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The lucrative tablet PC market will welcome another high-profile competitor later this week – Google. DigiTimes reports that the seven-inch Nexus 7 will be revealed at the Google I/O Conference that begins this Wednesday. In addition, Gizmodo Australia claims to have obtained a set of detailed specs for the device. …
Read More »Valve drops Steam support for Windows XP SP1
There will be no further updates or customer support for Steam users who are running Windows XP SP1, Valve has announced. As of August 31st the company will no longer offer customer care for anyone who has not updated their copy of Windows XP to SP2 (Service Pack 2). This …
Read More »Facebook credits dropped from social network
New monthly subscription system to replace virtual currency
Read More »Valve hires in-house economist
Valve has hired economics professor Yanis Varufakis, who will be helping the games company navigate the labyrinth of digital economies. Varufakis, a native of Athens, has become well known for mixing labyrinths and economics as an influential commenter on the Euro Zone Crisis, and author of "The Globabl Minotaur". It …
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: June 10-16
Valve has announced Steam’s top ten selling titles and products from the past week. Looks like Stardock made the right move finally coming around to the idea of their titles on distributors outside of Impulse (now currently owned by GameStop), as the latest in the Sins of a Solar Empire …
Read More »Verge Games offers in-app charity donations
Dev partners with World Vision to bring livestock to the impoverished
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: June 3-9
Valve has revealed the top ten selling titles on Steam for the first week of June, with Max Payne 3 taking the top spot for the second week in a row. Bohemia’s FPS ArmA 2 kept its grasp on the runner-up position thanks to the continued popularity of the game’s …
Read More »E3 2012: Crytek switches to F2P, Premium DLC "milking gamers to death"
Crysis developer Crytek has apparently claimed that it is to become a free-to-play only studio. Speaking to Videogamer.com, CEO Cevat Yerli said that the growing DLC and premium services” model is milking customers to death”. The transition will come once the developer has completed its current contracts for traditional boxed …
Read More »E3 2012: Dead Island Riptide announced
Deep Silver has announced Dead Island Riptide, a new entry following up on the publisher’s zombie horror title. Though not appearing to be a true sequel to Dead Island, Riptide will be its own standalone affair. The game is currently in development by Techland for consoles and PC, beyond that …
Read More »E3 2012: OnLive claims "millions" of users, 100% uptime since launch
OnLive has claimed that it has millions of subscribers worldwide”, but has once again decided not to reveal the number of gamers paying to use its service. OnLive went live at E3 2010 with just 19 games in its library on only PCs and Macs over Ethernet,” an official statement …
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