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Welcome to our newly designed
website created by our very own Yorick.
There's been a big reshuffle and lots of
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DICE 2009: Valve View on DRM and Pirates
Posted @ 1:44 AM, February 19 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam
Gabe Newell believes that the new way of entertainment is direct customer relationships, service orientation. Valve aims to touch their customers in some way every three weeks, not every three years when a new game is shipped.
Valve have observed the following:
- 30-year old songs with a little service (Rock Band, Guitar Hero) generate huge profits
- Pirates are ahead not just on price, but on service
- DRM appears to increase, not decrease piracy
- Privacy and transparency
- Shrinking distance to customer empowers content creators
DRM decreases service value for customers which increases pirated copies of games because they look more appealing, so DRM is bad.
You can read the full keynote live blog on G4tv.com.
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Surf The Internet While In-Game – A New Steam Update
Posted @ 6:12 PM, January 14 2009, By: DigiQ8 In Steam
A new Steam update has been released tonight, which gives you the ability to browse the internet while in game including web sites that use flash.
- Updated game overlay web browser to support generic web browsing, including web sites that use flash
- Fixed games list scrolling behavior with pageup/pagedown and mouse wheel
- Fixed GTA4 backups not restoring correctly
- Fixed several cases where matchmaking would not work in Left 4 Dead in using Cafe accounts
- Changed Friends to be enabled for Cafe accounts
- Removed 'view invites' dialog on startup, now clicking on a group/user invite toast will take you directly to the Community control page
- Fixed guest passes not showing immediately in games list
- Fixed case where a user would be told a guest pass had expired after they had bought the full game
- Improved Steam Windows Service restart logic in serveral places
Screenshot below.
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EA Joins Europe on Steam
Posted @ 12:29 PM, December 22 2008, By: Hectic Glenn In Steam
Valve today announced Spore, Spore Creepy & Cute Parts Pack, Mass Effect, Need for Speed Undercover and FIFA Manager 2009 are available now to gamers in most of Europe, the United States and Canada via Steam.
In the coming weeks, Mirror's Edge, Command & Conquer Red Alert 3, and Dead Space, will be added to the catalogue of EA's titles available via Steam. Steam games.
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Valve Are Aware of the Europe Prices Issue
Posted @ 6:47 PM, December 20 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games
SteamFriends had a chat with Valve's Mike D. about the the difference of pricing for the European Union. He said that they are aware of this issue and they are fixing it.
Yes, we agree that some of the prices for third party products are higher then what you can find locally but we are working to fix that.
I got a feeling that they'll fix this issue in the upcoming months, hopefully.
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EA Joins Steam
Posted @ 3:48 PM, December 19 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games
Publisher Electronic Arts today officially joined Valve's Steam service today, with titles such as:
Those titles above are available now to gamers in North America.
"EA is one of the industry's largest publishers," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "The EA titles coming to Steam this holiday include some this year's top PC titles."
"We are pleased to extend our holiday titles to gamers worldwide via Steam -- a revolutionary technology that is one of the game industry's most successful digital distribution services," said John Pleasants, President, Global Publishing & Chief Operating Officer.
That's not all, more titles are coming soon on Steam like: Mirror's Edge , Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, and Dead Space. Why don't you visit EA's page on Steam for more info?
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Euro and Sterling Now Available
Posted @ 8:33 PM, December 17 2008, By: Evo In Steam
This is the word from the Steam News page.Products on Steam are now priced using local currency in the United Kingdom (Pounds Sterling), and Europe (Euros). All other countries remain in United States Dollars. That is all.
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Spore is Coming to Steam?
Posted @ 12:36 PM, December 16 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam, Steam Games
We heard a rumor that EA's Spore is coming to Steam, a Software End User License Agreement for Spore has been found on Steam website, look here.
It's also rumored that Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning is coming to Steam as well.
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Steam Client Update
Posted @ 2:09 AM, December 2 2008, By: DigiQ8 In Steam
There was a new Steam Client update last night, look below:
- Fixed rare cases of missing desktop shortcuts, Game Explorer links and uninstall entries
- Fixed a potential overlay crash in games that run ShellExecute with a very long command line
- Fixed input for Asian languages
Restart Steam, Get update.
P.S Glad to be back
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Left 4 Dead and Steam Updates
Posted @ 12:37 AM, November 15 2008, By: Munro In Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Steam
Updates to Left 4 Dead Demo and Steam have been released. The updates will be
applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes
include:
Left 4 Dead Demo
- Added the ability to tie game servers to Steam Community groups. Group administrators
can now see the GroupID on the group's administrative page, which can be used
as the value for sv_steamgroup. Users that are in that group will then be able
to browse directly to them from the main menu
- Fixed setinfo exploit
- Fixed a crash when exiting the game
- Fixed a few cases where the game would crash when using ALT-TAB
- Fixed a problem that could cause texture corruption on some ATI video cards
- Fixed a bug that could cause infected horde to disappear
Half-Life 1 Engine
- Fixed crash caused by specially crafted connect string
Steam Client
- Improved GFW integration for titles that support it
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