Posts Tagged "Steam"

It's confirmed, Steam and Source games are coming to the Mac. I wonder if the purchases you made on an account on Windows carry over to the Mac port as well. For Valve games I'd assume so, but I don't know what other developers will eventually plan.

Read more...

Now I just want an iPhone Steam Community app so I can chat with my friends from my phone.


It's nearly a certainty now.

Rock Paper Shotgun wrote:Or, and I admit this is so unlikely that even writing it makes me sound like an insane fantasist, is Mac Steam going to include a wrapper/virtualisation tech that enables most Windows games to be played on OSX, a la Crossover or Parallels Desktop? Doubtful, but God only knows what this actually entails. Whichever, my immediate concern, because I’m a selfish little snot, is whether Win-Steam and Mac-Steam accounts will be twinned – I own a Mac as well as PC. I want access to my stuff on both.

Read Original Article

The other five images found throughout the internet are after the break.

Read more...

I can't take credit for this, most of the work was done by other skinner TDD and Savage Alien. I just took what I liked about their skins and merged them into my own.

Just extract to your Steam/skin/ directory. A file in the Public/ folder is replaced for the addition of new menu items at the top.

The Skin

Read more...

Everyone go opt into the new Steam UI beta right now. It's fucking sexy as hell. It now uses Webkit instead of IE so things will be much more stable and faster overall. Woo!

If you've been keeping up with the news, Ubisoft is still going full speed ahead with this "Always Online DRM". The truly sad thing is that despite it saying this in CAPSLOCKED TEXT in 2 plainly visible places on the store page, AC2 has risen to Number 2 in the Top Sellers on Steam as of this post.

I honestly don't know what to say to that. I especially like the part in the huge text stating that they can terminate the online activation anytime with a 30 day warning. Good luck with that.

On the upside, our buddy LewieP of SavyGamer fame is rallying Europe to battle the French publisher/developer. It's a nice angle of attack. No sales and Ubi will scream piracy, huge sales and they smugly announce they were right. Sales that end up being returned, refunded and makes a chunk of their stock get labeled "Used" and resold with a lower price point just might be the way to get their attention. That's what I hope anyway.

As of now I'm unaware if there's anything similar happening on this side of the Atlantic, but our return policies here aren't nearly as understanding.

We'll keep everyone informed if anything else develops.

Michael Hermes has detailed an extensive guide about how you can create symbolic links in Windows 7 so that you can have some Steam games in different directories than the default and Windows / Steam will believe it's all still in the default
.

Michael Hermes wrote: This tutorial explains how to create a link between the main hard drive with Windows 7 installed on it to the larger hard drive with more space. It will involve deleting folders and using the command prompt, so if you’re not comfortable with either I would recommend exploring other options. That said, the process is fairly straightforward and easy to do. (The good news is that Steam allows unlimited downloads of purchased content. If you truly manage to bugger things, simply reinstall the Steam client and re-download all your games.)

Read the full article here.

Looks like there will be plenty to do for the cost conscious gamer this weekend. Currently, the Shadowgrounds games are 75% off due to Steam's midweek madness sale. Shattered Horizon will be free to play this weekend, from the 19th to the 21st of February and the price will be knocked down 50% during this time as well. If you're curious about this excellent and unique game then now is the time to check it out.

Also, GOG now has a number of Activision games in their catalog, including Gabriel Knight, Phantasmagoria and Vampire: The Masquerade: Redemption (one of my personal favorites). Interstate 76 is due to release at the end of February as well - looks like it'll be a good month for retro-ish PC gaming.

Piracy is discussed often on the internet, and news sites, but it seems like the only way it's ever approached is with a stern look and a black mark on pirates. If the numbers for piracy are to be believed why aren't more people admitting to it? Certainly some of these game journalists must have snatched a piece of code at some point in their lives, before they had all their games just handed to them as review copies.


Well I'm coming out of the captain's quarters as it were; I was once a software pirate. Once, but not anymore.

So what changed? Why did I give up the life of illegally downloading software for free? Read on to find out.

Read more...

This weekend DiRT 2 is on sale for $19.99.

Read more...

One of the biggest comments around the Calculator that I see goes something like this:

Quote:Wow, $2000, but I didn't spend nearly that much, I bought mostly everything on sale.

With that in mind I'll soon be including sale prices and tallying those up as well. The calculator will make two assumptions; that you bought everything on sale and that you bought nothing on sale. It will give you a low and high value with the idea that what you actually spent is somewhere in between.

Thanks to omnilynx at Steam Deals I have historic sale pricing from the Christmas Sale which will give a good baseline to start from. Thanks omnilynx!