by Alice O'Connor, May 16, 2012 7:30am PDT
You may, this very day, start downloading a Steam game on your computer at home by loading up your web browser at work, to have it ready to go when you arrive back home. Valve introduced remote downloads in a beta build earlier this month, but the feature was officially patched into the regular Steam client yesterday.
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by Andrew Yoon, May 11, 2012 2:30pm PDT
Blizzard was none to pleased when Valve announced Dota 2, a commercial sequel to the popular Warcraft III mod, Defense of the Ancients All-Stars. Blizzard filed an opposition to Valve's "DOTA" trademark, claiming that the DOTA brand is tied to Warcraft and Blizzard. "Valve has no rights in or to the DOTA mark," Blizzard claimed. "Valve has never released, distributed, or sold any products using the mark DOTA, or, for that matter, any of the DOTA Marks. Valve did not coin the DOTA mark and has never participated in the creation of the DotA Mods."
In response, Valve claimed that Blizzard "lacks standing to bring this dispute." And apparently, Valve was right.
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Posted Oct 26, 2011 11:42am PDT - 19,597 views
See gameplay from the very first Half-Life trailer released in 1997, featuring one Dr. Gordon Freeman.
"Alternate Ending: This is how we identify people who don't pay for their own electricity. etc."
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