Steamy Mods

After the brief annoucement earlier, Source Mods are finally available on Steam. Full details below:

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Devil May Cry 4 Cries Over Piracy

You may kick evil ass in DMC games, but it seems like sales are kicking DMC4’s ass as well. The game is doing not-so-well in sales as told by Capcom themselves. DMC4 has been pirated like hell.

I’m not sure about how Capcom in general feels but It’s not doing as well as I would like in the US at retail. It’s such a good version and it really deserves better sales. I know it’s getting pirated to hell and back (it was up on torrents literally the day it shipped).

I certainly have pushed for digital distribution on the title (globally, I’m responsible for all DD deals) but Capcom Japan so far has not allowed it.

Fallout 3 Banned In Australia

Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification board has banned Fallout 3 because of morphine. No, seriously.

The game features the use of Morphine as a stimulant and this is allowed only in case of 18+ titles. The problem is that games in Australia can only be classified 15+ and this rating does not allow such features.

Steam Gets Erected with GameCock

Valve’s ever increase Steam titles library will now feature games from Gamecock Media Group. Valve and Gamecock have tied up to provide games such as Legendary, Insecticide, Stronghold: Crusade on Steam.

Gamecock Media Group and Valve today announced an agreement to launch Gamecock titles on Steam. The first Gamecock titles available on Steam will be Firefly Studios’ Stronghold Crusader Extreme and Insecticide Part 1.

Additional Gamecock titles - including Insecticide Parts 2, Velvet Assassin, and Legendary - will be made available via Steam later this year.

Fallout 3 Developer Slams Diablo III’s Design

While everyone is gung-ho about Diablo III, Ashley Cheng, producer of Fallout 3 has criticised the game design and called it “conservative”.

I must say I am disappointed that Blizzard has stayed on the conservative side in terms of design with their updates to Diablo and Starcraft. Diablo will be interesting since World of Warcraft has a lot of Diablo-like qualities. I have no doubt, however, that they will be incredibly fun, addictive and polished games. Blizzard is the top of the class when it comes to game development - nobody does it better.

Oh no he didn’t!

Steam Client Update

Another update for Valve’s Steam client.

Steam Client

• Fixed input coordinates being off for the overlay in full screen OpenGL games on the secondary monitor
• Fixed possible game overlay crash
• Fixed incorrect reporting of app metadata

Now On Steam - Race Driver: GRID

Codemasters’s latest racing title; GRID is now available via Steam. GRID can be purchased for $39.95 and requires 12.5GB HDD space.

GRID — a new racing title from Codemasters, creators of the Colin McRae racing game series — is now available via Steam. Available to PC gamers around the world, GRID is constructed upon the next generation of the technology that powered recent Colin McRae games. Offering multiple racing modes, cars, and tracks, GRID is now available for purchase.

Valve’s Steam to get New Features, Dubbed Steam Cloud

At the recent press event, Valve has revealed plans to add lots of new and exciting features to Steam over the upcoming months. One of the most striking features is dubbed Steam Cloud; A feature that lets users access their save games/game generated data from anywhere using Steam.

All of the data will be transferred to Steam’s back-end once users connect to the service.

Steam Cloud will be rolled out first in existing Valve titles Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Counter-Strike will soon support the feature, and the upcoming Left4Dead will ship with it.

More additions include:

• Deathcam Screenshots for Team Fortress 2
• Recorded Demo files

Near future additions:

• Auto-updating
• System Requirements checker
• Community Calender function
• Official game communities
• Localized game pricing
• Shopping Cart
• More payment methods
• and more.

Full Steam ahead, indeed.

Steam Client Update

After the BETA, final version of Valve’s Steam client has been released. Features include:

Steam Client

• Enabled ClearType fonts if they are enabled in Windows
• Improved in-game status and play time tracking for games with launcher apps
• Improved in-game overlay input handling in a variety of games that previously did not capture or block keyboard input correctly
• Added D3D10 support to the in-game overlay
• Made voice chat requests ignored if you’ve blocked communications from the caller
• Fixed the original Half-Life not getting to 100% complete downloading when it should
• Improved server selection logic for Friends and VAC server connections
• Improved Steam network connectivity in the face of dropped UDP packets
• Fixed the overlay not recognizing the Tab key in some games (breaking the default hot-key)
• Improved Friends duplicate name collision detection

To apply the update, restart your Steam client.

Postal 2: Share The Pain Full Free Multiplayer

 

Running With Scissors, the developers of Postal games franchise, have released Postal 2: Share The Pain’s multiplayer counterpart as a free addon. The multiplayer features 14 multiplayer maps, 25 playable characters, 11 crazy weapons and 4 different gametypes. The game weighs 597MB can be downloaded from. Read more

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