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2K Games and Gearbox Software have confirmed that their upcoming Borderlands 2 game on the PC will benefit from Valve’s special Steamworks suite of features, meaning players on that platform can take advantage of cloud saving, auto-updating or matchmaking mechanics straight from the Steam service.Borderlands 2 ... |
3 March 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Steam, the video game digital distribution service from Valve, has reported that it has managed to increase its year over year unit sales during 2011 by more than 100 percent, the seventh year that it has managed this impressive feat.The company also says that overall sales value has increased during the same period,... |
9 January 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The publisher Kalypso Media and the developers at bitComposer have announced that they are integrating the full functionality of the Steamworks suite from Valve into the upcoming Jagged Alliance” Back in Action video game.This means that players who get the packaged version of the game will be able to use the u... |
22 December 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Massive rumors have appeared over the weekend, as eagle-eyed users of Valve's Steam forums have spotted a new section marked Xbox Support, with many immediately taking this as a confirmation that Valve is going to bring its digital distribution service, or at least its Steamworks system, to the Xbox 360, like it... |
12 September 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Activision, the owner of the Call of Duty franchise, has confirmed that the newest installment in the series, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, will have full-pledged support for Valve's Steamworks suite of services.
Modern Warfare 3 is getting close to its release date in November, so Activision, together with... |
30 August 2011
05:15 GMT |
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Developer Relic has announced that it will be delivering a beta stage for its Retribution expansion for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II real time squad based strategy title in the early days of 2011 and that the new content will include support for Steamworks, the Valve developed system that allows chat, matchma... |
20 September 2010
07:01 GMT |
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Ubisoft has announced that R.U.S.E. will not be released with the infamous digital rights management software that has been plaguing other PC games until now. Instead, the real time strategy game will be using Steamworks, a much friendlier solution.The French publisher has decided to replace its own copy protection w... |
12 August 2010
14:21 GMT |
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The well known Worms franchise is coming back the PC with the announcement of the downloadable title Worms: Reloaded. It will be released on the 26th of August 2010 on Steam. It will contain a few of the specific functions of Valve's digital distribution platform, including Steam Achievements, Leaderboards and M... |
2 August 2010
04:30 GMT |
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Valve has announced that it would be releasing Alien Swarm for today as a Steam exclusive. The title is a remake of an Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod that allows four players to engage in cooperative tactical gameplay, taking out alien threats from a classical top-down perspective. This new version ... |
19 July 2010
03:16 GMT |
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Bethesda has decided to implement Steamworks in the PC version of Fallout: New Vegas and drop Games for Windows Live altogether. This means that the PC owners who buy Obsidian's next title will have to install Steam to get it to work. The reason the publisher gave for this move was that it was the most unobtrus... |
9 June 2010
10:41 GMT |
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Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalker is finally making its appearance on the PC through Steam, Valve's digital distribution platform. The game was very successful on Xbox Live Arcade, gathering quite a big following and sparking new interest in the famous trading card game. Two expansions were releas... |
25 May 2010
14:21 GMT |
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2K Games and Valve have announced that the upcoming turn-based strategy title Civilization V will come packaged with the Steamworks package, complete with features like automatic updating, Steam-based Achievements, easy delivery of downloadable content and better multiplayer matchmaking. The presence of Steamworks me... |
7 May 2010
13:41 GMT |
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Alpha Protocol has been much delayed, but it seems that the spy-oriented, role-playing action hybrid will be launched on May 28 in Europe and three days later in the United States. And, now, SEGA, the publisher of the video-game, has announced that it plans to use the Uniloc Digital Rights Management solution in orde... |
15 April 2010
08:58 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2 and its launch have been plagued by quite a few controversies. There was an unfortunate promotional video pulled hours after it was released, there was the terrorist level where the player shoots civilians and we have seen a boycott organized by Direct2Drive initially and then joined by Impulse and G... |
14 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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Digital download services Impulse and GamersGate have announced that, like Direct2Drive, they will not be selling copies of Modern Warfare 2, the upcoming first person shooter from Infinity Ward and Activision, because of its use of the Steamworks service for things such as authentication and patch delivery.The state... |
9 November 2009
06:54 GMT |
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Modern Warfare 2, the biggest videogame release of 2009, is set for November 10. But, as always, it is the best kept secrets that are most widely under assault and the title has apparently already arrived in the hands of some eager players, mainly from torrent sites but also from a few retail stores that have broken ... |
9 November 2009
05:02 GMT |
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Direct2Drive, the digital distribution service owned by IGN, has announced that it will not be selling Modern Warfare 2, the most recent entry in the very successful Call of Duty series, because Infinity Ward and Activision have decided to include Steamworks, created by Valve, in the release itself.The statement deli... |
6 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Infinity Ward, as the developer, and Activision, as the publisher, have announced that the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 is set to use the Steamworks suite from Valve to handle a variety of elements of the game experience, from patching and updating the title to offering achievements on the PC, providing anti-cheating me... |
26 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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Valve is definitely a company that's been on a high ascending trend lately, knowing that its latest title, Left 4 Dead, has been very successful, managing quite a lot of sales. The game ushered in a new level of multiplayer interaction and gave a new meaning to the term co-op, while the innovative Versus mode, i... |
15 December 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Empire: Total War is the fifth video game in the long running grand strategy franchise from Creative Assembly which is now published by SEGA. The developers are saying that the online play component of the game will be handled via the new Steamworks service offered by Valve. This means that online empire buildi... |
30 October 2008
13:21 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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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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First of all, don't get too excited yet: it's not a free game, nor something that you should download right away and have fun with. But, in the long run, it is something that will most likely bring a lot of benefits to the game world: Steamworks is a complete suite of publishing and development tools rangin... |
30 January 2008
03:44 GMT |
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