[ad_1] In yet another unexpected development from 2020, there’s a massive content update available for Left 4 Dead 2. Valve’s co-op zombie shooter was originally released in 2009, but the community is still active enough to produce a new content pack dubbed The Last Stand. There are new achievements, weapons and dialog, as well as […]
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Russian law could force Apple to cut App Store fee to 20 percent
[ad_1] A Russian lawmaker has proposed a bill that would see all app store transactions capped at 20 percent, down from the usual 30 percent. Reuters is reporting that Fedot Tumusov, a member of the State Duma, Russia’s lower house in its parliament, has tabled the law. At the same time, it would mandate that […]
Steam lets you choose words to filter from chat
[ad_1] Steam now lets you make a custom list of words you want filtered from your chat experience, Steam owner Valve has announced. The Steam Text & Chat Filtering feature already removes commonly used strong profanity and slurs, but now you can add specific words that you want to be replaced with symbols across Steam […]
EA Play hits Steam on August 31st
[ad_1] After a delay, EA Play, the subscription service formerly known as EA Access, will be available on Steam starting August 31st. The platform allows you to play Electronic Arts’ back catalog of titles as much as you want and check out its newest games before buying them. It also includes discounts on downloadable content. Some of the […]
A ‘Firewatch’ movie is in the works, again
[ad_1] In a match made in indie heaven, the independent production house behind movies like Blindspotting and Little Monsters has acquired the movie and TV rights to 2016’s Firewatch (via The Hollywood Reporter). This is the second time there’s been news of a possible Firewatch film adaption. In 2016, developer Campo Santo announced a deal with Good Universe (Last Vegas, Desperados) to make a film based […]
Epic Games Store adds support for community-made mods
[ad_1] Besides its exclusives, something PC gamers have consistently criticized the Epic Games Store over is its less robust feature set than Steam. Mod support was one of the big ones. The Steam Workshop allows you to download, install and manage modifications easily. And for all of the things Steam could do better, mod support is […]
Apple’s App Store antitrust questions will be uncomfortable for Valve
[ad_1] Steam went live in 2003, five years before the debut of the App Store. It was Valve’s attempt to streamline the update process for its own games — notably Counter-Strike — with a pipeline for software fixes built directly into the client. Valve made Steam mandatory with the release of Half-Life 2 in 2004, […]
Valve is allowing racist bots to invade ‘Team Fortress 2’
[ad_1] Frustrated fans have been posting about the invasion in the TF2 Steam forums, and on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube. Valve, the company that created TF2 and Steam, has responded with silence. “I would describe it as disastrous,” longtime TF2 player Jason Hughes said. (His name has been changed to protect against targeted in-game attacks.) […]
‘Total War Saga: Troy’ will initially be free on the Epic Games Store
[ad_1] The developer went on to say it doesn’t plan to make any of its future games Epic Games Store exclusives but noted it couldn’t have made Troy free without Epic’s help. “Making it available for free, for everyone to keep, during the first 24 hours – wouldn’t have been possible without this deal,” it said. Total […]
Indie history: How shareware helped build Epic Games
[ad_1] Present May 4th marked the 20th anniversary of GodGames’ acquisition by Take-Two. Wilson, Miller and Sweeney have all trod their own paths in the video game industry, and they’re all still active today. They started out in the undefined, pre-internet, post-shareware fog of the early 1990s, where they learned plenty about large-scale business and […]