Dota 2, the MMORPG Valve’s been working on for a while now, has long been rumored to be F2p. Now it seems Gabe has confirmed those rumors.

"It’s going to be free-to-play — it’ll have some twists, but that’s the easiest way for people to think about it,"

http://www.valvenews.net/2012/dota-2-will-be-free-to-play-with-a-twist/

As some of you might have noticed, the site has gone pretty dark recently, no updates, downtime, etc. In an effort to revive the site and bring it back even better, I'm giving out 2 dota 2 beta keys to 2 random people who comment on this post. Posters have until 4pm EST to post something here.

Spread the word, and expect more soon!

The Steam application for iOS and Android devices, announced last week, is now available to all gamers around the world.

http://www.valvenews.net/2012/mobile-steam-app-available-to-all/

http://www.valvenews.net/2012/steam-now-available-on-iphone-and-android/

Finally, after numerous requests in the suggestions forum, Valve has finally released a mobile version of Steam. Currently available on iPhone and Android, the mobile version offers similar functionality to the PC/Mac versions of Steam.

Well this is interesting. It seems the wizards over at XDA are developing an unofficial port of Counter Strike 1.6 for Android devices. It isn’t running any kind of Source engine, unfortunately, but is being built from the ground up using the Unity3d engine.

http://www.valvenews.net/2012/counter-strike-unofficially-ported-to-android-devices/