Valve has sent word that they have released Left 4 Dead on the Mac. Mac gamers are now able to download the game through Steam. Valve also confirmed that they have a Halloween sale going down on Steam right now too. They seem to think that it features “savings up to 75% off select titles”.
Valve has released a Halloween-themed update for Team Fortress 2. The update adds the first ever NPC in Team Fortress: the Headless Horsemann. The Horsemann is a randomly generated boss monster and appears in Mann Manor, a new attack/defend map scattered with exploding pumpkins. The update also adds new achievements, a Halloween department of the Mann Co store, and new community items from 10 new contributors. There are probably more Read More ...
EA has confirmed that DeathSpank and Shank have been released on the PC. They both cost £9.99 on Steam, and there’s a demo of Shank available to play around with. DeathSpank is an action RPG, developed by Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island fame and his merry men. Shank is a platform game with loads of blood.
Valve and Activision have announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops will be coming to Steam’s PC contingent. The game is now available for pre-purchase on the service. Those that pre-purchase it will be able to start playing immediately upon the game’s November 9th release. The game also uses Steamworks, so expect to see auto-updating, achievements and clever cloud things. Steamworks will be a part of both the digital and Read More ...
Valve has today announced that Steam has achieved new account growth of 178% over the past 12 months and sales growth of over 200%. Over 200 Steamworks games have been shipped so far. The total number of active accounts now totals over 30 million with over 1200 games available to download. Peak simultaneous player numbers have also increased to over three million, with over six million unique gamers accessing Steam Read More ...
SI Games has announced that they will be releasing two demos for Football Manager 2011 this week. The first will be released on Steam on Thursday, with the second touching down for everyone on Friday. The Steam demo is the “strawberry” release, which has all languages and 12 leagues (England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Argentina and Chile). The other demo is the “vanilla” release, which Read More ...
2K Games has confirmed that those who buy or have brought Borderlands through Steam will get a demo key for Duke Nukem Forever. Steam Borderlands owners will get access to the DNF demo at the same time as Borderlands GOTY owners. Gearbox still hasn’t slapped a specific date on the demo, but expect it in 2011 before the full game’s release.
Valve has released a new update for Team Fortress 2. The update adds a new in-game marketplace to buy/sell/trade goods with Valve and the community. Community item contributors will get paid based on the sales of their items. The company has put a FAQ up online to deal with some of your questions about it, and they seem to cover a broad selection of topics for TF2 fanatics. The update Read More ...
The administrators handling Realtime Worlds will not be offering refunds to players who bought copies and subscriptions of APB. The MMO is now closed, after just two and a half months online. Steam also isn’t giving out refunds either. Administrator Begbies Traynor said: “Customers should revert to the entity from which they bought the game in respect of their entitlement to any refund.” Valve played against this statement by saying Read More ...
A demo for Civilization V is available to download right now on Steam (PC). The game will be released this Friday, and it seems to be picking up hype across the internet thanks to favourable reviews. One of our PC guys will probably have a review in the pipeline if all goes to plan, so if that comes to fruition we’ll let you know.
Team17 has slapped a September 22nd release date for Alien Breed 2: Assault. It will be released on the XBLA and Steam. Assault will once again make players control Chief Engineer Conrad aboard the dying Leopold ship as he fights for survival. Apparently his only hope now is to reignite the alien spacecraft’s engines. The game has a new Survivor mode to go alongside the new single-player campaign, as well Read More ...
Valve has announced a Steam Wallet system for Steam. Gamers will be able to fill it with a bit of real-money funds in small lumps: £4, £8, £18, £35 and £70. Valve will be staying with real currency and won’t be entertaining the notion of a “Steam Points” system. The Steam Wallet funds can be bought with prepaid cards and promotional codes as well as with credit cards.
Some kind folk have uploaded a 9 minute long gameplay video of Portal 2′s co-op mode from PAX. It shows off some interesting portal mechanics and the ability to tag your environment to tell your co-op partner where you would like a portal. Have a watch:
Ubisoft has announced Bloody Good Time for the Xbox Live Arcade and Steam (PC). The game is a multiplayer shooter running on Valve’s Source engine. Essentially, the Bloody Good Time puts players on a Hollywood set and lets them decide what they want to do. It supports up to eight players and features lots of weird and wacky weapons like frying pans and explosive remote-controlled rats amongst usual gun fare. Read More ...
OneBigGame have today announced that Chime (developed by Zoe Mode) will be released on Steam for the PC at the “end of this summer”. A proper date hasn’t been confirmed yet. The game was released on the Xbox Live Arcade earlier this year, and 100% of proceeds from that (between February 1st and June 1st) went to OneBigGame. 5% of the purchase price of royalties for the PC version will Read More ...
