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Robert Culp (Wallace Breen) died at the age of 79
Robert Culp died at the age of 79. The American actor played the character of Wallace Breen in "Half-Life 2".
Western media informed about the death of Robert Culp, 79-year-old actor on March 24th. Culp died after he fell on a sidewalk in Los Angeles park, but police did not confirm that the collapse was the direct cause of his death.
Culp had played in number of film and television roles but he was well known in the gamers community all over the world as a previously mentioned character from Half-Life 2 "and also previously as an administrator at Black Mesa," Half-Life ", responsible for the so-called. "The incident at Black Mesa."
The actor left his wife, five children and grandchildren the same.
Switzerland Bans Violent Games
The Swiss National Council has officially enforced a law that will lead to banning of any violent video game. The ruling has not been revealed yet, but it will be confirmed once the Swiss government reveals the requirements. However, the most likeliest series of things to come will be a ban on the distribution, production, and sale of any games that are rated PEGI 16+ and PEGI 18+.
News thanks to MapMan – Source: The Gaming Scene
Microtransactions Coming Soon To Steam
According to Voodoo Extreme 3D at IGN next month’s Steam client update will introduce support for much-hated microtransactions:
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Microtransactions
Want to offer your customers a scabbard for their sword? New tires? The latest in night vision goggles? Now you can through microtransaction support in Steamworks.
Your item server can now be easily integrated with Steamworks so that Steam users can buy and instantly use the items they want – all without leaving the game. Steam handles all of the billing through the user’s Steam account.
Steam Cloud
Now with a greatly expanded capacity — now 100 MB per user, per game. The Steam Cloud API allows your game to write and retrieve files for each user.
Steam Total Makeover
The new Steam client makes finding friends, tracking achievements, reading news, organizing game collections, and keeping up to date easier than they ever have been before.
Even when creating visual aids, Valve remembers to screw mainland Europe.
Thanks to Kossak for providing the news from VE3D.IGN.COM (click for full article)!
International Consumer Day
It was a good day yesterday. On March 15th whole Europe was celebrating the International Consumer Day.
People from We Want Live managed to contact Polish Federation of Consumers. And according to them Microsoft is selling a broken/missing product on the Polish market and the Polish XboX 360 users can easily get their money back by returning their consoles to the shop. And there is a chance that you will be able to do the same…with XboX 360 games that don’t have working multiplayer features.
We Want Live members gathered over 100 different things that is being treated as proof by the Federation. It’s mostly scans and pictures of user manuals of the console (which encourage people to create an XboX Live account and plug their console to the Internet).
Will Microsoft finally say something about it? Even though they did respond in few sentences earlier, some sort of longer and more official message should be announced in the media.
Steam: Mac support on the way?
Is Steam coming to Mac users? It seems so! Check out this thread (they found some hidden TF2, Left 4 Dead and Portal images and new Steam’s UI Mac buttons): http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1157656
We Want Live – about to receive an answer? (THEY DID!)
There’s a hope for Polish XboX Live and Games For Windows Live. As far as I know the creators of WWL are about to receive an official statement from Microsoft head quarters in USA.
Too bad Microsoft waited a month to do this… We will post more details here as soon as we know something.
UPDATE:
Here’s an official Microsoft statement about XboX Live sevice in Poland:
Xbox is very committed to the Polish market and is appreciative of the passion and excitement that our community of users show for our products, including Xbox LIVE. This year, 2010, is going to be a historic year for Xbox and our aim is to bring to our Polish community of users the full and best interactive experiences possible on the Xbox 360. We currently finalizing our plans for the Polish market that we will become public at the forthcoming E3 consumer trade show, later in June. Our Polish community of Xbox users should expect to hear more about how we will take the Xbox 360 experience to another level in Poland.
They didn’t even bother to sign the freaking letter (no one knows who wrote this, it just says Microsoft). I say fuck them and their legal games in Poland, just don’t buy new XboX 360 games if your country isn’t supported – like the upcoming Bad Company 2 (a 100% multiplayer game which has no…multiplayer).
I’ll get back to laughing now! :)
Steam: Midweek Madness – Indie Games
Pretty cool midweek madness on Steam:
There’s a pack of games for 9.99€ (2€ for each game if you don’t want the pack). Including: Gridrunner, Space Giraffe, Bullet Candy, Bob Came in Pieces, Altitude, Super Laser Racer, and Galcon Fusion!
Less than a day left for Microsoft to respond!
That’s right, it’s less than a day for Microsoft to respond on the lack of XboX Live and Games For Windows Live in Poland (and the most of central, eastern European countries). I wonder if they’re going to send anything at all, at least an e-mail?
We’ll see!
Pre-ordering on Steam? Think twice.
Some angry Steam user posted a very interesting message on the official Steam Forums. He wanted a refund for his pre-order of Aliens vs Predator game (for whatever reason, you can always refund a pre-order). But he bought the game with a discounted game Psychonauts ($2 at a time).
What’s wrong you may think? Well, according to Steam Support you can’t refund only one game if you put them both in the shopping cart. And now the guy had to “give back” (and get back the $2 of course) Psychonauts in order to get his money for AvP back.
After that he wanted a refund for his pre-ordered copy of Battlefield Bad Company 2. I wonder why? ;-)
Whats’s our point? Watch out there kids, don’t get pre-orders with regular games!
PS Our favorite moderators already closed the topic.
Steam: New S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game with cool promo
If you happen to own previous S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games (Shadow of Chernobyl or Clear Sky) on your Steam account you can get the newest (Call of Pripyat) for 9€ (or 50% less, depends on a Tier).
Simply buy the game and let it check if you have older Chernobyl games on your account, if yes the new one will be working ok.
However, you cannot gift Call of Pripyat with the discounted price to anyone but that’s pretty obvious.
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