Think about your fondest gaming memory. There's a chance the game that provided it was an object of desire for months prior, a hotly anticipated title whose every PR beat you pored over in the games ...

Valve has always provided Steam keys to developers for free, allowing them to sell Steam games at retail or through third-party marketplaces and bundles. The company isn’t ending that practice, but ...

Developers commonly populate pre-release tests of their games by giving away Steam beta keys. Valve calls these keys "release override keys," because they grant access to a game before it has released ...