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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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New Battlefield Bad Company 2 Patch will remove SecuROM on Steam version!
*UPDATE* 522175 is going live now. STEAM will launch later, possibly tomorrow, as it needs to go through extra QA before it goes live on Steam. Version 522175 is going live within a couple of minutes. This has fixed the multiplayer map CTD’s we experienced with 522174. [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=””…
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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: Square Enix and Eidos Interactive week!
This is surprising. But we like it! Friday – Monday
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Review: Battlefield Bad Company 2
Here’s another mini-review! This time we decided to check out the latest modern shooter – Bad Company 2.
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Weekend Deals (05.03.10)
6th March update: added Toki Tori on Steam. Good early morning. Let’s make it quick. Steam Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is available for 75% off until Monday! ($7.49/£5.49/6.99€). Steam added Toki Tori also on sale with 50% discount ($2.45/£1.62/2,23€). GamersGate Condemned: Criminal Origins, Elliptic Twist (also available on Mac). And more here (total 23…
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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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PlayStation Network – an error killed the consoles
PlayStation 3 users all over the planet (the regular version, not PS3 slim) can’t login to the PlayStation Network, use their DLCs or earn achievements (and play some single player games). The famous 8001050F error sets up the date in the device to January 1st 2000. What does it mean? It will disable your console.…
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Games For Windows Live Sale!
A very nice weekend sale on Games For Windows Live has just started, the first title is: Batman: Arkham Asylum for only $12.49 (75% off!) More games coming on next weekends. More information can be found here. Warning! Games For Windows Live is NOT supported in some countries.
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Weekend Deals (26.02.10)
GamersGate opened this weekend on Thursday, offering Majesty 2 The Fantasy Kingdom Sim – 75%, Batman Arkham Asylum – 60%, Aztaka – 50%, Spellforce Gold – 40%, Spellforce 2 Gold – 40%, Winter Challange – 50%, PikGem – 20%. The whole list is here. Also Steam is offering 75% discount for Spellforce (RPG/RTS) series. It…
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New Steam UI poll – vote now!
Just a simple poll, do you like the new user interface beta? Got any suggestions for it? Leave a comment and if we’ll get enough of them maybe we could send over our ideas to Valve Software. And here’s the poll: [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=””…
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STEAM UPDATE ANNOUNCED — PUBLIC BETA OPEN NOW
Have you seen the norwegian olympic curling teams pants yet? check them out in other news New Features Advance Leading Game Platform February 23, 2010 — Valve announces a new version of Steam which is immediately available in public beta. In the last 12 months, Steam has grown 200%. There are now 25 million users,…
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Weekend Deals (19.02.10)
Hello and welcome! Here is something for you. Good Old Games is back from expanding their titles and are offering RPGs from Divinity games (Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity) with 50% discount. Yay! I remember playing those games long time ago. Loved Divine Divinity title theme song. Get them both for $7.98 and save…
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Stardock Impulse now with TV Channel
Stardock launched today ImpulseTV. A new unique feature to its digital distribution platform Impulse. According to Jason Ocampo. ImpulseTV Goes Live on Stardock’s Impulse Digital Distribution Platform There’s a lot of real gems out there that people would normally never hear about. With ImpulseTV, we hope to shed some light on great games – both…
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Shattered Horizon: Free Weekend And 50% Off
(click on the picture to start the preload) Thanks to Rad86N, it came to my attention there will be from 19th to 21st February on Steam a Free Weekend promotion for Shattered Horizon™ including a hefty 50% discount. This follow the the yesterday release of the first content pack Moonrise for Shattered Horizon™. Moonrise is…
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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…