Category: Games
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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…
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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…
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Great indie games pack, pay what you want!!!
Get those games below for whatever price you want! Do it quickly, the promo ends in 7 days!
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Another secret countdown at GOG.com
It’s probably a new publisher joining GOG or maybe a big sale? We’ll see soon!
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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
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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.…
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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!
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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!
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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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Command and Conquer Classics for Free
(click on the picture to see the deal) Electronic Arts celebrate this year Valentines Day by giving away for free Command & Conquer™ Classic games. This involves the first Command & Conquer ever, Command & Conquer Tiberium Dawn Command & Conquer Red Alert 1 Command & Conquer 2 Tiberian Sun including the expansion pack Firestorm…
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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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We Want Live: Launches in English!
The voice of Polish XboX 360 gamers is even louder thanks to their refreshed website and language version of the site. If you want Live in your country join their cause and maybe in near future the community will force Microsoft to bring Live to Central and Eastern Europe!
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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,…