Steam has been hacked and it has been disclosed that credit card numbers and other personal information may have been put at risk. Valve know that the hackers gained access to the encrypted database with this information, but are currently unable to ascertain if this database was lifted or if they will be able to break the encryption. This comes just days after the Steam forums were taken offline, the cause of which is believed to be an exploit in the old version of vBulletin that was being run. ...

Less than a week ago we reported on the possibility of the recently announced Counter-Strike: Global Offensive enabling cross-platform play between consoles and PC. Kotaku has now published a hands-on article stating that it's a feature of the game and hadn't suggested there was any doubt of its implementation. Unfortunately for Xbox 360 players, they'll be excluded due to its lack of Steam integration and inability to use anything except the Xbox 360 controller. PS3, Mac and PC players will be mat...

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive was revealed just over a week ago, as was a slew of opinions from professional gamers who have been testing the forthcoming shooter. PCGames.de recently had a word with Valve CEO, Gabe Newell, and popped an interesting question; is cross-platform play a possibility? "That's certainly our goal. We never want to create these islands of players. Our view is players should be able to play as part of a community on whatever device they can," Gabe responded. He followed...