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Steam Gives Away Free Community Developed Games

We recently reported that Steam, Valve's leading digital content distribution network, would start hosting mods developed by the community. These are modifications made to games, which use the  engine of the title to create new gameplay modes with the same or different characters. Such was the case with Cou...

6 October 2008
03:00 GMT

Valve Supports Modders and Launches Their Creations on Steam

Valve has always been interested in the gaming community, especially modifying games. Let's not forget, one of the biggest online shooters, Counter Strike, was a result of a modification made to Valve's big game  Half Life. The success made Valve take the team behind it into its own studio and create n...

29 September 2008
14:01 GMT

America's Army Brought to High Schools in the Interest of Education

America's Army is a videogame developed by the United States Army in order to promote their programs and training to the young people of America. Although many critics have said that it is nothing less than a propaganda meant to get young people recruited into the Army, the game really caught on, due to the fact...

22 September 2008
19:01 GMT

Even Buddhist Monks Play Counter Strike

Buddhist monks and Counter Strike are definitely two things that seem to have absolutely nothing in common. Apparently, this is an outdated concept and some of the monks really got under the Counter Strike spell, like half of the gaming world at some point during their existence. And it seems that the Counter monks a...

14 March 2008
06:17 GMT

New Ban Request - No Junk Food in Video Games

There are people who would like to ban any and every video game there is in this world and totally wipe them out of our memory. Others have problems regarding the violent ones, while certain groups focus their efforts on different items/features within the video games. And things are not likely to change.So, a new ba...

23 January 2008
10:41 GMT

Counter Strike and EverQuest Banned in Brazil

It is really strange to hear such a piece of news, having in mind that we are talking here about some pretty old games (indeed, still very popular) - both of them are about NINE years old! Well, it seems that it's never too late to go on a banning spree in Brazil. According to AFP, this ruling was made in Octob...

21 January 2008
05:25 GMT

Online Competition - 'The eXperience' Participants 'Connected' by TeliaSonera

The eXperience is one of Norway's largest gaming events and this year it will host some 10,000 visitors; 2000 of them are going to be shooting each other's heads off online, in Counter Strike and Quake, for a prize of 80,000 NOK (£7,000 /10,000 Euros). According to... the Internet, The eXperience has chosen...

3 October 2007
06:10 GMT

Counter Strike - Training Ground for Tianjin's Police Officers

Everyone knows that video games can be both fun and educational, but not all games. For instance, you can't say that Counter Strike is an educational game. Or can you....? Well, according to this piece posted up on megagames.com, you can. More than 300 police officers from Tianjin (China's northern port cit...

28 September 2007
08:33 GMT

Valve to Place More Adverts in Counter-Strike

Nowadays, everything is an advertising platform and video games make one of the best platforms supporting adverts. With sports games it's understandable - you couldn't get the same gameplay experience without them. But what happens when Valve has plans in-game advertising for Counter-Strike? Why would they ...

18 May 2007
03:57 GMT

Counter-Strike Map Gets Teen Arrested

A Chinese student living in the US, has managed to get himself arrested. Nothing spectacular so far - most of you are probably thinking that this has something to do with guns or drugs. Not even close! The vigilant law enforcers nailed him for a gaming-related "felony", Counter-Strike to be more exact, as Joystiq rep...

2 May 2007
12:34 GMT

Thompson Emailes the FBI to Prosecute Kotaku

Ever had one of those days when everyone around you is telling good jokes and you have a dozen laughs that make your jaws and belly ake? Well, a day like that can get even better if you by any chance stumble upon Jack Thompson's comments in regards to violence in video games and how they influence us so negative...

24 April 2007
05:36 GMT

Jack Thompson Bitch Slapped

Jack Thompson had to say that the massacre taking place at Virginia Tech happened because of video games. He can't help it. It's like a compulsory thing I guess. Anyway, we shall see what other people have to say about this and why it appears that Thompson and his fellow believers (that games are to blame ...

23 April 2007
02:31 GMT

Terratec Headset Master 5.1 USB Offers True Surround Sound

Terratec touts that its Headset Master 5.1 USB offers true surround sound thanks to its built-in 5.1 speaker set-up. That's something that is difficult to achieve considering that all the speakers are located close to each other. This might suit your desires if you happen to be an avid FPS gamer. The USB powered...

30 March 2007
03:13 GMT

Updates from Valve Released Upon Demand

Valve has released the much anticipated updates for Half Life 1 Engine and Counter Strike, says Steam News. The site's post reads: "Updates to the Half-Life 1 Engine and Counter-Strike have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:...

6 March 2007
03:52 GMT




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