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Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

Here’s the top selling Steam games from May 13-19

It's amazing what a mod can to for the sales of a game, innit? Yeah, I'm talking about the Day-Z mod for Arma 2, which is a three year old game. Guess what? It has topped the Steam sales chart for the... Read More

Arcen Games: We would not have been able to stay in business without Steam

Arcen Games: We would not have been able to stay in business without Steam

Steam is a saviour for Indie developers and gives them a platform to showcase their content, and for some of them, it can be the sole reason why they stay in the business. Arcen Games, who created A... Read More

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” Sees 1.3 million Downloads, Dota 2 Championships 2012 Detailed

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” Sees 1.3 million Downloads, Dota 2 Championships 2012 Detailed

Valve have announced details for The International Dota 2 Championships 2012. The International was launched last year in Cologne, Germany during Gamescom with 16 of the most elite Dota teams co... Read More

Report: Gamestop to offer Steam vouchers

Report: Gamestop to offer Steam vouchers

PSN has it; XBL has it, so why not Steam? Yes, I am talking about vouchers so that people do not have to input their Credit Card details on the digital distribution service. Kotaku has reported tha... Read More

Valve: Portal 2 has sold 4 million units on consoles and PC

Valve: Portal 2 has sold 4 million units on consoles and PC

Valve has updated the sales figures for Portal 2 and the game has sold 4 million worldwide on the consoles and PC. The game was released last year and has been met with critical praise, and is sitt... Read More

The Walking Dead – Episode 1 PC Review

The Walking Dead – Episode 1 PC Review

The Walking Dead is a pretty popular TV series, and Telltale Games have created a video game adaptation of it, and I have to say, they succeeded pretty well. If you are looking forward for some inte... Read More

Risen 2: Dark Waters Review

Risen 2: Dark Waters Review

I had a tough time getting Risen 2 to work on Steam, and when I finally managed to do that, the game was simply unplayable and running at 10 fps. Of course, my PC is not at fault here, otherwise I wou... Read More

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will be available for PC and Mac on May 8th

Portal 2 DLC “Perpetual Testing Initiative” will be available for PC and Mac on May 8th

Valve has announced that Portal 2 DLC titled "Perpetual Testing Initiative" will be available for the PC and Mac on May 8th. Some footage will be shown tonight on GTTV, so stay tuned for that as wel... Read More

Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”

Gabe Newell: DOTA 2 is going to be free-to-play, “it’ll have some twists”

Gabe Newell denied meeting Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple in a recent podcast with Seven Day Cooldown, but that's not all he said. He also mentioned that DOTA 2 will be free-to-play, but with a twist.... Read More

Tim Cook didn’t visit Valve after all

Tim Cook didn’t visit Valve after all

Earlier we had reported that Tim Cook, the Apple CEO had visited Valve to lay out plans for world domination, and other stuff. That's untrue and has been denied by Gabe Newell himself on Seven Da... Read More

Strategy First announces that Deep Black Reloaded Is Available On Steam

Strategy First announces that Deep Black Reloaded Is Available On Steam

[HTML1] Featuring over 20 Steam Achievements and Razer Hydra Full Motion Control in Real 3D. April.18, 2012 to April.25, 2012 receive a 20% discount off the $29.99 price. “We are excited abou... Read More

6.5 million bullets in a Counter Strike map visualized

6.5 million bullets in a Counter Strike map visualized

What you see below is a heat map. So what is it exactly? In this case, Valve has created this to study the data obtained from Counter Strike: Global Offensive beta. There have been 6.5 million bull... Read More

Valve is working on Wearable Computing

Valve is working on Wearable Computing

Valve is working on wearable computing, Michael Abrash wrote in a blog post. He is in charge of R&D products at Valve and wants more people to join Valve to support the project. "By ‘wearable... Read More

Valve hiring to produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware

Valve hiring to produce new types of input, output, and platform hardware

Okay, so Valve has begun hiring a bunch of people, and the thing that caught our eye was that they wanted an electronics engineer to join their R&D team. They specifically mention in the recru... Read More

Anna’s First New Screens Are Damn Awesome

Anna’s First New Screens Are Damn Awesome

Check out these new screenshots from Anna. [gallery link="file"]Read More

Update incoming for Payday: The Hiest

Update incoming for Payday: The Hiest

Sony and Overkill have announced that they will be releasing a new game update for their title, Payday: The Heist. Key features of this game update include: Masks of Disguise: Feeling statel... Read More

The Price is Right: Why Competition and Second Hand Sales Are Necessary

The Price is Right: Why Competition and Second Hand Sales Are Necessary

If you're reading this, the likelihood is that you play games. Whether you appreciate gaming as nothing more than a hobby or wax lyrical about the artistic achievements of your favourite franchise, it... Read More

Piranha Bytes on Risen 2- “We drew inspiration from classics like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean”

Piranha Bytes on Risen 2- “We drew inspiration from classics like Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean”

Björn Pankratz, Project Director at Piranha Bytes says that Risen 2's pirate setting drew plenty of inspiration from "classics" like Monkey Island, Treasure Island and Pirates of the Caribbean. "N... Read More

Worms creator Andy Davidson Returns To Team 17

Worms creator Andy Davidson Returns To Team 17

The original Worms creator, Andy Davidson has returned to Team 17. “I left Team17 feeling I hadn’t finished what I wanted to achieve, but for professional reasons I knew I had to walk awayâ... Read More

Anna Is One Horror Game That You Should Keep Your Eye On

Anna Is One Horror Game That You Should Keep Your Eye On

Ever played Amnesia: The Dark Descent? Enjoyed it? Got scared? We certainly did. We came across a game which will make any Amnesia jump with joy (or fear!). The game we are talking about is Anna, de... Read More