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Steam’s video library expands to include software tutorial videos

Valve has introduced a series of software tutorial videos to Steam’s library. The tutorials were created by community members of the various software offerings. The first batch includes nine videos covering instruction for asset creation in Blender, introduction to 3D prop modeling and design, texturing a sci-fi gun in Substance …

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Batman: Arkham Knight PC re-release arrives this week

The PC edition of Batman: Arkham Knight will be relisted for sale on Steam later this week, Warner Bros has announced. The publisher posted the news on the game’s Steam community hub, stating it will re-release on October 28th. The game was removed from from Valve’s service in June, following …

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Total War: Warhammer is coming to PC next April

Tabletop gamers and wannabe army commanders rejoice: Total War: Warhammer has a release date. The mash-up of Games Workshop’s iconic tabletop miniatures universe and Creative Assembly’s historical strategy franchise will land on PC screens April 28th, 2016. As previously revealed, the core game will include four races: Orks, Dwarves, Empire …

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Steam top ten: October 11-17

Pre-orders for Fallout 4 have vaulted the upcoming game to number one on Steam’s latest weekly top ten sellers chart. There’s a fair chance that’s where Fallout 4 will stay, with the game coming out in less than a month. That said, this week’s runner-up Counter-Strike: Global Offensive seems to …

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Nexon sells off its NCSoft shares

Nexon has sold off its 15 per cent stake in South Korea publisher NCSoft. As reported byBusiness Korea, sales of the shares were worth $533.7m in cash. During the sell-off, NCSoft CEO Kim Taek-jin increased his stake in the companyfrom ten per centto 12 per cent by acquiring 440,000 shares. …

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Major Arsenal stakeholder invests $100m in Russian eSports community

Russian eSports organisation Virtus.pro has received investment that could total over $100m from a company owned by one of Arsenal’s controlling figures. Virtus is Russia’s largest eSports group, organising tournaments, running a vast network of recording studios and hosting an eSports community that has over 7.6m subscribers. Its content was …

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Defiance game will live on, despite death of TV series

The tie-in Defiance MMO will continue ‘exactly as before’, the CEO of Trion Worlds has pledged, following the cancellation of its TV counterpart. The sci-fi show has been dropped by US network Syfy after three seasons, having premiered in April 2013 – two weeks after developer Trion Worlds’ interconnecting MMO …

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Players banned for life as another match-fixing scandal rocks Korean StarCraft

Twelve people have been indicted by Korean authorities for match-fixing in StarCraft 2, including two pro players and head coach of PRIME, Park "Gerrard" Wae-Sik. Choi "YoDa" Byeon-Heon (pictured) and Choi "BBoongBBoong" Jong-Hyuk (AKA B4) have been handed lifetime bans by the Korean e-Sports Association (KeSPA) and arrested by police. …

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Valve pulling Linux games from Steam that fail to meet SteamOS standards – report

Valve has removed its SteamOS icon from a batch of Linux-compatible games on Steam, which has reportedly resulted in Linux players no longer having the option to download said titles. A Gaming on Linux piece states Valve is removing the linux-based SteamOS icon from Linux releases that don’t work perfectly …

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