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  • Steam: 2 new releases, 2 pre-purchases

    Two new games released and two pre-purchases that have a fair price.

  • L4D2 Pre-Purchase unfair regional pricing

    If you are thinking about pre-purchasing L4D2, you should think twice, as you might be yet another victim of Valve’s regional pricing scam. Previously only differing the price between US Dollar, Euro and British Pound, they now topped it by even discriminating between the European countries. So we not only have the well known unfair…

  • Weekend Deals (25.09.09)

    Here we go!

  • Steam: EA Games lowered prices in Europe!

    Thanks for all the guys who noticed it (I really have no time to check the Steam store right now). As the news title says, some EA Games are priced really reasonable on Steam comparing to what they were in the beginning (30%-140% more!). See all EA Games on Steam here. Read more about it…

  • Steam: New games in store

    Some new titles showed up yesterday on Steam. Including a cool puzzle game called Puzzlegeddon (try the demo here) and Freeze Tag games. While the first one is priced really fair around the world the second one continues with over priced policy in Europe, especially Tier 1 (40% more) and the UK (23% more). We…

  • Euro Gamer prepares it’s own digital distribution store!

    According to Czech Euro Gamer website (translated by Google) they are planning to start a new digital distribution service for Europeans called Get Games. And here’s what they said: Steam’s European competition was officially announced today. People prefer digital distribution before retail versions of games. The increase in popularity of services such as Steam is…

  • Get Tales of Monkey Island Episode 1 for FREE!

    According to LucasArts and Telltale Games today is the International "Talk Like a Pirate Day”. And because of that both companies prepared a cool promotion for gamers around the world! Episode 1 of Tales of Monkey Island is available free, but only for few hours! Full version can be downloaded from the official website at…

  • Weekend Deals (18.09.09)

      Updated: GOG deals updated. Updated: Gamers Gate deal. Updated: GOG updates!

  • Steam: New Lucas Arts games over priced but…

    We asked about it on the official Lucas Arts Twitter account and believe it or not they did respond: See it here: http://twitter.com/lucasartsgames/status/4014989632 [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=”7″] [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

  • Steam Games on Twitter!

    I have no idea how did we miss that but Steam is actually on Twitter. You can follow Steam on Twitter by clicking here. In case you’re wondering this Twitter account is mentioned on the official Steam Facebook account as well so it’s legit.

  • Weekend Deals (11.09.09)

    Here we go! This time with Gamers Gate deal. Update: Impulse deals added.

  • Mini Ninjas on Steam: Nearly 100% more expensive in Europe

    A pretty nice game was just extremely overpriced in Europe reaching nearly 100% difference between USA and Europe. US: $29.99 UK: £29.99 (67% higher) EU: 39,99€ (94% higher)

  • Weekend Deals (28.08.09)

    Here we go: Update: Steam Call of Juarez 2 and Rebellion games added.

  • Steam Forums: The thread won’t die!

    Just wanted to tell you folks that I’ve been reading Steam forums lately. The thread I started around 8 months ago is alive and it’s been really abused by Steam moderators today. So what actually happened? Those lunatics are removing every single post that contains a link to other store(s) than Valve’s. They claim people…

  • Team Fortress Birthday!

    Today is the official birthday of Team Fortress Classic! August 24th is the day when the Team Fortress was released as a Quake total conversion. Today all Team Fortress 2 players wear birthday hats, all gibs turn into birthday presents and any time you hit someone with a weapon, balloons slowly float away out of…

  • Weekend Deals (21.08.09)

    Another set of deals! Update: Added Steam weekend deal. Update: Added Meridian 4 pack and Sega Rally Revo to Direct2Drive deals. Update: Added GOG Ubisoft Action Pack. Update: Added Steam Droplitz deal.

  • Steam: New Batman game 42% more expensive in Europe

    I’ve been following this title since it was announced. Always wanted to play some new Batman game on my PC ;) Anyway, this is absurd! It’s another game on Steam that’s priced around 42% higher than in USA. Steam Unpowered does not recommend buying this game on Steam – be sure to get it in…

  • Exclusive interview on GameTrailers.com

    Valve delivers fresh infusions to its biggest franchises: Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2 and Team Fortress. Gabe Newell mentions the Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group. You can find out a lot about Left 4 Dead 2 and see the new campaign for Left 4 Dead – Crash Course. Gabe also answers a lot…

  • Weekend Deals (14.08.09)

    Check out those deals on Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive and Good Old Games! Update: GOG – Flight Simulators 30% off! Update: Steam – Half-Life weekend deal added!

  • Call of Duty 5: Mid-Week Madness: 50% off

    It seems that Valve is announcing more deals and price reductions nova days days – since they realized that their biggest competitors are putting out deals more often than they do. Like for example World of Goo week deal on Direct2Drive. Looks like a good deal doesn’t it? Think again: US: $49.99 $24.99 UK: £29.99…

  • Steam: “German accounts can only buy games in the German language as gifts.”

    A person with IA-KRaTTe nickname came into our IRC Channel today and told us a really disturbing story. Read this to find out more: “Gifting Company of Heroes to an United States citizen leads to language problems and even after my friend from the USA made a Steam Support ticket, they refuse to change his…

  • Weekend Deals (07.08.09)

    Here we go, another set of deals on Steam, Impulse, Direct2Drive and GOG! Update: Steam weekend deal added! Update: Added very important information. Update: Fixed prices for some Impulse games.

  • Garry Newman on how to stop Steam phishing sites

    The creator of Garry’s Mod has spoken. “There’s been a lot of steam phishing sites being posted on the forums recently. Well it seems a lot, but it’s probably just one or two guys. I was thinking how we could battle this. Could we do something? Blocking users from posting links until they’ve been a…

  • Market share of digital distribution stores!

    As always Rhonin the wizard submited some good news. Market share of the predominant digital distribution stores: STEAM 40% METABOLI +15% DIGITAL RIVER 12% REAL TRYMEDIA +9% DIRECT2DRIVE 9% GAMERSGATE 3.5% Everyone else 11.5% Read all about it here.