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Valve has announced the addition of non-gaming software projects to its community voting portal Steam Greenlight. Software developers with programs unaffiliated with games can now submit and attempt to get their work approved for distribution on Steam. The move comes just weeks after Valve brought its own software line onto …
Read More »Greenlight adds software projects
Steam community voting portal now set to clear non-gaming sales
Read More »Valve launches software line
Valve has announced the launch of its creative and development focused software, now available on Steam. The first offerings include a desktop photo application, graphics tests for DirectX 10 and 11, a 3D production program, and a painting/drawing package. All our for windows, with a few being Mac compatible too. …
Read More »Games development software arrives on Steam
Valve offering ten per cent discount off all tools for the first week
Read More »Sony lists freshly discounted PS3 Essentials titles
The new super-slim PS3 is to be joined at retail by an invigorated PS3 Essentials range. A wide assortment of first and third party titles will be released at retail for around €19.99 a piece. Many of them will also be available to download from PSN with prices starting at …
Read More »3DS passes 7m in Japan, claims entire software Top Ten
The established Nintendo narrative amongst European journalists seems to be quite negative at the moment, but the story in Japan could hardly be better. The latest Media Create numbers for the region show that Nintendo’s 3DS was once again the best selling hardware of last week, shifting 111,857 units. This …
Read More »Steam expanding digital library with non-games
Creativity and productivity software coming to distribution platform from September 5th
Read More »Non-games head to Steam as digital distribution competition heats up
Valve has added an important weapon to the arsenal supporting its games download service – and it’s non-games. From September 5th the firm will be selling ‘creativity to productivity’ software on the store which has 40m registered users. So that means non-games sold alongside Valve’s own Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 …
Read More »Autodesk adds animation extensions for Maya and 3ds Max
New features to aid artists 'make more sophisticated physical simulations'
Read More »Confusion over European second-hand download ruling
Digital download retailers have called in the lawyers following a shock EU decision that could legitimise second-hand sales in the download space. The ruling followed a dispute between Oracle and UsedSoft. UsedSoft was selling second-hand licences for Oracle software, so Oracle took the firm to the European Court of Justice. …
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