Last week, Valve started allowing free-to-play games operate on its digital distribution platform Steam. The microtransaction business model in games is one that works. It’s especially popular in MMORPGs. Through this method, we’ve seen seemingly doomed games such as APB get reborn with a new audience. Now Valve may be trying its hand in the free-to-play space.

Valve has had a bumpy history with the PS3. The company has gone on record several times saying how complicated the PS3′s architecture is and how it has no interest developing for the console. These harsh words were put to rest this year at E3 when Valve announced Portal 2 is coming to the PS3. Valve even went so far to say the PS3 version will be superior to all other platforms. It’s good to see Valve spreading it’s games across more consoles besides the PC and Xbox 360, but what about its past games?

When Valve released the Team Fortress 2 (TF2) Gold Rush update (which included unlockable weapons and achievements for the Medic class in addition to the Payload gameplay style) in April 2008, the company also confirmed that the game’s remaining eight classes will be overhauled in the future.

Since then, the Pyro and Heavy classes have been updated with new weapons and achievements but the remaining six classes (Scout, Engineer, Demoman, Sniper, Soldier and Spy) remain untouched. Valve’s vice president of marketing Doug Lombardi recently spoke with ShackNews about when fans can expect…

Valve is renowned for its long development times — something its supporters have generally come to accept as a fair concession for consistently high quality titles — but that didn’t stop the company’s vice president of marketing, Doug Lombardi, from dropping some hints about when we might finally see the conclusion to Gordon Freeman’s epic tale.

Speaking in an interview with Kikizo, Lombardi revealed that the “next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between…

Reports last month of additional content to paradigm-busting, platitude-eliciting puzzler Portal were heart-stopping revelations for die-hards Valve fans.

But, according to GameSetWatch, Valve’s Doug Lombardi said the new levels for Portal will be culled from the Portal: The Flash Game map pack. While there’s still plenty of reasons for console players to be happy, there are now a few to get riled up about, too…