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  • CD-Key stores don’t give a fuck about privacy!

    I’ve recently found out (thanks to many user reports) that some CD-Key stores are requesting ID scans from their users after you purchase a game. They want users to send a passport, driver license or ID card scans or even pictures of buyers holding their ID card (with face visible)! Do not send them anything,…

  • Impulse: Stardock spring sale!

    Galactic Civilizations II Ultimate Edition Sins of a Solar Empire (Recommended by Steam Unpowered!) Demigod ObjectDesktop featuring: WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DesktopX, DeskScapes, SoundPackager, Tweak, WindowFX, SkinStudio, IconDeveloper, LogonStudio, Keyboard Launchpad, RightClick, Fences Pro Multiplicity Professional

  • E3 2010: New games from major publishers leaked?

    Here’s an E3 2010 line up list. It was supposed to be confidential… Click to enlarge. Source Update: Here’s more thanks to Dragoon – http://abstract360.com/2010/05/rumor-e3-2010-line-up-leaked/ Update 2: Confirmed fake! http://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/13410527050

  • Free games sponsored by The US Air Force!

    Thanks to US Air Force you can get those 3 games completely free – just go here! However the FileFront servers are having some sort of trouble right now so just wait a little bit ;-) Update: Here are some working mirrors! Rise and Fall : http://www.bigdownload.com/games/rise-and-fall-civilizations-at-war/pc/rise-and-fall-civilizations-at-war-full-free-game/ The Suffering: http://www.bigdownload.com/games/the-suffering/pc/the-suffering-full-free-game/ Area 51: http://www.bigdownload.com/games/area-51/pc/area-51-free-full-game/

  • Weekend Deals (16.05.10)

  • Steam: Rockstar Games sells Max Payne 2…with cracked .exe!

    Believe it or not but Rockstar Games is selling Max Payne 2 on Steam with a cracked executable file. Apparently the crack was created by one of the most popular cracker groups out there called MYTH. If you’re a gamer you probably realize who MYTH is/was in the past. Here’s an ASCII "Myth" logo hidden…

  • Portal is Free (official Valve video)

  • Steam: Portal is now FREE for Win and Mac users!

    Get it now – go here! It’s FREE until May 24th (it will remain on your Steam account after that)!

  • Steam for Mac goes live, Linux client announced!

      Steam, is now available to Apple users. Mac users will be able to download Portal, Football Manager 2010 and Torchlight at launch, with more titles added every Wednesday. "We’re very excited to be bringing Torchlight to the Mac," said Max Schaefer, co-founder of Runic Games, the company behind the title. "Having Steam for the…

  • Counter-Strike: Source Beta available!

    Available immediately, Valve has launched an extensive update to Counter-Strike: Source, now in beta. The update includes a host of new features and functionality developed in collaboration with Hidden Path Studios. This beta will run for a limited time, and once complete, the update will be deployed to all Counter-Strike: Source owners for free via…

  • VAC banned by a Valve employee?

    A Facepunch Studios forums user claims that he was banned by a Valve Employee for using a SourceMod plugin to activate some console cvars in the game itself (if you don’t know what SourceMod is it’s basically a plugin that’s being used on 99% of Source Engine games, you can do a lot of kinky…

  • Green Man Gaming – launched!

    Edit from TZer0: Small warning: this distribution uses SecuROM, a DRM-system which is known to cause headaches for gamers. You may remember this store – we posted about it few months ago. This is a pretty cool store, they launched it along with games for exactly £0.01 (games like: World of Goo, Darwinia, NecroVision: Lost…

  • Steam for Mac already being redesigned!

    Some Mac user (he’s in the Steam Mac beta program) already redesigned the interface to fit today’s Mac standards and this is what he said: However, the part I disliked about Steam on the Mac is the (understandably) less-than-native looking and feeling UI. While the entire application was recently redesigned (and re-engineered to utilize Webkit…

  • Impulse: All Corel Products 50% off!

    If you haven’t got a chance to get Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 or Ulead Video Studio 11.5 Plus now you can get them at 50% off!

  • Steam Client UI Update to Release on Monday

    After two months in beta and over twenty updates, the Steam Client UI Update is slated to release to all Steam users this coming Monday, April 26th. The beta has been a huge success. The number of people who participated exceeded Valve’s expectations, and so far people created 25 thousand posts to the beta user…

  • Another secret countdown at GOG.com

    It’s probably a new publisher joining GOG or maybe a big sale? We’ll see soon!

  • European Space Agency likes online games!

    Here’s a cool news for all the space geeks: “Video gaming has become one of the globe’s most popular pastimes. Fans say games are often educational, their detractors answer they are anything but. Might ESA have something to learn from gaming? A new Agency study says the answer is yes. It comes from ESA’s Technology…

  • Steam: closed Mac beta – sign up now!

    Go here to participate in the closed beta sign ups: http://store.steampowered.com/macbeta/ Applicants selected to test will be contacted in the comings weeks.

  • 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…

  • 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: (…) 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…

  • 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…

  • Review: Battlefield Bad Company 2

    Here’s another mini-review! This time we decided to check out the latest modern shooter – Bad Company 2.

  • 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.…

  • 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!