Archive for the tag "steam"
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in Codemasters, PC, Racing, Valve | 1 Comment »
Codemasters has added the PC version of GRID to Steam. It costs $47 in the UK and $60 in America, thanks to the rubbish dollar. We're still waiting for our ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in PC, Piracy, Retail, Valve | No Comments »
Speaking at last night's Steam Cloud announcement event at Valve's US offices, Gabe Newell said Steam itself was a great motivator for people to buy the games they want to ...
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Friday, May 30th, 2008 Posted in Development, PC, Valve | 3 Comments »
Valve's announced a new service called Steam Cloud, a remote saving system that backs up saved games and other data from playing Steam titles.
Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 ...
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Action, Eidos, PC, Shooter, Strategy | 4 Comments »
Eidos has put an Everything Pack on Steam, which includes a truckload of games for $99.99. Apparently, if you bought all this lot separeately, it'd cost you $390. Bargain! Here's ...
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Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in PC, Platformer | 1 Comment »
Speaking on his Destructoid blog, indie developer Luc Bernard has confirmed that arthouse platformer Eternity's Child will be released on Steam next month.
The game was originally supposed to be releasing ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in PC, Valve | 4 Comments »
Very interesting it is too. There are more numbers here about gaming computers than you could ever need. Well, there enough to keep you occupied for the next ten minutes, ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in PC, Valve | No Comments »
According to this GI story, Yahoo! and Microsoft both rejected Steam after Valve pitched the pre-launch concept.
"You know, we went around to Yahoo, Microsoft... and anybody who seemed like a ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 Posted in Internet, Retail, Ubisoft, Valve | 4 Comments »
Here. Valve must be laughing all the way to the bank. Ubisoft announced today that it's bringing 40 games to Steam, a deal that makes it the most prolific on ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in PC, Shooter, Valve | 2 Comments »
Epic's added a good chunk of its entire oeuvre to Steam, including Unreal Gold, Unreal II: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series of games, including Unreal Tournament 3. You ...
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Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 Posted in Action, Atari, PC, RPG, Retail, Valve | No Comments »
Atari has signed up to Steam, the company announced today, and will add Bohemia Interactive's ArmA: Combat Operations and Frontier's RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum to the download service immediately. The ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Posted in 2K, PC, Shooter | 16 Comments »
See here. The 2K shooter has to be worth it at that price if you haven't tried it out already. We just hope you enjoy putting bits of pipe together ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Valve | 5 Comments »
In the latest Steam update, some new names are promised for the service in the near future, although it looks as though we're going to be kept in the dark ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Internet, PC, Valve | No Comments »
So says this. Sounds like games are only the start for the Valve distribution service, as if you hadn't guessed.
"We're looking at more casual games and international games," said Valve's ...
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Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in PC, Valve | No Comments »
So says this. A new beta Steam client is available to test an updated interface and other improvements to Valve's online delivery system. Want to fiddle with a new version ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in PC, Valve | No Comments »
Gabe's laughing all the way to the bank. Valve's announced that Steam now has more than 15 milion user accounts and "realized year-over-year sales growth of 158% through the holiday ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in EA, PC, PS3, Shooter, Xbox 360 | 3 Comments »
Sounds as though Half-Life 2: Episode Three won't be rattling its way across Steam for a while yet.
"We don't know entirely what's happening in the next episode, but we're gonna ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Valve | No Comments »
Valve today made a big addition to Steam, its online content delivery system, with Steamworks, a free set of development tools allowing PC game-makers to integrate function "such as up-to-the-hour ...
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