Electronic Arts might not strike you as the humble type, but the publisher’s eight-PC-game pay-what-you-want Humble Origin Bundle (opens in new tab) may be the humblest of them all; EA isn’t taking any cash from the pack, and is instead allocating its share to the pledger’s choice of five charities. …
Read More »Valve announces Steam Greenlight, lets users choose which indies get on Steam
Valve has announced a new initiative within Steam that will allow the users themselves to select which independent games are released on Steam. Being showcased on Steam can mean a huge boost for some indie games, and competition can be fierce.Steam Greenlight (opens in new tab)gives this power to the …
Read More »Gabe: Origin still playing catchup, Half-Life 3 seeing “twists and turns”
Valve’s Gabe Newell spoke out recently on topics dear to fans of the company. The Steam impresario appeared on the premiere episode of new podcast Seven Day cooldown (opens in new tab) (via Gamasutra (opens in new tab), Develop (opens in new tab)) to give his thoughts about EA’s would-be …
Read More »Dungeon Defenders gets Portal gun and Team Fortress 2 goodies
Trendy Entertainment’s newest title Dungeon Defenders has got a sweet package thanks to some help from Valve. By pre-ordering the toon shaded tower defense game on Steam, you’ll get an Aperture Science’s portal device for the huntress hero class and four Team Fortress 2 familiars to assist your team. What’s …
Read More »New Portal 2 trailer defies cultural stereotypes, is funny, German
What’s that you say? The whole thing’s in German? Ah. Oh well, it’s still bloody funny. We can just about work out what’s going on, and besides, it has robots getting hurt and everything. I think the general gist is that humans have turned out to be too untrustworthy to …
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