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The Cult of Psychonauts
Longevity is a rare commodity in the gaming business. A title comes out, it takes up a two-month residency on a store's chart rack or splash page - if it's lucky - and is then put out to pasture in the used section. To the casual consumer, it's often easy to forget a game ever ex
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Latest Indie Royale Boasts Hard Reset, Vertex Dispenser
Indie Royale’s St Patrick’s Day Bundle includes the “old school” FPS Hard Reset, the awesome abstract 3D action puzzle game Vertex Dispenser, as well as Jolly Rover and DLC Quest. The current average is £3.19, with just over four days left. Paying over the average also bags you t
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Take on Helicopters Updated
TAKE ON HELICOPTERS, VERSION 1.05 HIGHLIGHTS ----------------------- * Compatibility with Take On Helicopters: Hinds * Horizontal stabilizers can be configured to move with collective * SACLOS missile support added (manually guided) * Retractable Landing Gear System support added
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Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch Updates Released
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S, HL2:DM) Fixed IP bans not applying to RCO
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Pre-Purchase Now: Yesterday
Yesterday is now available for pre-purchase on Steam! Pre-Purchase and receive a copy of The Next Big Thing to play now! Already own it? Give the extra copy to a friend! Yesterday is a thrilling and dark mystery from the masters of adventure, Pendulo Studios. In New York City, be
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Portal 2 Goes Techno
Valve's Portal 2 was easily one of the most musically enjoyable games of 2011 . Not just for its soundtrack, but for the awesome ways that it implemented music into the background of its levels. Youthful electronic musician BonJob agrees, putting together a very cool techno joint
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You May Never Have Heard of the Braid Creator's Favorite Band
I hadn't, anyway. Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid and the upcoming puzzle-symphony The Witness , is a very cool dude. Chatting with him last week, I had this realization about what he was doing with his upcoming game—the way that his carefully crafted puzzles locked together
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The Haunted: Hells Reach Update Released
Updates to The Haunted: Hells Reach have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: - Fixed Czech localization
Read articleHindsight Is 10.99: Take On Helicopters: Hinds Launches
Bohemia Interactive’s chopper-centric sim was always going to drop in some angry war tech. That’s what they know, and that’s what we love about them. So we’re here to celebrate the addition of the Hind to Take On Helicopters with a fairly warry trailer. I don’t know about you, bu
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Daily Deal - Unstoppable Gorg, 50% off!
Today's Deal: Save 66% off Unstoppable Gorg ! 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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Weekend Deal - Anno 2070 40% off!
This weekend only, save 40% on Anno 2070 ! Build your society of the future, colonize islands, and create sprawling megacities with multitudes of buildings, vehicles, and resources to manage. Engineer production chains such as Robot Factories, Oil Refineries, and Diamond Mines, a
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Obsidian misses New Vegas bonus by slim Metacritic margin
Fallout: New Vegas was pretty well liked by critics and gamers, despite some of its signature open world jank. But it was just barely not well-liked enough to earn the team at Obsidian bonuses, according to creative director Chris Avellone. Joystiq reports that Avellone told a fa
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Last night, Obsidian's Chris Avellone tweeted an interesting detail about his roleplaying game Fallout: New Vegas . " was a straight payment, no royalties," he said in response to a fan question about the game's financial success. "Only a bonus if we got an 85+ on Metacritic, whi
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Risen 2 release date set for April
Pending unscheduled Kraken attacks, the swashbuckling sequel, Risen 2, will hit shores on April 27. The pirate ArrrrPG will have guns, exotic monsters and plenty of sunshine, but there's some serious pedigree behind it. It's made by Piranha Bytes, the chaps behind the Gotchic ser
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Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances Preview: Casual Commandos
This is not Command & Conquer as we know it. In fact, it's not even war as many of us know it. One of the first things that Martin Lohlein, senior producer at Phenomic tells journalists playing the closed beta is that Tiberium Alliances is that he "wanted to give C&C play
Read articleCommand & Conquer Tiberium Alliances enters open beta
Command & Conquer Tiberium Alliances has entered open beta, EA has announced. Tiberium Alliances is a browser-based strategy game developed by German studio Phenomic (BattleForge, Lord of Ulltima). You have to gather resources, strike alliances and, of course, fight. Expect i
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Square Enix trademarks Mini Ninjas: Hiro's Adventure
Also a mini ninja. Square Enix has trademarked the name Mini Ninjas: Hiro's Adventure and registered related website domains such as minininjahirosadventure.com . Siliconera spotted them, but is none the wiser about what they refer to. Mini Ninjas was the friendly cartoon action
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PlayStation trophies unchanged following MS XBLA achievements hike
The number of trophies included in PlayStation Network games will remain unchanged despite Microsoft's decision to increase the achievement count in Xbox Live Arcade titles, Sony has confirmed. As of next month, all Xbox Live Arcade titles will have the option to increase from 20
Read articleWhoah, we Might Get More Mini Ninjas
Square Enix has filed new trademarks in relation to the Mini Ninjas franchise. Which, very quietly, is one of my favourite games of this entire console generation. So this is way more exciting than it should be.
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