Runespell: Overture Steam page live in Coming soon section of Steam
The Runespell: Overture Steam page has been added to the Coming Soon section on Steam.
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Chris Taylor: Steam’s dominance will ‘shift’ in the next five years
When I got the chance to interview Chris Taylor recently, I asked him what he thought of Steam. Then, off his blank look, I asked specifically how he felt about its dominance of the digital distribution market for PC games. Chris designed two of the world's cleverest strategy gam
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Futuremark Tease Three Games, Maybe
Futuremark Games Studio, whose last outing was the well-received by largely unplayed Shattered Horizon , have announced that they are making three new MYSTERY games. They tell us: “you can tag this under PC, XBLA and iOS. We will leave it to your readers to guess which platforms
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Just Cause 2 video maps every in-game death in one haunting landscape
11.3 million people died colliding with objects or the ground in Just Cause 2. If you map them all in a spatial area to scale with the Just Cause 2 world map, then you get the video above, a beautiful and strangely poignant ghostly landscape made up of the terminus points of mill
Read articleDeathmapping: Just Cause 2′s 11m Casualties
This is extraordinary – a cartographic depiction of player deaths in Just Cause 2, creating a beauteous terrain map composed only of light-points. Each point represents one of 11 million fatalities caused by impact with terrain or objects. It’s a god’s-eye view of gaming. (more…)
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Battlefield 3 art shows Gulf of Oman and Sharqi maps
The Gulf of Oman and Sharqi Peninsula maps get the artistic treatment over on the Battlefield 3 blog. The pictures follow on from previous images of Wake Island and Back to Karkand. All four of these maps make up the Back to Karkand map pack, which is free with Battlefield 3 pre-
Read articleEleven Million Deaths Have Never Looked so Beautiful
Here are the deaths of eleven million Just Cause 2 games, caused by bodies smashing into solid ground, visualised on a map from the heavens. Please, watch it. Deathmapping: Just Cause 2′s 11m Casualties
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Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes Update Released
Updates to Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Updates Correct shadows in the forward rendering system (deactivate quality renderer for faster performance) Con
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Secret of the Magic Crystals Updated
Secret of the Magic Crystals MAY 2011 Release Note: - Steam Achievements added - Save game now save to multiple slots and to files (helpful for transfer and backup) - Autosave - Language selection screen only shown at first start (can be reached from menu afterwards) - Performanc
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New Release - Total War: SHOGUN 2 "Ikko Ikki" Clan Pack
Total War: SHOGUN 2 - The "Ikko Ikki" Clan Pack downloadable content is now available on Steam. The Ikko Ikki Clan pack unlocks the iconic Buddhist rebel faction for single and multiplayer campaign modes as well as multiplayer battles. The content also adds a brand new agent type
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Dawn of War II: Retribution Update Released
Updates to Dawn of War II: Retribution have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Updates Removed kick voting from any circumstance where there are only 2 human players in a game Added Inscribed Co
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Daily Deal - Evil Genius 50% Off!
Today's Deal: Save 50% off Evil Genius ! Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are!
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New Release: iBomber Defense
iBomber Defense is now available on Steam and 10% off until June 2nd 9AM PST! iBomber Defense combines classic tower defense gameplay with intense action and strategy. Keep enemies at bay all over the world using a variety of weapons and tactics, from rattling Machine guns, explo
Read articleChris Taylor on why PC gaming is bigger than ever
I spoke to Chris Taylor recently, and asked him how he feels about the state of PC gaming. 'Good' would be an understatement. Chris designed two of the world’s cleverest strategy games: Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander. More recently, he and his company Gas Powered Games
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The Slow, Strange Death Of The Demo
I miss demos. I miss them so much. I wouldn’t be here, writing these words, if it weren’t for demos: how else could a sport-fearing, skinny young misery with only the slightest pittance for pocketmoney have found his way into playing video games? Once, my bedroom was littered wit
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Into The Pixel 2011 collects incredible works of gaming art
Concept art is often beautiful, but even with a growing number of art books being bundled with collector's editions, it's just as often work that will never be seen by anyone outside of a game's development team. The Into The Pixel collection tries to change that. Organised by th
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What an Excellent Music Choice for Hunted: The Demon Forge's Launch Trailer
Filter's gloomy rendition of "Happy Together" sets the perfect tone for the May 31 launch of inXile's co-op focused dungeon romp Hunted: The Demon's Forge .
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Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition system requirements and DRM detailed
Capcom have detailed lots of PC-centric Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition info on their official blog. Aside from the anticipated new content (14 new characters, new stages, replay modes and character rebalancing), PC is getting loads of exclusive features - some of which I
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