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How do you go about creating a new co-op experience that will continue to entice players to return while also nurturing an environment where teamwork is mandatory? Perhaps one of the best answers to this question came in 2008 when Turtle Rock Studios and Valve released Left 4 Dead.

It was on this day in 2004 that Half-Life 2 hit shelves for the first time and made history.

When you talk about a game that ignited a fan base into a fervor of praise, adulation, and demand for a follow-up, it’s almost impossible not to talk about Half-Life 2. The second coming of Gordon Freeman was one of the grandest interactive spectacles of in all of video games.

Imagine having to follow up a legendary piece of media with something better. Can you put yourself in a place where fans ask you to take the thing you made that revolutionized a genre and make a follow-up that’s not only on par, but continues to push the envelope? That’s where Portal 2 was as it entered the gaming community’s collective radar. The game had an enormously high bar to clear with the original Portal, which was renowned for its excellent design, ingenious mechanics, and bizarre and somber, yet cynically humorous themes. Fortunately for all of Valve and Portal’s many fans, Gabe Newell’s team was well up to the task and years later, we celebrate the amazing sequel that was Portal 2.

Valve has just raised the biggest prize pool in eSports history for the 2015 Dota 2 International.

Crowbar Collective's impressive HD remake of the original Half-Life, Black Mesa, has finally arrived on Steam Early Access.

After a disastrous launch and widespread negative criticism of Skyrim's premium mod marketplace, Bethesda and Valve have decided to shut it down.

Buyer beware: Valve is letting modders sell their creations in an unregulated market and all sorts of shiesty shenanigans are going on, with the a ton of negative feedback happening.

A talented modder in the Dota 2 community named BMD has taken it upon himself to turn the popular Valve MOBA game into a third-person shooter experience he calls "Action Dota."

In case you were wondering what Dota 2's Void character would look like in-game without a body, MaxOfS2D has got you covered with his Facefull Void model.