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It’s Official: Valve is Bringing Steam to the Mac
What was long rumored is now true. Here's the word : Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve's gaming service, and Source, Valve's gaming engine, to the Mac. Steam and Valve's library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in... »
Google Begins Implementing Auto-Captioning on YouTube
And just like that, it renders my arguments about the company being evil completely moot. Because, as it turns out, I have a deaf son with cochlear implants. »
What it looks like when you suck at Modern Warfare 2
In the above greatest hits compilation, you can enjoy favorites like the oblivious sniper, the hapless dude killed by a dropped care package, the "Where did he go? »
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 waltzes with reviewers
Electronic Arts has messed up a perfectly good Blue Danube Waltz montage by slapping onto it excerpts of breathlessly sloppy praise heaped on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , a plenty good but nowhere near to great game that's out today. It's quite good as a multiplayer game. »
Religious aliens arrive to play their part in Gratuitious Space Battles
The fantastic and fantastically named Gratuitous Space Battles just got a little more gratuitous with the addition of a new race of religious aliens on a holy war. »
Assassin’s Creed gets Machiavellian with downloadable content
The new "Bonfire of the Vanities" downloadable content is available today for Assassin's Creed 2 on the Xbox 360, adding new adventures in Florence at the behest of Machiavelli. You can buy a basic version for $4, or an extended version that adds three extra locations for $6.50 »
Quinto fondly recalls videogames before he got too old for them
Syfy has posted a short video interview with Zachary Quinto who appears in Star Trek Online as the voice of the Emergency Medical Hologram who is not Spock at all, seriously, he's not, he's really not, even though Quinto played Spock in the movie, this isn't him in the game, seriously, it's not.... »
Space combat game Flotilla indicates three-dimensional thinking
Ships have weaker armor on the bottom and the rear, so I'm going to try to get an angle on the enemy's bottom armor. That's Brendon Chung of Blendo Games indicating the sort of three-dimensional thinking you don't get in many space battles »
What if videogames could use artwork directly from movies?
Cnet reports on a company called Multiverse developing software to basically dumb down the art assets from a movie so that they can be crammed directly into a videogame. The company's marketing director, Corey Bridges, describes the currently situation when videogames are made from movies. If someone makes a video game based on... »
Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Now Available
Just a heads-up that Mozilla has shipped Firefox 3.6, the next version of its web browser. Mozilla, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Web, today released Firefox® 3.6, an update to its popular, free and open source Web browser. The latest version of Firefox introduces cutting-edge features, support... »