm
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If you're a PC or Mac gamer, chances are you've used Steam, Valve Software's leading digital distribution platform for games. Today sees the launch of the official Steam app for Android, a new application that gives you access to the Steam store and community features like Steam chat on-the-go. If you're big on Steam and the Steam community, this could definitely be worth a look. It's worth...