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Steam Greenlight announced, will let gamers vote indie games on to Steam
Valve have just announced Steam Greenlight. The new service will work like the Steam Workshop, but for indie games. Creators can submit their work, whether it’s an unfinished playable build or...
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Valve on how Team Fortress 2 inspired Greenlight: “We hardly make anything...
Steam Greenlight was announced last night, detailing a project that will give PC gamers the power to dictate what ends up on Valve’s massively successful digital distribution platform. Just over 12...
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How Steam is about to change its role
On Monday night, myself and around a hundred indie developers sat in a London bar with a cinema screen, waiting to find out why Valve had asked us all there. Popular theories were a) Steam deals would...
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Valve’s Jason Holtman on Greenlight’s rating system: “People are smarter than...
Steam Greenlight is a feature that’ll change how games get submitted to the platform. As Tom mentioned in his Greenlight story a few days ago, the power to get a game on to Steam is shifting from...
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Having some form of “expert voice” in Greenlight is a good idea, say Valve
Steam Greenlight will redefine how games end up on Valve’s digital distribution platform. Greenlight will allow indie devs to foster a community and judge the popularity of their games, all from...
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PC Gamer UK Podcast: Episode 72 – Humans Are Magic
Graham, Tom Francis, Rich and Chris discuss Steam sales, the state of Kickstarter, Valve’s Greenlight project, Dota 2 and more – including your questions from Twitter. Also featuring Graham’s Steam...
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Steam to start hosting non-game software
First: movies. Now, Valve has announced that it wants to be your supplier for non-game programs. Beginning September 5th, you’ll be able to grab a variety of software ranging “from creativity to...
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Valve launches crowdsourced game submission system Steam Greenlight
Greenlight, Valve’s voting platform for indie game submissions on Steam, has just switched on, and eager developers are pouring in pitches for their games. As an initiative by Valve to merge community...
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Steam Greenlight gets submission fee, smaller rating queue
Valve’s indie game voting system Greenlight has received hundreds of submissions from developers since its launch on August 30, but users eager to vote for games they’d like to see added to Steam’s...
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Steam Greenlight’s $100 entry-fee: indie devs respond
Indie devs seem to be divided over the recently announced Steam Greenlight $100 entry-fee. The idea’s well-intentioned: it’s to stop fakes, trolls and overenthusiastic members of the community filling...
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Steam Greenlight: 15 ace games from the PC Gamer Collection
While Valve continue to work out the kinks in their promo-platform piping, we’ve pooled together our favourite picks from the Steam Greenlight community into the PC Gamer Greenlight Collection. This...
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Valve removes Seduce Me from Steam Greenlight for “offensive material”
Steam Greenlight has been billed as a way to let the community decide what makes it to the Steam store and what doesn’t, but it seems Greenlight is giving a red light to the Red Light District. If...
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PC Gamer US Podcast #328 – PAXstravaganza!
Picking up the “Host Three PCG Podcasts” achievement, T.J. once again leads a party of daring journalist-adventurers into the deep and dank dungeons of the week’s PC gaming goings-on. We talk the...
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Steam Marines: get killed by robots in squad-based sci-fi roguelike....
Death comes for us all eventually, but in the case of roguelikes, I’m pretty sure he takes the express elevator. Steam Marines is Rogue by way of Space Hulk: a randomly generated dungeon crawler set...
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Qrth-phyl released: mind-melting 3D snake game comes as $5 bundle with dev’s...
Qrth-phyl is the kind of name that causes brand managers to scream an unending scream as their eyes melt out of their sockets. Maybe that’s the idea. But as tricky to market as its Cornish name might...
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First set of 10 Greenlight games approved for Steam – includes Black Mesa, NMRiH
Today, Valve announced the first 10 games which have amassed enough votes of confidence on Greenlight to be approved for worldwide distribution on Steam. Among the chosen are Half-Life remake Black...
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Trike: an arcade shooter suffering from an unfortunate bout of worms
Worm-based indie games have been a little thin on the ground since 2007′s Death Worm, but the invertebrates are back with a vengeance in Sebastian Janisz’s Trike, an arcade shooter that puts you on...
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MaK is a sandbox Super Mario Galaxy, with extra physics
The oddly named MaK is a game that combines the tiny planetoids and playful gravity of Super Mario Galaxy with a physics engine Isaac Newton would be proud of – and he’s a notoriously hard man to...
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Greenlight Bundle launches: an unofficial collection of Steam hopefuls
Getting games onto Steam just got a whole new layer of meta with the arrival of the Greenlight Bundle, a new non-Steam-affiliated pay-what-you-want scheme for indie games. The idea appears to be that...
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Gorgeous platformer Fly’N coming to Steam today, despite that name
Fly’N is a recently greenlit platform game with an art style reminiscent of the beautiful Rayman: Origins (perhaps even surpassing it, to my mind). Contrary to the slightly confusing title, you don’t...
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