Minecraft, Diablo III and Steam
First up in this three parter of news, is the confirmation of a rumour going around last week. Remember this? Well, it turns out it was no rumour and completely true. The Steam Wallet gift cards have gone on sale in U.S. GameStop stores in $20 and $50 denominations. While I understand that GameStop [...]
Read More →Perpetual Testing Initiative and Minecraft 360
Well, more than a year on and Valve are still coming out with awesome stuff for Portal 2. Their latest concoction? Nothing short of bloody awesome is what. The Perpetual Testing Initiative is not your ordinary DLC, in that you download it and get a few extra levels for your trouble. No, this 2+Gb download [...]
Read More →Minecraft 360 Edition releasing in May
Short but sweet one today with the news that Minecraft 360 Edition, the long awaited console port for the hugely popular PC sandbox, will be hitting said platform in all its blocky glory on May 9th and will cost 1600 MS Points. I too paused for a second at the price tag, but then I [...]
Read More →Notch wants to make Elite style Firefly game
So what would you call that then? Elite-fly? Firelite? I dunno, perhaps it would be best left to people who know how to name things properly. Anyway, moving on… PC Gamer were somehow talking to Notch (they didn’t say how they got him into that situation, maybe it involved pointy sticks and the promise of [...]
Read More →Mojang and Bethesda settle amicably in “Scrolls” debate
During the back end of last year, I posted two articles on how Bethesda, or more accurately, parent company ZeniMax, were taking legal action against gaming community favourite Mojang. To save time, I’m going to link them here and here and ask you take 5 minutes of your time to read them, they’re not very [...]
Read More →Borderlands 2 to be on Steam and Mojang hires Bukkit devs
Two parter today and the first bit of news is the unsurprising one that Borderlands 2 will be using Steamworks on PC when it hits shelves in September. Why is this unsurprising? Well for a start, the first game was available on Steam. Not to mention that the developer, Gearbox, is likely to have warm [...]
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