It has been confirmed that Valve is working on a new Counter Strike game and it will be announced today! The new Counter Strike will be called: Global Offensive. There will also be new weapons, gernades and modes. The matches are apparently 5v5 and designed for the eSport scene. Im so looking forward to this [...]
Valve’s Chet Faliszek has been talking about the extended length of Portal 2. “We were constantly testing the pacing to make sure that it felt right, that it was never too short or too long,” he said.
This time a much larger trailer for a game that really doesn’t need an introduction… you monster!
Ah Co-op Portal. Nothing breaks up freindships faster than having to work together but then again this is Portal we’re talking about so it’s probably worth losing a few freinds over. It’s only a small teaser really but it gives us a little peak of what to expect out of Co-op mode. I suggest you [...]
Rather unsurprisingly the recent Portal 2 trailer has caused much excitement among the gaming community, of course the new gaming elements have much to do with it but it would be remiss of me to say that it didnt have anything to do with the featured personality core, the bumbling, british personality core Wheatley. Recently there has been division about [...]
You’ve got to love the Valve way of doing things. Find some developers with a unique idea, hire them then implement their ideas into your games. Genius and terribly honest as well. Portal 2 is looking fantastic, which doesn’t come as a surprise… take a look for yourself.
Valve has launched Team Fortress 2 for Mac via Steam. Team Fortress 2 is an extremely popular team-based, multiplayer first person shooter and Valve is releasing the game with the aim of boosting its subscriptions on Apple Mac’s. Valve was offering Team Fortress 2 for free, however that offer has now ended and its now [...]
Always nice to know they’re still vigilante. Half-Life 2 -Fixed crash due to long hud hint messages, seen when playing in French -Fixed Lambda logo at end of credits being cut off (Mac) -Added pre-caching of GLSL shaders on game launch to prevent hitching in game (Mac) -Performance improvements when using anti-aliasing on ATI GPU’s Half-Life [...]
The first batch of downloadable Sega Genesis games for the PC has hit Steam. The Sega Genesis games will cost $2.99 per game and you can find games like Ecco the Dolphin, Sonic 3D Blast and Vectorman. All of these games are legitamate, thus no need to worry about all the legal issues surrounding emulation. [...]
It is official. It was confirmed this Monday that Valve will bring its on-line distribution service, Steam, and titles from its large library of games to the Mac this April, including valve titles like Left 4 Dead and the upcoming Portal 2, as well as games from other publishers to Apple computers for the very [...]
Set 100 years after the first game, Portal 2 has Chell awake to find herself in the wreckage of Aperture with more Portal based puzzles to get through new paint mechanics and a multiplayer mode. You have to have some sort of serious brain injury not to be excited about this sequal so to tide you [...]
Epic Games and Valve Software have entered into an agreement to bring Valve’s Steamworks service to all licensees of Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. Licensees of the industry leading games engine will now be able to fully take advantage of all game features and services in Steam, including: product key authentication, copy protection, auto-updating, social networking, [...]
Metro 2033 is now available to pre-load from Steam, meaning that you’ll essentially have the entire full game sitting on your PC waiting to be played. The problem is that you’ll still be doing the waiting as you can’t play it until release. Make sure if you have pre-ordered the title that you do set [...]
So the cat is out of the bag. Steam is coming to Mac. Let that sink in. Has it? Gamers on the Mac have always been the unwanted step-children of the gaming community. Some claim that if you’re a gamer you need a PC, and while mobile devices are changing the face of gaming on [...]
Ubisoft has announced it will launch the public beta for upcoming RTS RUSE via Steam on March 9th. The tabletop themed war-game will be open to everyone with a Steam account and follows on from a VIP beta in December. “Public Beta will be available to everyone on Steam on March 9th!” commented Aymeric Evennou, [...]
Valve Software the creators of Steam, Half-Life, Team Fortress 2 and more, have been reported to be bringing their Steam platform to a Mac operating system near you. Currently Steam is only available on Windows operating systems, but it seems like Mac fanboys will soon be getting access. Hope might be on the horizon, however, [...]
Valve have announced that a new version of the Steam client is available in an optional public beta. All current Steam users can access the beta through the settings>Beta Participation>UI Update menus. Anyone without Steam can download the current client for free and then follow the above steps. Conveniently, if you want a run-down of [...]
