Incase the original Half-Life wasn’t gory enough, ‘Brutal Half-Life‘ is an upcoming Goldsrc mod which attempts to add even more blood, gore and gibs to Gordon’s quest through Black Mesa.

In a post on the Official Dota 2 Blog, Valve have announced that tickets for The International Dota 2 Championship will be going on sale next Friday, 27th March.

This year the tournament will last 6 days and will be hosted at KeyArena, Seattle over the summer from August 3rd to August 8th and will see 16 of the world’s top teams compete for the Aegis of Champions shield.

Valve co-founder and managing director Gabe Newell and business development lead Erik Johnson recently appeared on the first episode of a new internet podcast, GameSlice, hosted by video game journalist and presenter Geoff Keighley.

The popular Half-Life mapping and modding website RunThinkShootLive.com (formerly known as PlanetPhillip.com) recently announced a new Source mapping challenge ‘RaiseTheBarVille‘.

On March 3rd, Valve released news of their latest products at the 2015 Game Developers. The news includes the official announcement of the Source 2 engine, SteamVR, Steam Link, as well as updates to Steam Machines and the Steam Controller.

Just hours ago, HTC Corporation announced they are working together with Valve on new Virtual Reality (VR) hardware technology, with plans to release a fully-featured headset.

With Steam’s 125 million active accounts, it shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that Valve is interested in the physical realm of hardware.

Many Source mods, new and old, have been taking advantage of Steam Greenlight as of late. From Aperture Tag, to Portal Stories: Mel, to Estranged, and many others to boot! Some authors may be coming under fire for deciding to release their projects on Steam with a price tag. However most want to utilize the Steam service for its advantages in reaching a wider audience, easy installation and regular updates at no cost to the user. The newest one to add to the latter’s list is 2009 classic Joutomaa, by Sauli “Mephasto” Saarimaa.

For over a decade, PlanetPhillip.com has been a pillar of the Half-Life community, hosting the widest collection of single-player maps and mods available. Yesterday however, the site shut its proverbial doors for the last time…

The upcoming and highly anticipated Portal 2 mod “Portal Stories: Mel” recently showed off a slick looking trailer for the free-to-play game, which is set to come out early this year.

The trailer, created by the popular gaming animator animator Harry101UK, has already amassed over 50,000 views on YouTube, check it out below: