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The Steam Winter Sale is now underway, featuring offers on more than 2,000 games starting last night through to 3rdJanuary. Like all Steam sales, new PC games will go on discount each day, offering massive savings on indie and triple-A games. New deals are added daily at 11:30 pm IST. …
Read More »Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance receives PC date, pre-orders open on Steam
Konami has announced the PC release of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is set to arrive next month. The publisher confirms the title will see its PC launch on January 9th. The PC version will be sold exclusively on Steam, with the distributor already offering a pre-order option – as well …
Read More »Measuring and Analysing Your Apps with Intel Software Development Assistant
Intel Developer Blog: Softtalkblog looks at methods for improving energy performance in your apps
Read More »DayZ sells 172,500 copies in one day
Standalone zombie game continues to rack up downloads on Steam Early Access
Read More »Star Wars F2P shooter reporting in
Disney has announced its latest Star Wars game – a free-to-play space combat title by the name of Attack Squadrons. The title sees players duking it out in battles with up to 16 players. There are three modes of play: Free For All, Team Dogfight and Base Defense. Gamers can …
Read More »DayZ sells 172,500 copies in first 24 hours
DayZ has had rather impressive sales in its first day on Steam. The ultra-realistic zombie title sold 172, 500 copies in its first 24 hours, and saw142,403 players online. This figure was announced by game developer Bohemia’s CEO Mark Spanel via his own blog. In its first 12 hours, the …
Read More »Standalone DayZ finally arrives on Steam
The initial pre-release version of DayZ is now available to purchase and play as an Early Access title on Steam. Though publicly available, Bohemia stresses that the standalone version of Dean Hall’s hit Arma 2 mod is still very much a work in progress. "Be aware that our Early Access …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: December 8-14
Indie Starbound maintained control over the top spot in this week’s Steam top ten sellers, beating out chart newcomer Rust. Both are being sold in pre-release form via Steam’s Early Access program. Other Early Access titles leaving their mark this time around include Wasteland 2 in fourth, and 7 Days …
Read More »75m registered and 1m concurrent players for World of Tanks
Wargaming’s World of Tanks has surpassed 75m registered players. The news comes after the developer claimed in June that its free-to-play MMO had 60m registered users. This means that since then, the game has attracted 2.5m players on average every month. During 2013, the popular MMO at one point peaked …
Read More »MLG viewers watched 54m hours of video content in 2013
Major League Gaming audiences watched more than 54m hours of MLG-produced video content in 2013, the organization has announced. According to MLG, the figure represents a 262 per cent increase from 2012 and a whopping 1,557 per cent growth from 2010’s total. "MLG’s 1,557 percent growth in live video consumption …
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