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Botanicula Review
Amanita Design is a developer that over the last years they gave us games like Samorost and Machinarium that managed to stand from the adventure game crowd because of their artistic design and unique gameplay. Botanicula is their newest creation that shares these...
Assassin’s Creed III Rise Trailer
Blood will be shed, sacrifices will be made, but the idea we all fight for will live on forever. Assassin’s Creed 3 shows us that the smallest action can spark the flame that ignites the revolution: a soldier fighting for his country; a priest struggling with his...
Valve Introducing the Source Filmmaker
Creating cool machinima with a video game is usually a lot of trouble. The Source Filmmaker (SFM) is the movie-making tool built and used by Valve to make movies inside the Source game engine. Because the SFM uses the same assets as the game, anything that exists in...
TF2, CSS, DODS and HL2DM updated
Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Source Engine Changes (TF2, DoD:S,...
Singstar Singstore update – July 2
Not the biggest list of tracks they have released, but they have a couple of gems in there, new and old. The Wanted are powering forward on their quest for world domination of the pop charts, and we have their massive hit ‘Lose My Mind’ for you. On a more classic rock...
Europe says games may be resold
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers cannot stop you from reselling your downloaded games. More specifically: "An author of software cannot oppose the resale of his 'used' licences allowing the use of his programs downloaded from the...