- 0 Members.
- 23 Guests.
Fans around the world to play Half-Life 2 this Saturday
This Saturday the 28,000 members of this Steam group are planning to play Half-Life 2 together.
The group hopes that the massive play session will shoot Half-Life 2 up the Steam most-played list and let Valve know how many people are still waiting for Half-Life 2: Episode 3. Valve certainly know this already, and probably receive dozens of emails but the group hopes to deliver the message in a more appreciative way.
“Instead of focusing efforts in a negative and disrespectful way, we have decided to gain Valve’s attention by delivering a basic message: Your oldest and longest running fanbase would like better communication,” they say on the Steam group page.
Event is set to kick off at 7PM GMT / 11AM PST this Saturday.
Steam’s Record of 2011 Announced
Steam has announced today, their full record results of the year 2011.
During 2011 the platform grew to offer over 1,800 games to over 40 million accounts. Year-over-year unit sales increased by more than 100% for the seventh straight year, and during the 2011 Holiday Sale Steam’s simultaneous user number eclipsed the 5 million player mark.
Meanwhile Steam doubled the amount of content delivered in 2011 vs. 2010, serving over 780 Petabytes of data to gamers around the world. To meet the increasing demand for games and services on the platform, the Steam infrastructure more than doubled its service capacity and a new content delivery architecture was deployed to improve user download rates.
Over 14.5 mil copies of Steamworks games were registered during the year, a 67% increase over 2010. Steamworks titles shipped during 2011 include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution and more. Since the suite of services was released three years ago, Steamworks has shipped in over 400 games.
"Steam and Steamworks continues to evolve to keep up with customer and developer demands for new services and content," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Support for in-game item trading prompted the exchange of over 19 million items. Support for Free to Play (FTP) games, launched in June, has spurred the launch of 18 FTP titles on Steam, with more coming in 2012. Looking forward, we are preparing for the launch of the Big Picture UI mode, which will allow gamers to experience Steam on large displays and in more rooms of the house."
Source: TGX
BEEP up to 75% off is on Game Getter now!
BEEP up to 75% off is on Game Getter now, it sells at the price only for $2.49!
More discounted games and free games in the coming four days, such as Lightfish, Hacker Evolution Duality, Icarus, Koya Rift and other popular games at the cheapest prices.
Empire Earth is free on GOG for the next 48 hours!
That’s a cool promo I guess, if you’re into RTS games and don’t mind a little outdated graphics this is going to be perfect for you. All you need to do is login to your GOG account and download the free game (you can create a free GOG account as well). Here’s the game description from GOG:
Control the destiny of a fledgling civilization through as many as 500,000 years of human history. From meagre beginnings you must exploit the natural resources around you to build an empire capable of dominating the Earth. But your rise to supremacy will not go unchallenged. As was the case throughout history, rival civilizations are certain to oppose you every step of the way.
New technologies, buildings and weapons become available as your civilization progresses through history. But bear in mind that advancement does not necessarily mean success. Your civilization might flourish during one Epoch only to be crushed in the next…
Six new games on Game Getter!
Remember how we posted about Game Getter? Six new games are on sale up to 90% off for gamers on Game Getter. This is indeed pretty cool and I think you guys may like these!
Here below are the six games on sale:
Solar 2 up to 85% off (save $17)
OIO: The Game at $3.99 only ($19.99 value)
Fortix 2 up to 85% off ($19.99 value)
Only $1.99 for Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time ($14.99)
inMomentum at 80% off (save $17)
SpaceChem at 80% off (save $16)
Remember: more people get in, the less you will pay at the end of the deal.
Tribes Ascend BETA Lottery: And the winners are…
We had 67 total entries. Most of users passed the quiz (64 valid quizes) and small amount of users failed the quiz (3). Questions were pretty easy this time just some Googling to do…
Lottery: Tribes Ascend BETA!
Here’s another small lottery, this time we have Tribes Ascend BETA keys to giveaway thanks to Hi-Rez Studios!
Burnout Paradise for free, if you live in the UK
People at HotUkDeals have figured out how to get Burnout Paradise for free via EA’s Origin service – in the UK, at least.
Open the Origin client, do a search for Burnout Paradise, add it to your basket, check out and then enter the word “PARADISE” (in caps) as the Promo Code. It’s worth noting that if you choose to pay by PayPal you won’t have to enter any credit card details during the checkout process. We have no idea how long the offer will last, so get it while it’s hot!
Update:
@Cocodwor: Works in France too and apparently some other european countries
Source: PC Gamer
Worth P(L)AYing: Tribes Ascend
Alright guys I have had enough of shitty games. Especially shitty shooters (talking to you: Modern Shitfare 3, Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Fail and Battlefield 3) I really feel like we gotta promote good games in here so… here’s Worth P(L)AYing! What is it? It’s simple, if you’re playing any good, underrated, indie (or not!), difficult and worth paying for (or free!) games and would like to share with us just post here. We’re going to post some titles from time to time that we think are worth playing and most of all paying for.
Social shopping group for games (Steam games too!)
The guys from G-FORUMS have created the first social shopping group for videogames.
What are social shopping groups? Well, I think that most of you have heard about groupon, but let’s talk about that site anyway. Groupon offers you a lot range of cheap deals for a lot of cities and countries, the condition to get those really cheap deals is to have at least #number# of people who is interested in the deal and that subscribe (paying) to it. In case that the condition is passed, you’ll receive via email the voucher code for that deal.
Getter (http://getter.g-forums.net/) uses a similiar method, based on the number of people who subscribe to the deal, but the game price is based on the number of people who subscribed to the deal… So the more people gets in, the less you will pay AT THE END of the deal. On other hands, if only a few people subscribe to the deal, you will pay almost a retail price…
They started their project with Sequence, an indie music game, and the deal will end in 12 days. The current price is setted to 3$ (instead of 5$) and it may be lowered to 2$ in the following days. It all depends on you guys, so… go support this nice initiative and get a fantastic game for a cheap price :)
I would like to remember you guys that you’ll have to pay AFTER the deal is ENDED and the price will the same for everyone, so don’t worry to join now….
News thanks to f3d3r1c0mb4t
Latest on Tue, 06:43 pm
: Midweek Madness Skyrim 33% off http://cdn.store.steampowered.com/message/1028181507618443955/
: fallout 3 goty just received a price drop to 20€; also fo:nv ultimate edition (includes all dlc and preorder bonuses) just released
: 
: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2521400
: http://login.ign.com/prime/promos/rochard/?display=notAuth
: new indie gala bundle later this week at www.indiegala.com/
: money money money
: can anyone explain what's the friggin' deal with Age of Empires III, a 5 years old game being sold as new @40$/€ on almost every DD platform?
: Facebook is archiving the old Facebook group of ours, here's new one https://www.facebook.com/pages/SteamUnpoweredeu/260963810615450?v=wall
: 
: Checkout Crytek's GFACE, a new social platform for gaming http://www.gface.com/closed-beta
: 
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jnk8n3WrXU
: new humble bundle live
: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWW92UhpZs&feature=player_embedded
: 
: http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/epic4chan/15893009078/1/tumblr_lxkmq8V94p1r9t8yb
: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_save_the_internet/?tta
: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/oxzje/official_steam_app_for_android_and_ios/c3l34d2
: there's still hope, first ratification of ACTA in polish parliament and even if it passes european parliament has to vote on it then
: yep, another protest today in Warsaw, and next one during National Stadium opening on Sunday
: So PL actually did sign ACTA? :( Is it right that those guy said sth like "i'll not be extorted by those inhabitants"? o.O
: the next indie royale bundle is live (serious sam indie bundle)
: 
Loading ...Cool shirts and shit
