Category: News
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Activision is gayyy!
Gamasutra released a report about women in Activision games. Ex-Activision employees claim that the company is strongly avoiding putting any female characters as game’s main characters. One of the best examples is Black Lotus – a very promising game created by Treyarch. The main character was supposed to be a woman and it turned out…
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Grim Dawn coming to Steam!
We just found out that Grim Dawn is going to be a Steam game (99,999% sure). What is this game you ask? Grim Dawn is an action role-playing game intended for digital distribution on the PC. It is being developed by veterans of Iron Lore Entertainment, the makers of Titan Quest. Grim Dawn is being…
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Weekend Deals (05.08.10)
We’re back with Weekend Deals after a short brake here are the best deals on the net! Edit: Updated with GOG deals! Edit #2: Updated Impulse deals!
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Over 1 000 000 views!
The original thread concerning the price differences in Europe (and the rest of the world) on Steam has reached over 1 000 000 views lately! This isn’t a particularly good thing but at least it’s not closed and people still seem to rage about it (after almost 2 years!). Now go there and leave a…
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Worms Reloaded – exclusive pre-order items revealed!
Team 17 revealed exclusive pre-order items today! Here they are:
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Worms Reloaded
The great game with deadly little worms is coming back big! This time the comic mayhem continues in Worms™ Reloaded, an all-new edition available for PC through Steam. Worms™ Reloaded features up to four player online and offline multi-player, voice support, a raft of crazy new weapons (and the return of some iconic weapons from…
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Comparison script – Steam Unpowered edition!
We proudly present new version of Steam store price comparison script, originally created by tor (thanks!) modified by Zuko. New features: Works on DLCs Works on discounts Converts prices to your local currency Has colors ;-) Configuration (open up the script with your favorite text editor): showYourLocalCurrency – Enables/Disables price conversion to your local currency…
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VAC does make mistakes – Gabe Newell apologizes!
Here’s an official letter from Gabe Newell! Please read it. Hello, Recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. The problem was that Steam would fail a signature check between the disk…
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Summer Giveaway winners!
Here are the lottery results: We had 519 total entries. Most of users passed the quiz (503 valid answers) but there were some bad entries too (16 entries were bad which is weird because the questions couldn’t really be easier…). Here are some more statistics (if you don’t care just scroll down for the list…
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Comparison Script updated!
Thanks to tor the Comparison Script for Steam store works once more! Download it now by clicking here. Don’t know how to install it? It’s easy just look here (you need Opera, Firefox or Google Chrome).
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Eureka! Steam client tabbed chat!
Enable the latest Steam Beta to access this highly desired feature – tabbed chat! Although it’s lacking few things like automatically open the incoming chat message as new tab or middle clicking to close the chat tab, I’m sure they will work on it asap. Here’s the changelog: 7/23/2010 Tabbed user chat / web browser…
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Summer Giveaway
Click on the image below to participate in the lottery!
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Alien Swarm out now!
Get Alien Swarm now directly from Steam! INSTALL THE GAME
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GamesPlanet Summer Sale
We have some great news guys! GamesPlanet is having a massive Ubisoft Summer Fun sale, featuring: Anno 1404 @ £ 9.99 Anno Venice @ £13.99 Assassin’s Creed 2 @ £19.99 Call Of Juarez 2 @ £9.99 Far Cry 2 (Fortune’s edition) @ £7.49 GRAW 2 @ £4.99 HAWX @ £4.99 James Cameron’s Avatar @ £14.99…
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Brazilian issues with games
Recently a Brazilian gamer contacted us over Steam saying that they have a lot of problems with Steam in Brazil. First of all, the retail game distribution sucks over there, it sucks so much that they can’t even buy games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (or other Steam registerable games) in stores, they…
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Alien Swarm coming this Monday FREE on Steam!
Alien Swarm is a game created by Valve – mostly by people who were hired from the mod community. The game will be absolutely free! You will have to kill thousands of alien scum with your friends in order to complete the game – the game has 4 player co-op. You will be able to…
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THQ Summer Sale
Metro 2033: $12.50, Dawn of War 2: $7.50, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl: $5 + many more. Some keys may activate on steam (DOW2 & Metro 2033). Go to the THQ Store now and save big! Source: reddit
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Weekend Deals (16.07.10)
Here are the best deals on the net:
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Cloud
We were just invited to a really interesting project called Cloud. It’s a non-profit organization started and maintained to help the average user of Steam know basics of Steam. The group focuses on two main things – the enjoyment of your Steam account and its protection. I think it’s a really good cause and should…
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Onslaught in Bad Company 2 confirmed for PC
Onslaught (a new cooperative mode for Bad Company 2) will be available for the PC. There is no release date yet but it is 100% sure that the coop mode will be available on PC as well. Patrick Bach from DICE wants to support over 4 million of fans by releasing the new game mode.…
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Warning: FPS Banana infected!
Watch out when you’re visiting FPS Banana! It’s probably one of the best sites for maps, skins, mods, custom UIs and other gaming stuff but recently they’ve been infected with the "Black Internet" trojan. Do not even visit the site because you will get infected while you visit it (you don’t have to download anything).…
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In Brazil, users can break the DRM
Brazil just changed it’s approach to DRM. Under the law recently passed the content provider may not use mechanisms to block access to files, which you can dispose by so-called fair use. The rules in Brazil are very different from the rules applicable in such countries like the USA. Americans in contrast to the Brazilians…
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Infinity Ward & Activision Will Have Their Day in Court
August 5th 2010 will be the next date for another hearing between these two companies who produced Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. There has been a total of 3 lawsuits filed against Activision from former employees. Back on the 1st of March 2010 Activision fired West and Zampella, creators of the Call of Duty…
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Blizzard Real ID canceled
According to this forum post by Blizzard employee, Mike Morgaime, the company decided to get rid off the Real ID forum idea out of their heads. Right now the Real ID function will be only available and optional for gamers of World of Warcraft’s latest add-on Cataclysm and upcoming StarCraft 2. It seems that some…
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Weekend Deals (09.07.10)
Here are the best deals on the net: