The folks at Penny Arcade have launcheed their own news site, The Penny Arcade Report last week. For their first feature, they’ve taken a tour of Valve Software’s offices in Redmond and interviewed CEO Gabe Newell on the company’s culture and its plans for the future. One bombshell from the interview is Valve’s plans to foray into selling it’s own hardware and console systems.

Well, if we have to sell hardware we will. We have no reason to believe we’re any good at it, it’s more we think that we need to continue to have innovation and if the only way to get these kind of projects started is by us going and developing and selling the hardware directly then that’s what we’ll do. It’s definitely not the first thought that crosses our mind; we’d rather hardware people that are good at manufacturing and distributing hardware do that. We think it’s important enough that if that’s what we end up having to do then that’s what we end up having to do. -Gabe Newell

 

Check out the interview and the tour at penny-arcade.com/report

If you’ve ever been caught on the way to work wondering what kind of Steam Sales you were missing out on, then wonder no further! This new app for iOS and Android allows you to chat with Steam friends, browse gaming news, and expose your wallet to ritualistic abuse all from your mobile device! Between this and the recent introduction of facebook connect, Valve is really making a push to expand the social aspect of its service. The question is, will privacy-paranoid PC gamers take advantage of the new features?

Source: Kotaku