Category: Steam
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Steam trading will require Steam Guard
Valve is fighting scammers? On December 12th, Steam Trading will require that your account has had Steam Guard enabled for at least 15 days before you can trade items. Anyone else exicted about winter sale? How about winter lottery on Steam Unpowered? :-)
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Take it from me!
Seriously add me for some free DOTA2, I have 6 copies left – one copy per user! Add me on Steam now. Update: No more DOTA 2! When I have some more I will post it here.
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Steam sales coming up!
According to the Secret of the Magic Crystals developer Valve is having two sales soon, first one Autumn (nov 21-27) and second one traditionally Winter (Dec 20-Jan 4). Additionally the CEO of this crazy game came up with the idea to set the price at $1.99 and try to generate a total sale of 50.000+…
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Poll Time: Steam Pre-Purchase Rewards
Here’s another Poll Time post. This time we’re asking you about the new Pre-Purchase Rewards option that showed up with Tomb Raider’s pre-purchase offer on Steam. It looks like they took that from Kick Starter (at least I didn’t see any of these promos on large scale before Kick Starter). Here’s the question: [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes”…
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Steam Halloween Sale
There’s a Halloween sale on Steam, check it out. Our Halloween Lottery should be up soon ;-)
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Indie Royale Halloween Bundle and Indie Gala X available!
Humble Bundle’s baby brother, Indie Royale, is having another sale at the moment . The bundle will get you the following games:
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Valve Linux Steam Client Beta Application
Valve is looking for Linux gamers to install and test their new Steam for Linux client. They are, however, primarily interested in experienced Linux users. Get access to the beta now!
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Steam Greenlight adds software category!
Steam Greenlight has been updated today, adding the ability for developers to post non-gaming software for consideration by the Community. Software in Steam Greenlight will work just like games, where Valve is looking to the community to provide data on what they would like to see made available via Steam. Launched on August 30, Greenlight…
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Steam browser vulnerability puts users at risk
The steam:// URL is a quick way to install and launch games from a browser. Hardware and software security company Revuln pointed out that Safari can launch steam:// commands silently without the user knowing, providing a window of opportunity for attackers. The report highlights ways in which local processes that exist on our PCs as…
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Software finally arrives on Steam!
Steam finally launched their software distribution section. There are a couple of interesting postitions on Steam right now including: ArtRage Studio Pro, CameraBag 2, GameMaker: Studio, 3D-Coat, 3D Mark Vantage and 3D Mark 11 and of course Valve’s free Source Filmmaker. Some of these use Steam Cloud and Steam Workshop which is pretty cool I…
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EA wants to buy Valve for $1 000 000 000
Electronic Arts has reportedly been making a play to purchase Half-Life and Portal studio Valve. The New York Times reports that EA has sought to purchase the firm for years, valuing the company at well over $1 billion. Valve isn’t likely to sell to anyone anytime soon. According to "people with knowledge of the…
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Steam’s Big Picture
That is all.
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Steam for Linux coming in 2013
Valve is expected to have the initial Steam Linux client available along with the Left 4 Dead 2 game in some form of beta soon, full-blown Linux push by Valve Software might not happen until around February of 2013. Valve has already been showing off Steam on Linux to partners and Left 4 Dead 2…
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Valve to start selling non-game software on Steam!
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Steam to sell non-gaming software?
So, according to The Verge Steam app for Android shows new categories that have little to do with gaming, which could be a shred of evidence that Valve is considering different kinds of apps. The "Genre" section of the app’s index lists genres like "accounting, education, software training," and "photo editing," with a total of…
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Steam is officially coming to Linux
Steam is coming to Linux, Valve has announced. The first game on Linux? Left 4 Dead 2. Valve’s 11-person Linux team will target the Ubuntu audience. The team’s made "good progress" getting Steam working with Linux this year, and all the "major features" are present and correct. Still work to do though, internal beta focused…
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Steam for Android: Disable unwanted push notifications
Hi guys! The Steam sale is pretty good as you all probably know by now, but there’s one really annoying thing I just noticed. If you’re using the Android version of Steam app you probably noticed that the app just launched itself few minutes ago and spammed the notification bar with Steam summer sale details.…
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Steam Summer Sale: Full list of Bundles/Packs
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Valve counters EA’s Steam sales "cheapen intellectual property" accusation
"If we thought having a 75 per cent sale on Portal 2 would cheapen Portal 2, we wouldn’t do it." Valve has countered EA’s accusation that Steam sales "cheapen" intellectual property, saying they in fact benefit games, publishers and gamers. Last month EA’s David DeMartini, who runs rival digital platform Origin, said Steam sales, which…
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Steam to allow account name changes in the future?
“For those who are unaware, users that signed up for the Steam service in its early days are forced to login with the email address that they signed up with many years ago. For a lot of us, that means we’re signing in with an email address that no longer has relevance and is potentially…
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Steam Greenlight announced!
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Steam Summer Sale: Day 1-11 indie bundles revealed and more!
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EA: Origin won’t copy Steam 75% off sales
Origin boss David DeMartini told Gamesindustry International that random deep-discounting of games "cheapens" intellectual property, and promised not to copy the practice. "We won’t be doing that," he said, bluntly. "Obviously they think it’s the right thing to do after a certain amount of time. I just think it cheapens your intellectual property. “ "I…
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Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – $15 on all platforms!
Valve has just announced the launch date of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: August 21. They’ve also mentioned that CS:GO will cost $15 “on all platforms.” I’m happy that Valve is not using the 1€ = $1 scheme, lets just hope they will keep their word.
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Gabe Newell – Steam for Linux will be publicly available later this year
Source: Phoronix