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There's been a big reshuffle and lots of
new content added so check it all out!
I love Steam, I really do. I think it is a great thing for Valve, for all the
people using it to sell their games, for all 15 million users and it is a great
thing for the PC. Back in December last year I wrote an article ‘Steampunked.’
What you will read now is a totally new revamped version of that article. This
goes into more depth in some areas and hopefully is a better read. [Read More...]
Content writer Christopher "Ennui" Burris sits down with Decadence developer Henrik "Majestic XII" Alfredsson, responsible for game and level design on the upcoming modification. [Read More...]
Steam is changing the gaming world. That is what I think, and I think it is doing it for the better. Since it first came into being with the release of Counter Strike 1.4 it has gone through legal proceedings, long periods of downtime and major facelifts. But that is history, I want to talk about how Steam is going to, and is changing the gaming world. [Read More...]
The Orange Box (OB) is the latest release from the gaming giants, Valve. The OB is a collection of three new games, and two old ones thrown in for free, and it costs the price of a single game at retail. So what are these games you ask? Well let me tell you! [Read More...]
Call of Duty 4 is an immense game, one of the few First Person Shooters to have had a similar impact on me to that of the Half-Life games. Upon first playing this game I knew I would love it, there is something about it which is just brilliant. The game is highly cinematic at times in single-player, with some scenes just brilliant and at times shocking. This game does some things which I have not witnessed in other games, and at times my jaw was left hanging at what had occurred to you character. [Read More...]
Peggle Deluxe is another quirky game presented to us by PopCap Games for a value for money $20 or £10 on Steam. On the surface you may consider it a simple puzzle game, but it is more. Not much more, but it is certainly more than a simple puzzle game. [Read More...]
So the Beta for Team Fortress 2 (TF2) has finally been made available to all of those who pre-order the Orange Box via Steam. Any by finally I do mean finally as for those of us in the UK at least we had to wait until the early hours of Tuesday, the day after the Beta was meant to be unlocked. However this is a Valve game and as such we should all be used to this by now, and I think the wait was worth it. [Read More...]
Half-life 2: Episode 1 is the first in a scheduled trilogy of Half-life episodes and again places the player in the shoes of Gordon Freeman as he deals with the repercussions of his actions at the top of the Citadel. The state of the world has changed following the detonation of the teleport reactor, and much of Episode 1 is something of an introduction into the events that are soon to follow in subsequent episodes. As such we return to the Combine riddled, alien infested warzone of City-17, that has clearly seen better days, and the bowels of the now crumbling Citadel, for a 4-5 hour, densely packed and altogether tighter experience. [Read More...]
To the modern FPS gamer, whose idea of a great multiplayer experience is wedging
their character between a high-definition bump-mapped muddy floor and a wall of
realistic anti-aliased sandbags as bullets fly past, Team Fortress must sound like
a homosexual intercourse innuendo. “I squeezed in through the back entrance before
unleashing all of my firepower on his sorry ass!” “I was right on him, charging
up my shot, but he was going too fast and I fired my load too soon!” “This big,
burly engineer jumped on me and whipped out his wrench!” [Read More...]
Imagine the scene: You wake up one morning and everything is just better than it
was the day before. Instead of clambering out of bed in the morning in last night's
clothes, still smelling of vomit from the night before, you're wearing the finest
silk pyjamas. The bed you clamber out of? A four-poster bed with hand sown blankets,
not the bunk bed you share with your reprobate of a flat mate. You walk gracefully
down the marble steps and into a large, fully fitted kitchen only to find a maid,
as opposed to your next door neighbour trying to steal your shoes again. [Read More...]
This is the third and final part in the series of basic playing guides.
These guides will teach you the basic things you need to know when playing
Day of Defeat. [Read More...]
This is the second in the series of basic playing guides. These guides will
teach you the basic things you need to know when playing Day of Defeat. [Read More...]
