Category: News
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Weekend Deals (12.11.10)
Woow, what a cool date… :) Let’s check the latest week news around the various sites.Today’s games use 23-30% of Kinect; Shops slam Steam monopoly/Valve is killing market!; APB is coming back – sold with £1.5 mil; Stargate Worlds MMO developer loses license; You exploit a glitch in CoD: BO? cheater, douchebag (by Treyarch)!; House…
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Half-life 2 series like you never seen before
All of us have played Half-life 2 series through many times. Now it’s time to play it through one more time and experience the beautiful world which was reanimated by FakeFactory with his brand new FakeFactory’s Cinematic Mod 10.90 (released on 23th Oct). Latest patch is 10.94. This mod is total graphical/musical conversion of Half-life…
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Weekend Deals (05.11.10)
Handful news from past weeks: DOTA SCII mod shown @BlizzCon; Blizzard exited about 4th WoW expansion; Hitman 5 is coming!; APB not dead? Back to the Future series by Telltale, pre-order it, get free copy of Puzzle Agent and support Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research; Microsoft claims that new PC Marketplace is NOT…
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Microsoft launched Kinect
Last night Microsoft hired out New York’s iconic Times Square to launch Kinect to North Americans. And with such an audacious event came the need to put on a bloody good show. Launch pictures from Gamesradar. Microsoft expecting to sell more than 3 million units by year’s end. So will you help them achive this?…
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Week-long & Halloween deals in digital stores
TOC: Steam Impulse GamersGate GetGames EA Store Good old Games Green Man Gaming GamesPlanet Games on Demand Steam Steam has launched THQ WEEK sale. Monday, 25th Oct – Red Faction series -75% Tuesday, 26th Oct – Titan Quest Gold -75% Wednesday, 27th Oct – Metro 2033 -66% (if you like S.T.A.L.K.E.R., you will like this!…
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Review (Russian): Puzzle Dimension
A review in Russian language made by our dear user howhigh1337. Want your reviews posted here? Send a PM to any admin or become a news editor yourself.
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Weekend Deals (22.10.10)
Sorry guys for late post, I was in Latvia til Friday late evening. Few handpicked news:Steam has over 30 million users; CoD: Black Ops with Steamworks; Civ 5 DLC coming on 25th Oct; Trine 2 coming in spring 2011; 80% willing to play with 3D glasses; WoW Cataclysm min. requirements; Microsoft brings out “Steam…
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We are under attack! (updated: NOT!)
Good news everyone! All is good. Nobody went to war against us. We are NOT under attack. It has been simple row of unfortunate accidents…. Steam community problem started with Steam bug, which corrupted event and spammed users every time the logged in. We lost 100 users or so. Screenshots were made (as seen below…
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Weekend Deals (15.10.10)
Yo, dudes, I thought that I add some news also here, so let me know, If you like it or not New Duke is coming soon; Valve is making DotA 2; Valve will not start trade-in service; Pirates of Carribean RPG cancelled; Dragon Age 2 pre-orderers get free content, screenshots; fan made Duke Nukem will…
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In Duke We Trust?
The most waited and resurrected game is now on our doorstep. After 12 years of failures and money loss it is finally coming true. The game is developed by Gearbox, the maker of Borderlands and other cool titles, and should come out early 2011 (Valve time). Lately Gearbox wanted to distribute Duke Nukem Forever demo…
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Weekend Deals (08.10.10)
“Good news everyone, your new mission is to explore all good deals in digital world”. (Sorry, I am watching too much Futurama lately :D) Oh yes, btw, WoW Cataclysm in stores on 7th December, should cost ca $40. Updated: more detailed info on GamesPlanet deals, also added hint about awesome date (10/10/10) deal ;)
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New digital distributor player emerges: Atomblock
[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=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”] Distributor Atomblock is to launch a new download site in UK with 450 titles ready to download from clients including EA, Codemasters, Ubisoft and 2K Games. Atomblock plans to have over…
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SavyGamer » Alpha Protocol, PC – €2.49 –NO LONGER VAILD
Seems the price was a mistake. Now the game cost €24.90-. Kudos to everyone who bought the game for €2.49 Alpha Protocol, PC – £2.25 07/10/2010 in Digital Distribution Alpha Protocol, PC – £2.25 This offer is only officially possible to get in certain parts of Europe, but by using this workaround you…
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SteamUnpowered.eu being false-reported as Web Forgery
Update: Currently all is good, SteamUnpowered.eu is not being reported as Web Forgery :) It all started with DLC post. Now almost every new post is reported as forgery attack site. Currently you can experience it in Weekend Deal post https://steamunpowered.eu/weekend-deals-01-10-10/ But it is not true! SteamUnpowered.eu does not contain any bad, malicious scripts…
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Weekend Deals (01.10.10)
Hello and good morning :) Let’s not waste time and open our (steam) wallet… :D Updated: GetGames supports now paypal + coupon for discounts
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Digital money draining machine Steam Wallet is now live
The Steam Wallet has officially been released along with the Team Fortress 2 Mann Co. Store, where players can now purchase items right within TF2.
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The end of the DLC’s?
Gamespot revealed scary statistics – only 15% PC and 6% of console consumers buy DLCs. And this may be end of the DLCs and rise of the prices and sequels or new name with re-skinned game (if you know what I mean … ;D) And here is the article: Industry-research group finds small minority…
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SavyGamer » APB Steam Refund
APB Steam refund update 25/09/2010 in Digital Distribution, News If you bought APB from Steam, apparently EA are now offering a free game as a refund. Valve put up a brick wall, but EA are making up for the fact that customer who bought their game ended up with nothing to show for it.…
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Early access to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light demo on Steam
To get the early access simply click here and login to Gamespot to receive your key! Mine is already downloading :-)
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Weekend Deals (25.09.10)
Here are some great deals for the upcoming Saturday, this time on September 25th, that will make you wanna fight! Here’s another set of Weekend Battle of Deals:
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PC games via downloads have exceeded shop sales!
In the first six months of 2010, 11.2 million full games for the PC were bought online compared to 8.2 million physical unit sales, said NPD Group. Topping the list of download sites was Steam, the online shop of game developer Valve which created Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and many others. Despite the prevalence of…
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Everyone on Amazon hates Civilization 5 because of Steam
Just see this page on Amazon. That’s actually pretty horrifying. For people like me and most of you here (should I say Steam veterans?) the flaws of Steam app and the whole system are very well known and we pretty much ignore them at this point. But stuff that ‘regular’ people have to go through…
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Molyneux’s son asks for Half-Life 3
Peter Molyneux’s (the maker of Dungeon Keeper, Black & White and a lot more games) son asks for Half-Life 3:
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GOG conference – live transmission
Check this out, someone is already using steamunpowered as his username lol: Watch this at: http://www.transmisjeonline.pl/gogconference