| Valve Accidentally Leaks Dates For Steam Summer Sale 2015
Gabe Newell and the team at Valve have accidentally leaked the date for the start of Steam’s summer sale, according to PC World, which reports that it will be June 11, 2015. Now this news comes with a couple of grains of salt. The information was apparently caught by IGN’s Russian contingent as the news was posted on Valve’s official social media presence on Russia’s equivalent of Facebook called VKontakte. Now that seems shady, but it was the “official” page for Valve, so there is some credibility there BUT (and this is a potential game changer) the date in question is also earlier than normal for the event. Typically, this sale comes around late June and early July and here it would be a couple of weeks early.
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| The Drill Down 298: The Spaceship Is Landing
[Photo credit: Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group]
This week, the NSA most likely has your address book & contacts, Google‘s new terms of service put you in their ads, your Playstation 4 may be made by unpaid interns, Netflix on your cable box, former Valve employees launch Augmented Reality goggles, and Apple‘s spaceship gets clearance to land in Cupertino. All this and more…
...continue reading » Tags: Android TV, Apple, castAR, Chromecast, Foxconn, Gabe Newell, Google TV, Jeri Ellsworth, Kickstarter, National Security Agency, Netflix, New York Comic Con, NSA, NYCC, Playstation, PlayStation 4, Rick Johnson, Sony, Steve Jobs, Terms of Service, Twitter, Valve | |
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| The Drill Down 294: Don’t Be Evil, Do Be Immortal
This week, the head of the NSA channels Captain Kirk, Is Linux the future of gaming?, Twitter goes public, and now that it’s conquered search, Google‘s next challenge is…mortality itself.
...continue reading » Tags: Boxnotes, calico, chipotle, Gabe Newell, Gen. Keith alexander, Google, iOS, iOS 7, IPO, linux, Moonbot Studios, National Security Agency, Netflix, NSA, Pandora, Steam, The Drill Down, Twitter, Valve Software | |
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| The Drill Down 264: The Singularity Is Near
This week, Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. newspaper networks, Twitter also gets hacked, Oreo takes advantage of the Super Bowl blackout, is Netflix‘s full season release schedule the future of television…or a big mistake, will your body be the next unlimited storage device, and if you thought J.J. Abrams hit the motherlode last week for helming both Star Trek and Star Wars franchises, you ain’t heard nothin’ yet!
...continue reading » Tags: body tech, CES, CNET, Consumer Electronics Show, Gabe Newell, Hacking, Half-Life, Half-Life 2, HL2, House of Cards, J.J. Abrams, Kevin Spacey, Netflix, New York Times, Peter Sciretta, Slashfilm, social media, Social Media Marketing, storage, Streaming, Television, The New York Times, transhumanism, Twitter, Valve, Viral Marketing, Wall Street Journal | |
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| ‘Star Wars Episode 7’ Director J.J. Abrams Developing ‘Half-Life,’ ‘Portal’ Movies
If you pay attention to entertainment news headlines even just a little bit, then you’ve noticed the name J.J. Abrams quite often lately. Whether it’s his upcoming mega-sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, the recent announcement that after Trek he’ll hop over to Star Wars Episode VII, or various other bits that may be reported, it’s a name we see often. Now Abrams is adding to this run in the spotlight and looking to fortify his status amongst the geeks of this world. At the D.I.C.E. Summit for video game designers and developers in Las Vegas recently, Abrams and Valve Software co-founder and president Gabe Newell announced that they are working on movie adaptations of two massively popular Valve games, Half-Life and Portal.
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