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I got a little riddle for you all: what's the only Zombie Apocalypse that people (well, gamers) are actually eagerly awaiting to happen? You get ten shogun shells to store in your survival kit if you answered Left 4 Dead.The rather sad news is that, probably because of an outbreak of zombie infestation which wip... |
26 August 2008
08:44 GMT |
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No, it's not a steam locomotive! It is in fact the latest built steam powered car dubbed 'Inspiration', which will attempt this year to break the world land speed record for steam powered land vehicles, a record that has been standing up for more than one century and which was set on Daytona Beach in 1... |
2 July 2008
10:49 GMT |
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If you are interested in hacking news, then you must know about 20 years old hacker MaddoxX - the guy managed, one year ago, to hack a third party Valve file server called Steam Cyber Cafe and posted online an archived file that included credit card numbers, transaction amounts, the company's supposed bank balan... |
30 June 2008
03:41 GMT |
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Steam is now host to the first game in the episodic content series created by Penny Arcade. The game, which is awesomely named Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One, will cost you 13 Euros to buy, which is less than the price for it on the Xbox Live Arcade, where you have to sp... |
13 June 2008
07:21 GMT |
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Valve had a mini-summit in Seattle today and detailed a few of their plans for the future. We are thrilled and now we feel the love. We also understand that all those who kept saying that digital distribution is the future are slowly starting to have a point. Because of various reasons. Let's check a few of them... |
30 May 2008
04:10 GMT |
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I've already told you that Steam is Valve's way of taking over the gaming world first, and of the real world after that. How else could you explain the fact that they are putting up a little thing called the "Eidos Everything Pack" which is clearly designed to make gamers fall in love with Steam and then ac... |
26 May 2008
09:39 GMT |
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Audiosurf is one of those indie games that seem to take the world by storm. The idea is so simple and so well implemented that it immediately captures the player and drives him to spend every last free minute that isn't allocated to sleeping, eating, washing or working, on the game. Well, the last part might be ... |
8 May 2008
20:26 GMT |
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A steam engine is an external combustion heat engine, used to convert heat energy into mechanical work. It was first invented about three centuries ago and quickly became widespread throughout the world, mostly used for steam locomotives. Even today steam engines are extremely popular, although they are not used anym... |
14 April 2008
09:29 GMT |
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There are some game companies that never seem to get a break when they need it, former industry icons that have fallen from their top position and are slowly trying to pick up the pieces and create something new from the glory of old.Atari is such a company. After the arcade success it has enjoyed between 1980 and ro... |
27 March 2008
19:06 GMT |
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Nunchuck's Ninja Reflex, previously exclusive to the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS, is receiving a PC version, courtesy of Valve and their Steamworks package. Valve and Nunchuck have announced that the game is now available for download from Steam at the price of $9.95. It's worth noting that the Wii ver... |
24 March 2008
05:40 GMT |
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The signs were always there that Valve was bend on becoming a superpower. They were always humble. After the huge success of Half Life one, they quickly went back to work. They toiled for seven years to release a sequel and justified it all by saying that they wanted to make a perfect game. And Half Life 2 is pretty ... |
18 March 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Valve is a shrewd, shrewd company. First they create one of the defining games of the '90s with Half Life. Then, they create a digital distribution channel that threatens traditional disk-in-a-case games with extinction, codenamed Steam. And then, they release The Orange Box, a compendium of titles packaged toge... |
14 March 2008
04:46 GMT |
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In the last few weeks Atari seems to be making a lot of headlines. After years of poor financial results and even poor game sales, Infogrames, the parent company of Atari, seems bent on forging a new and bright future for the Atari name in the games industry.After Infogrames changed leadership and brought in David Ga... |
13 March 2008
03:32 GMT |
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If I hadn't known any better, I could have sworn this was a conspiration to discredit hybrid and electrical vehicles, in the benefit of petrol cars. Since the end of the last month, hybrid cars have gone down the drain, as scientists proved that they actually produce more carbon dioxide than petrol vehicles. Ins... |
11 March 2008
11:43 GMT |
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A round table of industry veterans, like Peter Molyneux, Phil Harrison, Chris Taylor, Raph Koster and Neil Young, recently sat down to offer answers relating to the above question. While there is no agreement on the subject, it's becoming clearer and clearer that change is needed so that the PC game market can s... |
27 February 2008
05:40 GMT |
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Doug Lombari, vice president of marketing at Valve, talked about the plans for the popular games download service at the Game Developers Conference. And some of his remarks are rather surprising.Last year has been a good year for Steam. One doesn't need to look at the numbers of games downloaded to know that. Fo... |
26 February 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The old model of buying a game in a case is slowly dying out. One more nail in the coffin is the WiiWare initiative from Nintendo. It aims to be a digital distribution channel for games that is easily accessible, largely customizable and offers all developers the possibility to get games out to players.Think of it in... |
20 February 2008
10:46 GMT |
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AudioSurf is kind of a Guitar Hero that has no guitar and instead of "boringly" playing the tunes, you are actually driving a car or, better said, a space ship. Still, the best part about it is the fact that you can upload your own music and AudioSurf will generate 3D tracks of your uploaded songs, enabling you to su... |
12 February 2008
06:38 GMT |
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Eve Online, the space-based MMORPG, is in the history books, for good. Oh, yes... we know many people have this opinion since forever, but now it's official, at least from one point of view: CCP's Eve Online is the first MMO game to be available for download on Steam!To celebrate this achievement (world rec... |
23 January 2008
03:12 GMT |
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Valve's Steam gamers seem to play more on NVIDIA hardware than all the other graphic platforms combined, according to a Steam Hardware Survey. And this is a reason for freebies, or at least this is what Valve and NVIDIA have come up with in what is more a marketing move than a "we love the gamers" statement. Thi... |
10 January 2008
04:06 GMT |
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Rockstar Games and Valve have announced the launch of the Rockstar full game library of PC games on Steam. This means that any titles produced by the developers can be purchased online, with a very special offer being available until the 11th of January: a 10% discount for any title bought.Both sides involved in thi... |
7 January 2008
02:53 GMT |
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So you're sad that Christmas is gone and there are no more presents to be had, huh? Well, if you have let's say... 20 bucks on you right now, you can head over to Steam and make yourself a nice present, consisting of a popular video game. As the headline clearly says (and it's no lie) Steam is offering... |
27 December 2007
05:11 GMT |
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Gamers like to have the latest and the best hardware parts they can get their hands on, money permitting, of course. So the latest survey from the game producer Valve comes as a really big hit as most Steam users reported that they are still using single core processors for all their gaming needs. The survey took pla... |
6 August 2007
04:00 GMT |
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What do you know, Steam (Valve's digital distribution service) is taking its first Japanese developer on board: Capcom. Devil May Cry's developer will, from now on, distribute its titles through Valve's service, as more and more developers and publishers are doing the same thing, to ease costs.Just a l... |
12 June 2007
18:56 GMT |
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Focus Home Interactive has recently made an agreement with Valve official, in an effort to introduce TrackMania United via Steam, a leading digital distribution platform for PC games. TrackMania United is the newest title in the racing series available now at a 20% discount for those who preorder it via Steam by June... |
8 June 2007
06:27 GMT |
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Just in case you've forgotten, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Anniversary will be distributed to gamers worldwide in three ways: 1 - retailers (of course); 2 - |
5 June 2007
05:48 GMT |
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With all the gaming systems, developers and publishers surrounding us today, the gaming market looks like total chaos. Actually, things are more organized today than ever before. One thing that helps keep this balance is the preordering of games. Gameplayer took on this topic and reckoned that game preorders may lead... |
31 May 2007
06:10 GMT |
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Whoever said that Tomb Raider wasn't popular was sadly mistaking. The game will not only hit all major retailers around the globe, but will be digitally distributed through Steam and GameTap's subscription service distribution also. With a June 5th release schedule, you'd better not be alone at the st... |
30 May 2007
07:51 GMT |
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Since Microsoft launched their Xbox Live service, add-ons/official mods became another way of making gamers reach deeper into their pockets. Thus, the move caught other companies' attention and they did the same with their products. Before we knew it, any content whatsoever, added after a title's release, h... |
28 May 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is the long-anticipated sequel to the original Team Fortress mod for Quake. It's a Valve game and we know how much they like making multiplayer team-based first-person shooters with strategy elements. The game has been through various concepts and designs, yet it's finally launching on three... |
29 March 2007
04:00 GMT |
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Eidos has teamed up with Valve to offer its best titles through Steam, Valve's digital distribution system. Famous titles like Battlestations Midway, Just Cause, Hitman, Tomb Raider and Commandos will surely be there on the list and as for the price of each game, they will be US$ 35.95 for more recent games and ... |
16 March 2007
11:03 GMT |
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