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System Shock 2 Coming to GOG and Steam soon

12-02-2013 by Craig Farren
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Choose your path, choose your weapons, choose your skills and then immerse yourself in what is arguably one of the most frightening, eerie and simply amazing titles around.

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Tagged as: System Shock, Irrational Games, GOG, Steam, Ken Levine

Newell Teases Steam Box In 2013

10-12-2012 by Tim Harmer
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Speaking to Kotaku, Gabe Newell talks up Steam Big Picture, Steam Linux and a Steam hardware platform.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam, gaming

Assassin's Creed 3 and Far Cry 3 not available on UK Steam Store; "We've been in discussions with Valve" - Ubisoft

26-11-2012 by Craig Farren
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Assassin's Creed 3 finally made it to PC on Tuesday, but an astute reader pointed out that it hadn't wound up on Steam yet. And it still hasn't. As it turns out, there's been a little trouble at Ubisoft's end.

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Tagged as: Ubisoft, Assassins Creed, Far Cry, Steam

Sign up for the Valve Linux Steam Client Beta

28-10-2012 by Craig Farren
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Recently Valve announced plans for a Linux client and now you can sign up for it!

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Tagged as: Steam, Valve, Linux, Beta

PAYDAY: The Heist Anniversary Event Announced

19-10-2012 by Tim Harmer
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OVERKILL Software reveal play-for-free weekend, substantial price reductions, and soundtrack availability from Bandcamp.com & Steam.

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Tagged as: Gaming, Steam

Security researchers discover vulnerability in Steam URL protocol

19-10-2012 by Craig Farren
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Security researchers from ReVuln have discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Valve's Steam browser protocol. The exploit can allow an attacker to remotely exploit bugs in the Steam client or directly in games which can ultimately be used to run malicious code on the target PC.

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Tagged as: ReVuln, Steam, Security, exploit

Steam on Linux - Beta Late Than Never

27-09-2012 by Craig Farren
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Things have been going well. We will be having an internal beta starting next week, and a private external beta for 1,000 users sometime in October.

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Tagged as: Valve, Linux, Steam, beta

Mark of the Ninja Coming to PC

25-09-2012 by Craig Farren
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You are a ninja who bears the mark — a tattoo whose ink bestows heightened senses, but at a terrible cost.

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Tagged as: Klei Entertainment, Mark of the ninja, steam

Big Picture: Steam, Now Playing on your TV

11-09-2012 by Craig Farren
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Why give up your games, your friends, and all that you love about Steam when you play games in the living room? With Big Picture, we've reformatted Steam for use with your TV and game controller, so you can enjoy your Steam games from the comfort of your couch.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam, Big Picture

Steam 'Big Picture' beta coming soon

17-08-2012 by Craig Farren
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They’ve got the big screen, now give them the big picture.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam, Big Picture

SquareEnix Outline PC Perks For Sleeping Dogs

09-08-2012 by Tim Harmer
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In addition to TF2 pre-order goodies, PC gamers will see higher quality textures, multi-monitor support and more...

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Tagged as: Square Enix, Sleeping Dogs, Steam

Steam Expands Beyond Games

09-08-2012 by Craig Farren
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Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises and leading technologies, today announced the first set of Software titles are heading to Steam, marking a major expansion to the platform most commonly known as a leading destination for PC and Mac games.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam

Valve ports Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux, outperforms Windows version

03-08-2012 by Craig Farren
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Valve ports Left 4 Dead 2 to Linux and finds that it performs better than the Windows version.

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Tagged as: Linux, Ubuntu, Gaming, Valve, Steam, L4D2

Valve Confirm Steam For Linux Plans

17-07-2012 by Tim Harmer
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Initial aim is for a full-featured client and Left4Dead 2 port on Ubuntu /w OpenGL, with ambitions for porting over all future Valve games.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam, Linux

EA Offering Beta Preview of Origin 9.0

17-07-2012 by Jon Martindale
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EA Games is offering a beta preview for its "landmark update" of the Origin digital distribution platform, version 9.0.

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Tagged as: Origin, EA, Steam

Valve's Greenlight to bring more indi to Steam

10-07-2012 by Jon Martindale
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Valve has spoken out about its Greenlight voting platform, saying that it will help bring more popular indi games to the digital download service.

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Tagged as: Valve, Steam, Greenlight, Digital Download

Final Fantasy 7 coming to Steam, leak suggests

22-06-2012 by Craig Farren
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A new edition of Final Fantasy 7 could finally be released on Steam, a leaked product description suggests.

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Tagged as: Steam, Final Fantasy, Square Enix

Hooray! Steam Adding Remote Game Installs

03-05-2012 by Craig Farren
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On the Steam forums, Valve’s heralded the arrival of a new beta patch that will allow you to manage and install games on your main machine from any browser or mobile device.

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Tagged as: steam, beta, valve