Now available as a RSS feed, are the top 10 selling games on Steam for the current week. Never before has Steam provided any details on the best selling games bought via the Steam Store. The current top 5 titles are: Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor, Assassins Creed, Team Fortress 2 and UT3 Black. You can subscribe to this RSS feed here.
And because we all love the Steam special offers they can now all be found in one place on the Steam Store front page! A new tab 'Specials' has now been added.
We are nearing the time till Valve's presentation begins (2pm PST, 10pm GMT) and our colleague Smash is on location at the Los Angeles Conference Centre, reporting back his findings. You can follow him through twitter right here - http://twitpic.com/6h3rt
Update 1: So far since arriving, smash has wandered into the 360 demo booth and found a playable Left 4 Dead 2 demo. Picture here.
Update 2: L4D2 playtest in valves room. not an expansion. pc and 360 nov 17. screen shots later at hl2.net. no ep3 at e3.
Disappointing news, no episode 3 at E3. So Episode 3 really is an ambitious project, there is still nothing to show for it!? I am surprised.
If two free weekends of Unreal Tournament 3 Black weren't enough for you, then get ready for another one starting this Thursday at 10 am PST. You can start pre-loading the game right now if you wish from the Unreal Tournament 3 Steam page. During the last free weekend player numbers for the game jumped by 2000% so there shouldn't be any lack of people to play with. Grab more details here.
You can start pre-loading your copy of Killing Floor now and be ready to play the moment it is released on May 14th.
Killing Floor is a Co-op Survival Horror FPS set in the devastated cities and countryside of England after a series of cloning experiments for the military goes horribly wrong. You and your friends are members of the military dropped into these locations with a simple mission: Survive long enough to cleanse the area of the failed experiments!
In another news, Footie fans who own Football Manager 2009 or Worldwide Soccer Manager 2009 on Steam ( like me and Laivasse ), you can purchase Football Manager Live for $21.99 (Includes first 4 months of play time) Click here for more info.
Football Manager Live from Sports Interactive, the creators of the hugely popular Football Manager series, is a combination of Fantasy Football, Auction sites, Social Networking and the Football Manager concept all rolled into one.
ACE Team's highly acclaimed ZenoClash will continue to live on past release with free downloadable content. The first of which is a model pack for Garry’s Mod, including 70 models from the game for fans to play around with and create ZenoClash inspired machinima.
ACE Team will continue to support Zeno Clash with free DLC and updates. Stay tuned for future updates.
To receive this free DLC you need to own Garry's Mod and ZenoClash. Steam News.
Plants vs. Zombies, the incredibly well received new release from PopCap games is now available with 12 Steam achievements.
The game, which has been a favourite with gamers is available for £6.99 through Steam, unfortunately many of our staff are already addicted. Steam news.
A new publisher has joined Steam today, to expand Steam's catalog of massively multiplayer online games. NCsoft the world's premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games announced that their award winning catalog of MMO franchises are now available via Steam.
NCsoft's leading-edge MMOs are an incredible addition to the Steam library of games," said Jason Holtman, director of business development at Valve. "NCsoft is a clear leader in the MMO industry, and we believe our player community will be very excited to have access to the diverse catalog NCsoft has to offer our members.
If you pre-order PopCap's Plants vs Zombies now for £6.99/$9.99/€9.99 you will get a free copy of Heavy Weapon Deluxe. If you don't know about the game, Plants vs Zombies is a tower defense game involving plants and some zombies, you can find out more details at the official website.
Zeno Clash is now available on Steam for $19.99. This Source Engine game. Nominated in 'Excellence in Visual Art' at the Independent Games Festival, the original visuals, which make full use of the Source engine features.
Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal.
ACE Team have just released a new video of their upcoming game - Zeno Clash. This video shows some characters that you will meet on your journey throughout the game.
In this trailer we show some of the unusual characters that the player will encounter in our bizzare world. ‘The Corwid of the free’ are a group of insane people that live in the woods, where they will develop their obsessions and manias no matter how impractical or absurd these may be.
E.Y.E is a new game scheduled for release in the not too distant future developed by Streum On Studio. The game is actually a hybrid of a first person shooter and a role playing game and is being developed on the Source engine.
The story takes place in a dark future that has seen unending wars between the Federation - a several worlds union, and the Metastreumonic Force - an ancient and mysterious power. The player, travelling through a solo campaign in which FPS and RPG merge into one set, must fight the coming back Metastreumonic Force, but also help the Federation to take control again.
E.Y.E will ship with a singleplayer, multiplayer and co-op mode, and it looks really promising. Check out the trailer below. The title will most likely be available on Steam later this year. Streum On Studio website.
Capcom's new game Flock has arrived onto Steam and is available for just £11.99/$14.99.
Flock sees you controlling a UFO with the mission of guiding a group of sheep to their destination in accross more than 50 levels. There is a 2-player co-op mode, realistic physics and a level editor. Check out the store page for more details.
Ubisoft have jumped on the sales bandwagon and each day this week, 1 Ubisoft game will be available for a special discounted price for just 24 hours. Publisher page. I will update this post throughout the week: