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Early Access title Life is Feudal: Your Own has captured the top spot on this week’s Steam best sellers chart. The in-development sandbox game finished ahead of the discounted Valve Complete Pack in second and Wasteland 2 – last week’s winner – in third. Middle Earth: Shadows of Mordor made …
Read More »Shadow of Mordor wants 6GB of video memory for Ultra settings on PC
Planning on maxing out Warner’s Shadow of Mordor on PC? Then you’d best hope you’ve got a very hefty graphics card in your PC. A screen grab of the game’s graphics settings on NeoGaf reveals that those who want to run it at the ‘Ultra’ preset will need a GPU …
Read More »Total War: Attila heading to PC in 2015
There’s a new entry coming to Creative Assembly’s Total War series early next year. As the name suggests, Total War: Attila sees Attila the Hun taking it to the fading Roman Empire. Features such as family and skill tress have been re-introduced to expand upon the established real-time turn-based strategy …
Read More »Steam music player officially launches
Valve has released the Steam Music Player to the general public, allowing Steam users to play MP3 files off of their hard drive within the Steam client and while in-game. According to a new post on Steam’s news section, the service – originally introduced earlier this year in beta – …
Read More »Wasteland 2 reaches $1.5m in sales in four days
Wasteland 2 has generated $1.5m in sales just four days out from release, developer inXile Entertainment has announced. "We are ecstatic that the style of game we love so much has been embraced so well," company founder Brain Fargo said. The studio originally ran a successful Kickstarter campaign that raised …
Read More »Razer opens beta for Synapse data tracking feature
Razer has released an open beta for new data tracking functionality in its Synapse software. Razer Synapse: Stats and Heatmaps allows users to collect data in order to track and share their mouse and keyboard stats, as well as recording how gaming devices interact with their games. Some of the …
Read More »FIFA 15 demo sets EA Sports record
5.5m individuals tried out the demo offering of FIFA 15, EA Sports has announced. EA gathered the figure from those who tried the offering on one or more” platform (including PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One), with the download now representing the most ever played” demo product in …
Read More »Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies open beta launches
Free-to-play Counter-Strike spinoff Counter-Strike Nexon: Zombies is out now in open beta. The game – set to officially launch in October – is the western version of Korea’s Counter-Strike Online 2. As always, player feedback means a great deal to us, and is reflected in our games,” Nexon Europe’s Product …
Read More »UPDATED: YouTubers top Steam Curators list
Prominent YouTubers are proving to be the most popular faces as Steam’s new Curator system rolls out today. As reported earlier, the new Curator system allows users to list their favourite titles on the service. Following others allows Steam to construct a recommended games list according to which games feature …
Read More »Steam now boasts 100m active users
Valve’s PC sales portal Steam has reached another significant milestone. The company says that the service now has 100m active accounts, up from the 75m figure it boasted in January. Furthermore, there are now over 3,700 games available on Steam, with over 1,300 being added in the last nine months …
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