Team Fortress 2 has been a test bed for Valve's ideas, one of which was to let users create their own in-game items. This has turned into a lucrative marketplace, in which some item creators have made ...

Valve has added a couple of safeguards to prevent developers from creating fake in-game items to scam traders. When the case of Abstractism - the game whose developers created fake TF2 items to scam ...

Printing money from microtransactions is more difficult, and perhaps more interesting, than you might think. The Valve blog has updated with a recent post detailing the typical hat-creation process.

Even before Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2 item makers starting earning an average of $15,000 each, the shooter community was getting organised. Last year, TF2 item creators marshalled a team and, with ...