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Read More »Steam update to showcase user-generated content
Valve will present the community's best with new Hub pages
Read More »Steam top ten sellers chart: August 5-11
Valve has announced Steam’s top selling titles for the past week, revealing a new contender with an old face has entered the charts in a big way. Skyrim, ArmA II/DayZ, and Borderlands 2 all make their marks, but ultimately Counter Strike: Global Offensive has emerged the winner. Fueled by pre-orders …
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 »Steam top ten sellers chart: July 28 – August 4
Valve has revealed Steam’s top selling titles for the past week, with ArmA II and its DayZ mod at last relenting in the face of two notable franchises. Bohemia’s 2009 title took a backseat to both pre-orders for Borderlands 2 in the runner-up spot, and Skyrim’s Dawnguard add-on. The DLC …
Read More »Rise of the Triad revival revealed
A Rise of the Triad reboot is in the works for PC, Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment have announced. A gameplay video shown at QuakeCon earlier today took the lid off the title, with a playable build of the title available at the event for attendees to check out. Like …
Read More »Origin doubles userbase to 21 million in 3 months
57 independent developers signed up to bring content to online platform
Read More »Valve alters Steam T&Cs to counter lawsuit threat
An alteration has been added the Steam’s terms and conditions that Valve hopes will help combat the threat of consumer lawsuits. Sony introduced a similar change to its PlayStation Network back in September (in the wake of 2011’s PSN security outage) and was slaughtered by the internet games collective. It …
Read More »Valve’s Linux move labelled unethical
Mainstream exposure for open operating system a mixed bag, says GNU founder Richard Stallman
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