Looks like Steam for Mac is being seeded to a select chosen few. As such, we now have screenshots and a delightful video accompanied by some sort of feel-good indie rock. Hint: Steam for Mac looks exactly like Steam for Windows. → Read More
Steam has been working on their new UI for a few months now, I’ve been using it for a while, but it sounds like it’s finally going to be released. The new version has some really nice cosmetic updates, as well as some added functionality (such as a much loved/hated achievement system). → Read More
STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING~! MODERN WARFARE 2 WILL BE FREE ON STEAM THIS WEEKEND, AND THIS WEEKEND ONLY. THAT MEANS YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO BEAT A FIVE-HOUR GAME, THEN PLAY MULTI-PLAYER TILL YOU GROW BORED OF IT. → Read More
Once you pick this game up, there “ain’t no rest for the wicked.” We all really enjoyed Borderlands here at CrunchGear, and here’s your chance to pick up your own copy for $25 at Steam. That’s 50% off, and one hell of a deal. Go. Now. You can thank me later. → Read More
Steam for Mac is 100 percent official. Valve just released a statement saying it plans to launch it this April. The first games available will be Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life (and expansions), Counter Strike, and Portal. Portal 2 will be the first game released for Mac and PC simultaneously. Pretty big news, yes. → Read More
Stupid Steam, making me spend money whenI had no intention of doing so. This weekend’s deal is the FarCry collection, which includes FarCry and FarCry 2: Fortune’s Edition (includes DLC and other bonus items). (Of course, you could have just visited that Web site I mentioned the other day.) It costs $15. Yeah, I can part with $15 to have those two games in my ever-growing collection. → Read More
There have been more than a dozen and a half AVP games over the last three decades and a new one is prepped to launch on February 16, 2010 on the 360, PS3, and Windows. That’s awesome. But the truth is that while I’m going to advice you to fire up Steam and download the demo, I didn’t even know there was a new AVP game in development until I saw the news. → Read More
Steam, Valve’s digital distribution for video games (as well as a kind of “social network” for gamers, though the phrase “social network” makes me nauseous), is really quite successful. In 2009, its fifth year of operation, sales were up 205 percent over the previous year. The service has more than 25 million users, of which 10 million have full profiles. (I’m one of them, by the way.) That means… → Read More
So this is pretty handy. An Internet wizard has put together Steam Games Sales, a Web site that aggregates all of Steam’s current sales and puts them in one easy-to-read list. → Read More
After a clean OS install, Steam is the third thing I load on the PC, after only Chrome and Photoshop. It has became the center of my gaming life and now Dell has worked a dell with the company to have the digital delivery manager pre-installed on all Alienware systems. Just think, Steam is non-spyware or bloatware software pack that will probably be installed on the Alienware rig anyway. Maybe… → Read More
Steam has yet another great weekend sale going on right now. Both Crysis and Crysis Warhead are $15 each this weekend and let me just say, they are totally worth it. → Read More
Heads up FPS fans. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl is on sale this weekend on Valve’s Steam store for a fiver. That’s quite the discount off the already quite reasonable price of $20. → Read More
Two things I like about this: one, we can play Unreal Tournament 3 for free all weekend. Two, Steam’s weekend apparently starts on a Thursday. → Read More
Okay, who here hasn’t played one of the Jedi Knight games? No one? That sounds ’bout right. Let me just say that the series is one of the best of all time. The story line rich, the graphics always top notch for their time, and it’s Star Wars. What’s not to like? Do you yourself a favor, throw on some trousers and hop onto Steam where you can buy the complete series for $20; most of us are buying… → Read More
Be still, my beating heart. I’ve been this excited before, but I can’t remember when.
Some of the greatest games in the history of personal computing are now available on Steam. I’m talking, of course, about Sierra’s King’s Quest and Space Quest collections. This can only mean that additional Sierra games will be made available in the future. Please, please, please, make it so. → Read More
You’ll find that most of the games that LucasArts just made available on Steam are no more than $4.99. (Battlefront II and Thrillville: Off the Rails are the most expense at $19.99.) The full list? Sure, why not? → Read More
The rumors were swirling, swirling! But they’re no longer rumors, now are they? I’m talking, of course, about LucasArts’ huge announcement that they just made: a whole bunch of their old games will be available on Steam beginning on Wednesday. → Read More
If you just want a couple games to get you through the long weekend, today’s X-COM deal should do that for you. But if you need something a little more… substantial, which includes the X-COM games, may I take the liberty, sir, of recommending this 2K games pack? $54 is a substantial sum, to be sure, but consider what you are receiving:
-Bioshock
-Civilization III, IV and all… → Read More
Ladies and gentlemen! Fallout 3 can be yours this weekend for $25 on Steam. That’s a full 50 percent off the regular price. And if you have an extra couple of dollars to spend, may I recommend the two most recent expansion packs, Broken Steel and Point Lookout? I mean, what else are you going to do this weekend, celebrate the birth of your country by lighting dumb fireworks or something? Nope. → Read More
One of those highly paid analyst types from Wedbush has gone on record saying that the only thing holding back a true-to-life Xbox 360 game download service, à la Steam, is hard drive capacity. Right now, you can buy a 120GB hard drive for $140 on Amazon, which is ridiculous given the low, low prices of standard hard drives these days. (A recent CrunchDeal spotted a 1TB hard drive for $77.) So if… → Read More
I tell ya, when the zombie apocalypse sweeps over this planet, we’ll all be in a world of hurt. I mean, aside from avoiding zombies trying to munch our brains, how will we charge our precious portable electronics after the power grid fails? With steam, friends, that’s how! To give you all an idea, consider this DIY steam powered iPod charger! → Read More
In moves which may or may not lead to an outcry from the gamer population at large, both Valve and Microsoft have strengthened their DRM on their PC gaming platforms. Whether these changes will simply curb piracy, as intended, or whether they will prove a nuisance as other DRM schemes have done historically is yet to be seen. → Read More
Now that Steam supports DLC, micropurchases (like horse armor), and extra levels, you can expect the same crippled, semi-complete games you get at retail places. After all, why release a whole game when you can release two thirds of it and then charge $10 for the ending? → Read More
Thanks to all you unemployed gamers that downloaded and played Unreal Tournament 3 for free last weekend on Steam, this coming weekend is going to be free too! Valve came to relies that if you make popular games free, people will play ‘em. Then, if the price is right after the free period, they will sell a crapton of copies. So, this coming weekend (March 13-15) the game free again and then… → Read More
Don’t have much going on this weekend? How ’bout grabbing a free copy of Unreal Tournament 3 for free on Steam. That’s right, buddy. It’s free. Of course there is a catch though. → Read More
Attention! Those of you with a gaming-worthy Windows PC might want to know that this weekend is Free Unreal Tournament 3 Weekend. You can play Unreal Tournament 3 Black totally for free. And, if you’re keen to play the game beyond the free weekend, the game is only $11.99. That’s about the cost of a sandwich and drink in stupid New York. → Read More
Steam is offering a huge holiday sale with discounts up to 75 percent off on their entire inventory of games. There’s really no reason to hem and haw about picking up any and all of these games. What are you waiting for?! → Read More
Not only are EA games going to be released on Steam henceforth—in and of itself a big deal—but the games will be totally free of DRM. It seems the largest video games publisher has learned its lesson, and the hard way: legitimate gamers (that is, non-pirates) want nothing to do with digital rights management. → Read More
Here’s a fine way to spend that $10 you still have in your pocket after last night’s Crazy Night Out: Team Fortress 2 for $9.99 on Steam for the PC. For the uninitiated, Team Fortress 2 is still the reason I have The Orange Box handy, despite the fact that it’s the lesser Xbox 360 version. Though, as you know, my patience for shooters has pretty much run out, TF2 is well worth… → Read More
GTA IV is set for a PC release on December 2 and Steam is currently offering Vice City for anyone who pre-orders before then. What are you waiting for? Pre-order → Read More
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