A few minutes ago I got an email saying I had been accepted into the Steam family sharing beta. There are detailed instructions explaining how to set everything up but in a nutshell: Sit down at the computer where you want your Steam library to be shared. This is not […]
Games
Are you ready for a miracle?
All hail Gaben. The Steam Summer Sale is now on! Actually, I haven’t bought anything in it yet. GMG had Bioshock Infinite for €5 cheaper and nothing has really tickled my fancy since. Day 3 is about to hit the store so get ready to hit F5!
Games
Oooh, look at the size of that will ya?
Games and apps are getting bigger and bigger. It wasn’t so long ago when games that came on more than one CD were a rarity. Yes, those were the times when a packet of crisps cost 15p and you’d have change from 30p when you bought a Mars Bar. Oh, […]
Games
Steam Games over USB 2.0 is painful
Somehow I have over 450GB of games installed. I went a little mad installing them when I bought this PC last year but now that I need the space I don’t really want to download them again. Luckily I have a number of external USB drives so I started copying […]
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Natural Selection 2: survival of the fittest
Natural Selection 2 went on sale in the Steam Winter Sale and I bought it yesterday. First time playing it this evening and for complexity it blows any other team based shooter out of the water. Just take a look at the video above for a taster. I have to […]
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The Wonderful End of the World grows Companion Cubes
As part of the Potato Sack promotion last year a number of indie games received updates featuring content from Valve games. I didn’t take much notice of them at the time but I just found out that The Wonderful End of the World got a secret level with companion cubes! […]
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Robot Enrichment
I just noticed that Portal 2 now has a store where you can modify your robot. I like the way Valve monetize their games. They bring out free DLC, expanding older games with updates and offering them either free (TF2) or at a steep discount. Then they encourage you to […]
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Steam will pay you to play games
The Gothic Bundle on Steam was 150% off a few minutes ago. Steam were going to pay me 25 Euro to buy their bundle. Pity I couldn’t add it to my shopping cart ..
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L4D2: Help them up!
Lord of Angry mmmmmar person was a bit of a douche when we played L4D2 gibfest tonight. It was great fun until that guy joined. He was fairly useless, charging ahead and shooting us all the time. We got our revenge when he got knocked down. Duck watched as his […]