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  • EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000

      Electronic Arts has reportedly been making a play to purchase Half-Life and Portal studio Valve. The New York Times reports that EA has sought to purchase the firm for years, valuing the company at well over $1 billion. Valve isn’t likely to sell to anyone anytime soon. According to "people with knowledge of the…

  • Steam’s Big Picture

    That is all.

  • Ubisoft Scrapping Always-On DRM For PC Games

    In an interview on RPS today, Ubisoft tells us that they will no longer use their controversial “always-on” DRM. In fact, they quietly scrapped it months ago, but haven’t made that official until now. In what is a really remarkable turnaround, the publisher pledges that from now on they will only require a single online…

  • Steam for Linux coming in 2013

    Valve is expected to have the initial Steam Linux client available along with the Left 4 Dead 2 game in some form of beta soon, full-blown Linux push by Valve Software might not happen until around February of 2013. Valve has already been showing off Steam on Linux to partners and Left 4 Dead 2…

  • Tower Wars – Giveaway Winners!

    If you’ve received an e-mail from lottery@steamunpowered.eu you have won the key to Tower Wars! :-) Please CHECK YOUR SPAM folder! Thank you Supervillain Studios for this glorious giveaway!

  • Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a catastrophe

    Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software’s boss. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market. Many took his comment as a criticism of the changed user interface in…

  • Is There Any Deal – update!

    Check out these cool new features! Waitlist. That’s the list of games you want to buy when they get on better deal. Now you can set up at what price you want to be notified and on which shop. For example, you can set that you want to know about deal for some Steamworks game…

  • Tower Wars – Steam beta giveaway!

    Thanks to Tower Wars developer SuperVillain Studios we acquired 50 Steam Beta keys for you guys! ENTER THE LOTTERY NOW Lottery ends on Friday evening. Winners will be picked randomly as always.

  • Shootmania Beta – winners!

    So after hours of discussion we finally picked the winners You will receive Shootmania Beta keys in your private message inbox shortly. PunkZoli Kinder Machen Andy iZeMiZe .WiseGuy     As I said earlier we have another lottery coming up, 50 Steam keys this time, stay tuned!

  • Giveaway: 5 x Shootmania Beta!

    Here we go, this time we have 5 x Shootmania Beta keys to giveaway. All you need to do is enter the giveaway by drawing a doodle. Theme of the competition is: FAVORITE VIDEO GAME CHARACTER ON DRUGS Put ‘SHOOTMANIA CONTEST’ under description and use your username. CREATE A DOODLE & POST IT IN COMMENTS…

  • Update: Valve taking action against gifts from USA and Russia!

      People in the Steam gifting-scene from Russia and USA claim that they have received emails from Valve, urging them to stop gifting to players from Europe. On some accounts, buying games has been completely disabled. This is completely unacceptable. For most of people, buying games via a USA-gifter has never been about getting the…

  • Ravaged Giveaway winners!

    If you’ve received an e-mail looking like this or a private message from me you have won the key! See the list of winners now!

  • RAVAGED – Steam beta keys for you!!!

    Thanks to 2 Dawn Games we have just received 100 keys for the closed beta of Ravaged. Codes need to be redeemed on the official website site here first for access to the Steam keys. Here’s a short message from the 2 Dawn Games: There’s still a lot which is in progress (bug reporting here…

  • Steam to sell non-gaming software?

    So, according to The Verge Steam app for Android shows new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps. The "Genre" section of the app’s index lists genres like "accounting, education, software training," and "photo editing," with a total of…

  • Steam is officially coming to Linux

    Steam is coming to Linux, Valve has announced. The first game on Linux? Left 4 Dead 2. Valve’s 11-person Linux team will target the Ubuntu audience. The team’s made "good progress" getting Steam working with Linux this year, and all the "major features" are present and correct. Still work to do though, internal beta focused…

  • Steam for Android: Disable unwanted push notifications

    Hi guys! The Steam sale is pretty good as you all probably know by now, but there’s one really annoying thing I just noticed. If you’re using the Android version of Steam app you probably noticed that the app just launched itself few minutes ago and spammed the notification bar with Steam summer sale details.…

  • Valve counters EA’s Steam sales "cheapen intellectual property" accusation

    "If we thought having a 75 per cent sale on Portal 2 would cheapen Portal 2, we wouldn’t do it." Valve has countered EA’s accusation that Steam sales "cheapen" intellectual property, saying they in fact benefit games, publishers and gamers. Last month EA’s David DeMartini, who runs rival digital platform Origin, said Steam sales, which…

  • Green Man Gaming: 25% Off All The Games

    Here’s what they posted on the site yesteday. To kick things off we’re handing you a 25% voucher, which will get you 25% off the listed price for any product on our site, just use this code: 25OFF-ALLTH-EGAME

  • We need some changes around here!

    Hey, we’ve decided to reactivate this group and its website a little. You can expect a few subtle changes in the following weeks, from now on we’ll try to focus on the things we cared about the most in the beginning – which is software pricing around the globe, DRM and availability of software in…

  • It’s now illegal in Europe for companies to stop you selling used software, even if its distributed digitally only

    Do we have a breakthrough here? I can’t believe what I’m reading right now. Check some parts of it: An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his ‘used’ licences allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the internet. And then: By its judgment delivered today, the Court explains that the principle of…

  • Linux users permanently banned from Diablo III; Blizzard refusing to lift bans or give refunds

    Seriously, what the fuck? This game just became a lot worse. More information on official Diablo III forums. Update: Bashiok of Blizzard support replies to Linux bans: “…the circumstances for which they were banned were clear and accurate, and we are extremely confident in our findings. Playing the game on Linux, although not officially supported,…

  • The Secret World won’t be coming to Steam, subscription fee priced badly in Europe (especially UK)

    Hey guys, after all that Diablo 3 fiasco (really, really stupid game, broken core, items, drop system etc) I was looking for something cool and brand new to play with. I stumbled upon The Secret World (coming out very soon, sometime in July I think) – MMORPG from developer Funcom (makers of Anarchy Online and…

  • Blizzard forced to offer Diablo 3 refunds in South Korea

    Server and connection problems with Diablo III in South Korea have forced Blizzard to go against its previous policy and offer refunds to dissatisfied gamers after prodding from a Korean consumer protection agency. Blizzard announced through is Korean Diablo III site that it would start offering refunds to players lower than level 40 beginning on…

  • EA Origin: ‘Our aim is to be a better version of Steam’

    EA says it wants its Origin download platform to be a better version of all the other portals on the market. The firm’s senior VP of global ecommerce David DeMartini has also responded to Valve and Steam boss Gabe Newell’s criticism that Origin has yet to do anything ‘super-well’ – adding that he is delighted…