Steam Now Supports Subscription-Based Games

Steam Now Supports Subscription-Based Games

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Gaming News, PC On: 25 Apr

Valve is looking to consolidate your entire PC gaming experience in a single location with the newest update to their mega-popular Steam service. In addition to playing host to most of your favorite single-player PC experiences, the team announced this morning that Steam will now also support games that require a monthly subscription fee for [...]

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Xi3 announces price, custom UI for “Piston” modular PC

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 09 Mar

Okay, so Xi3′s upcoming modular PC, codenamed the “Piston” isn’t Valve’s Steam Box console. But Xi3 is one of the hardware manufacturers that Valve has tapped to produce their upcoming set-top box, so a lot of people are assuming that the Piston will give us a good preview of what to expect from Valve’s still [...]

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Steam Database Files Reveal New Games Incoming; Includes Original Halo Trilogy

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 04 Feb

Holy Alien Invasions, Batman! If a recent post on the NeoGAF forums is to be believed, then Steam users are potentially getting all the Master Chief they can handle at some point in the future. According to leaked database files, the original Halo trilogy, as well as a bunch of other quality games, will all [...]

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Dream Team: Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams Will Deliver the D.I.C.E. 2013 Opening Keynote

Posted By: Vincent Parisi In: Console News, Gaming News On: 28 Jan

Wow, talk about a dynamic duo. It is now official that sci-fi extraordinaire, and the future Mr. Star Wars, J.J. Abrams will be cohosting the D.I.C.E. 2013 opening keynote alongside Valve’s boss Gabe Newell. Pick those jaws up off the floor, fellow nerds, or you’ll catch flies. For those who don’t know, D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, [...]

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CES 2013: Valve and Xi3′s “Steam Box” unveiled

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, PC On: 08 Jan

The oft-rumored “Steam Box” has finally been confirmed: today Valve announced that they have partnered with hardware manufacturer Xi3 to create a specialized gaming PC designed to take advantage of Steam’s “Big Picture” mode.

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Steam holiday sale extended until the end of the weekend

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Gaming News, PC On: 04 Jan

Steam’s yearly holiday sale was supposed to come to an end tomorrow, but today Valve announced that the sale would be extended another two days, as this weekend will be host to a series of “encore deals” that’ll give PC gamers a second chance to grab any discounts they may have missed earlier in the [...]

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Holiday Steam Sale begins now

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 20 Dec

While it’s doubtful that the world will actually end tomorrow, perhaps the Mayan prophecy was simply talking about how devastated your bank account is going to be after the latest Steam Sale. Steam’s infamous deep discounts are back, showering gamers with savings and impulse buys, sort of like how the Mayan lightning serpent Quatzalcoatl is [...]

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Steam celebrates Halloween with a sale

Posted By: Michael Lacerna In: Console News, Gaming News, PC On: 30 Oct

When I was a kid, the highlight of Halloween was, of course, free candy. Now that I’m an adult (well, man-child) I have two more reasons to look forward to Halloween: unnecessarily sexy (but not unwelcome) costumes, and deeply discounted horror games on Steam.

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Counterstrike: Global Offensive Getting “Big” Update Today

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Console News, Gaming News On: 01 Oct

According to their blog, Counterstrike: GO is in for a big patch today. The patch doesn’t seem to be up yet as of 2pm EST, but the developers have advised that it should be up some time today. As with their last few patches they will be addressing a bunch of bugs and smaller gameplay [...]

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Friday Wrap-up: Sequels Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Playstation 3, Xbox 360 On: 21 Sep

This week was a pretty awesome week for gamers as most of us eagerly awaited the return of Borderlands, Torchlight, or both. As such the vast majority of news and hype this week was centered around these two games. So far it seems as if both have been pretty well received, even though each had [...]

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Steam Now on Consoles, Valve’s ‘Big Picture’ Focuses on the Big Picture

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Console News, Gaming News, PC, Tech On: 10 Sep

It seems in the last few months that Valve has been content with releasing anything but games. I mean sure they recently released TF2’s popular Mann vs. Machine horde mode, but before that they had been focusing on projects such as Greenlight and Source Filmmaker. Well now they’ve officially released Big Picture which allows users [...]

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YouTube Tuesday: Great E-Sports Moment Edition

Posted By: Dave Bast In: Gaming News On: 04 Sep

Every Tuesday I like to take some time to focus on the hardworking and dedicated “YouTubers” within the gaming community. This week features an amazing moment from last week’s Dota 2 International tournament. Everyone loves a good comeback; having played Dota, LoL, and Dota 2 I can say that it isn’t uncommon to see a [...]

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