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  • Uplay as vessel for malicious software

    I usually like titles with a pun or something on those lines, attempting to find a funny side even in a disaster. Not this time. Not when the threat is so dangerous and imminent. According to this article there’s a huge hole in Uplay’s browsers plugin which lets anybody run potentially anything on the victim’s…

  • Gabe Newell calls Windows 8 a catastrophe

    Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software’s boss. Speaking at the Casual Connect game conference in Seattle, Gabe Newell said the next version of Windows could mean big changes to the PC market. Many took his comment as a criticism of the changed user interface in…

  • 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…

  • Apple DRM update breaks apps

      Simple as that: the latest FairPlay* update made several different apps impossible to use. Also, first help from Apple, “delete, reinstall and it will work fine”, was of no use.   Has the problem been tracked down? Solved maybe? I don’t care. The money I spend always works, never needs a patch or an…

  • Gabe Newell – Steam for Linux will be publicly available later this year

    Source: Phoronix

  • Canonical in touch with Valve to ensure Steam is well supported on Ubuntu

        Lots of Steam on Linux news this week after Michael Larabel visited Valve office and confirmed Steam and Source Engine on Linux. Now, in a Live QA session for Ubuntu 12.04 release, Ubuntu Developer and Community Manager Jono Bacon said that he knows Canonical has been in touch with Valve to ensure top…

  • Steam is coming to Linux!

    Michael Larabel (of Phoronix) met with Valve today; tweets “steam is coming to Linux…”:   And another quote here: @michaellarabel #valve does have Linux games coming plus other very positive Linux plans… I’ll briefly post some screenshots and such tonight. And even more info here.

  • Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”

    “Gabe Newell denied meeting Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple in a recent podcast with Seven Day Cooldown, but that’s not all he said. He also mentioned that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play, but with a twist. “It’s going to be free-to-play — it’ll have some twists, but that’s the easiest way for people to…

  • Tribes Ascend Release Day Tomorrow!

    [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”][poll id=”48″] Here’s a sneak preview of great new features and a new classic Tribes map of the release day patch: [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

  • Valve actively looking for Linux devs

    Valve has been recruiting for at least one Linux specialist to help port Windows games with this job ad since January. But it looks like they’re getting very serious, and keen to push on with the project. Phoronix.com’s Michael Larabel has received an email from Gabe himself asking for help head hunting. The email to…

  • Tribes: Ascend release date

    Hi-Rez Studios announced that Tribes: Ascend will be released on April 12, 2012! Check out their new trailer (parody of Dead Island):

  • Tribes Ascend BETA Giveaway: And the winners are…

    We had 67 total entries. Most of users passed the quiz (64 valid quizes) and small amount of users failed the quiz (3). Questions were pretty easy this time just some Googling to do…

  • Giveaway: Tribes Ascend BETA!

    Here’s another small lottery, this time we have Tribes Ascend BETA keys to giveaway thanks to Hi-Rez Studios!

  • Worth P(L)AYing: Tribes Ascend

    Alright guys I have had enough of shitty games. Especially shitty shooters (talking to you: Modern Shitfare 3, Red Orchestra 2 Heroes of Fail and Battlefield 3) I really feel like we gotta promote good games in here so… here’s Worth P(L)AYing! What is it? It’s simple, if you’re playing any good, underrated, indie (or…

  • Poll time: Do you use EA’s Origin?

    Just a simple question to you guys, out of curiosity: [poll id=”44″]

  • Steam should provide buying international titles around the globe

    There’s a pretty interesting post on Steam Forums (thanks for the info Kossak) about regional versions of Steam games being released in Russia (yep, Russian only). The original poster thinks that "cheap region restricted versions should be optional, not forced". Lets expand the idea a little and say why not release games around the world…

  • Non-steam Dragon Age II PC DRM has online check

    Sad news, all non-Steam versions of Dragon Age II on PC will require an online check “after a select period of days”.  But how many days you’ll be allowed to play offline before being locked out, BioWare hasn’t decided. “We’ll have more info on this closer to release,” posted BioWare producer Fernando Melo on the…

  • 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…

  • R.U.S.E. will not utilize Ubisoft PC DRM

    Good news, the PC version of R.U.S.E. will not use Ubisoft’s 24/7 always online DRM, instead it will use Steamworks. Aymeric Evennou, Ubisoft senior community developer, stated on the official R.U.S.E. forums: “When R.U.S.E. is released in September, it will benefit from Valve’s Steamworks API to offer the best community experience to players. Consequently, a Steam…

  • Steam for Mac goes live, Linux client announced!

      Steam, is now available to Apple users. Mac users will be able to download Portal, Football Manager 2010 and Torchlight at launch, with more titles added every Wednesday. "We’re very excited to be bringing Torchlight to the Mac," said Max Schaefer, co-founder of Runic Games, the company behind the title. "Having Steam for the…

  • 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.…