Author: stranded
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PlayStation Network – an error killed the consoles
PlayStation 3 users all over the planet (the regular version, not PS3 slim) can’t login to the PlayStation Network, use their DLCs or earn achievements (and play some single player games). The famous 8001050F error sets up the date in the device to January 1st 2000. What does it mean? It will disable your console.…
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Games For Windows Live Sale!
A very nice weekend sale on Games For Windows Live has just started, the first title is: Batman: Arkham Asylum for only $12.49 (75% off!) More games coming on next weekends. More information can be found here. Warning! Games For Windows Live is NOT supported in some countries.
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New Steam UI poll – vote now!
Just a simple poll, do you like the new user interface beta? Got any suggestions for it? Leave a comment and if we’ll get enough of them maybe we could send over our ideas to Valve Software. And here’s the poll: [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=””…
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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,…
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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…
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Steam grows by 205% in 2009
Steam keeps growing even though the prices are very high in Europe – people are still paying for the digital downloads (although we can’t really say if Steam is more popular in USA or Europe). Steam, now has over 25 million active users. Those 25 million users managed a peak concurrency of 2.5 million games…
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30 commercial games released for free
Fallout, King’s Quest, Bonk, and more. Download the best titles that companies gave away! Here’s a quote from Games Radar: We like free stuff. That’s why we posted links to download and play 365 free games so you could have a decent game to play for every day of the year, free of charge. Unfortunately,…
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Impulse: 5% off anything!
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Aliens vs Predator: Demo available!
The demo is out now, get it cause Steam will be down today for maintenance.
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The Clock Is Ticking
Microsoft has exactly 27 days, 6 hours, 14 minutes and 34 seconds while I write this. 27 days for what you say? Well you probably heard about We Want Live group. They sent a letter to Microsoft and gave them 30 days to respond to their demands for the XboX Live service in Poland (Games…
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GOG: Activision games available!
OK here it is – the big secret turned out to be Activision games on GOG. You can buy two games for now: Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers or Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for 6 bucks each! And more games are coming soon.
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Good Old Games: Secret Countdown
What will be revealed in few hours on GOG? Is it a new game? New publisher joining their catalog? Local currency system? We will find out very soon!
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GTA: Chinatown Wars not available worldwide
Rockstar Games just released GTA Chinatown Wars for the iPhone but it turns out that it’s not available in all Apple app stores. It’s been 4 days since the most of the world can get it but still nothing in Switzerland, Mexico, New Zealand, Japan and many other countries. Most of you will probably say…
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Microsoft has 30 days to answer Polish players
Microsoft encouraged Polish players to buy original games (without multiplayer support and Live features) and stop modding their consoles. XboX players who are responsible for the revolt-ish website contacted Microsoft Poland and… Here’s what the kontrakcja.pl site owner posted on their site (translated freely by me): “We’re after talking to Microsoft Poland. (…) We live,…
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Steam Alternatives: Green Man Gaming
Green Man Gaming, a company located in the United Kingdom, is about to launch a digital download store for the PC with a difference, claiming its store will be able to offer "pre-owned" digital sales. "Previously the minute you had paid and downloaded your game it had no resale value", says Gian Luzio, Green Man’s…
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Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition with co-op mode
The Ultimate Edition of Zeno Clash was ported from Orange Box engine to the Left 4 Dead-ish engine and it should be working a little bit smoother on the XboX 360. Unfortunately the Source engine is limiting the Ace Team in making the PlayStation 3 version possible. The game is going to have a cooperative…
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Microsoft sells partially functional games in Poland
Some really interesting stuff is going on in Poland right now, Microsoft started a really weird action in which they promote the original games for XboX 360…but XboX Live service (and Games For Windows Live) doesn’t work in Poland which is absurd because Polish gamers pay for their games the same amounts of money like…
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Hugo Chavez: PlayStation is poison to children
Chavez, in his weekly radio-TV show "Alo Presidente," called on Venezuelan manufacturers to make "educational" toys and dolls with cultural peoples’ features to replace capitalistic parts like the Barbie doll that "have nothing to do with our culture." In expanding on his dislike of western toys and games — he already slammed Nintendo for promoting…
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Canonical is going to bring Steam to Ubuntu?
One of the UbuntuForums.org administrators – Matthew Helmke – created a poll concerning the most desired applications on the Ubuntu linux distribution. The poll is meant to show Canonical in which direction Ubuntu should go. We can find several commercial apps in the poll, such as: Adobe Photoshop, World of Warcraft, Steam and Apple iTunes.…
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Team Fortress 2 Contribute
Valve is going to put Team Fortress 2’s fanbase to work, giving them the chance to craft their own in-game items, weapons and avatars. It’s part of the new "Contribute" site, which will allow TF2 fans to submit their own ideas for things like hats and guns to Valve. The good ones will be included…
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Gabe Newell receives GDC Pioneer Award
The 2010 Game Developers Choice Awards, the highest honors in video game development, is beginning the announcement of its Special Awards for the tenth annual ceremony, taking place at GDC 2010 this March, and has named Valve co-founder Gabe Newell as the winner of this year’s Pioneer Award. The Pioneer Award — originated by the…
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Crayon Physics Deluxe – Pay what you want!
As some of you already know the makers of Crayon Physics Deluxe are having a birthday sale just like the critically acclaimed World of Goo had. Basically go to their site, click on the Buy The Game link and chose what price you wanna pay for the game. The game is kind of expensive on…
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Uplay – it’s all about you!
Ubisoft is launching their new service called Uplay. I gotta say that the presentation on their website is stunning! What is Uplay? It’s just another service like Games For Windows Live or Steam Community. Basically you have so called Uplay Win which has accomplishments (achievements), points and other unlockable stuff that is synchronized with your…
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Red Alert 3 unplayable online on Steam
Those who bought Red Alert 3 during Steam’s holiday sale are finding themselves with a partially useless game purchased at a fairly low price. Steam users report that the downloaded copies of Red Alert 3 don’t include serial numbers, which the game requires for online play. A similar issue occurred recently through Steam with the…
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Top 10 PC Games of 2009
Vote in our poll and chose the best game for PC of 2009. You can select more than one game. [poll id=”13″]