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Popular new release pulled from Steam after internal strife at developers Neuronhaze
Read More »Valve facing $3m fine for breaking Australian consumer law
Company would prefer $250,000 fine, of course.
Read More »Valve release Steam’s Discovery Update 2.0
New rules insisting screenshots for Steam pages will need to be real screenshots from the publicly available version of their game now in place
Read More »Call of Duty’s Steam numbers are struggling
It isn’t only Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare’s boxed sales numbers that are lagging. Steam tracking site GitHyp reveals that the latest installment in the FPS series peaked at just 15,280 players during its launch weekend. That made it only the 27th most played game on Steam in the period. …
Read More »Valve has redesigned the Steam Store front page
Shopping on Steam has been given a facelift thanks to what Steam is calling ‘The Discovery Update 2.0′. On the face of it things don’t appear wildly different. Titles are presented slightly differently, with screenshots that enlarge when rolled over, while the sidebar provides faster and clearer access to a …
Read More »Valve cracks down on Steam ‘bullshots’
"We haven’t been super crisp on guidelines for screenshots in the past, so we’d like to take this opportunity to clarify some rules in this space,"
Read More »Valve is banning ‘bullshots’ from Steam store
Developers will soon be prevented from using anything other than in-game shots in a title’s Steam Store carousel. Listings will often use either promotional art or assets created during development. However, with No Man’s Sky attracting such fierce criticism for the difference between its some of its pre-release material and …
Read More »Steam runs out of Splinter Cell: Blacklist keys during sale
Online distribution service Steam ran out of keys for Splinter Cell: Blacklist during a sale over the weekend. This weekend saw the entire Splinter Cell franchise go on sale at 75% off on Steam. This included the most recent entry in the franchise, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which saw a significant …
Read More »Kongregate moves to PC publishing with first Steam release
The company's first title is Slashy Hero by GentleBros and its available now.
Read More »Japanese schoolgirl game has £68 DLC that lets you see through people’s clothes
Gal*Gun: Double Peace, a Japanese on rails shooter that sees you fend off school girls, has a 67.99 microtransaction that gives you the ability to see through the girl’s clothes. As spotted by Eurogamer, the microtransaction adds the Pheromone Z item to the in game store. Once you equip this …
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