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Steam Sale changes paid off big time for both Valve and game developers
Many Steam users had mixed feelings about Valve Corp’s decision to eliminate Daily Deals and Flash Sales from its seasonal sales on the Steam Store, but the move seems to have paid off in a big way for the company. In previous years, Steam Sales would offer moderate discounts on a large number of games for ...
Awesome Games Done Quick speedrun marathon raised $1.2M for charity
The week-long speedrun for charity event Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) came to a close on Sunday, and the event organizers announced that they have raised over $1.2 million dollars for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This month’s AGDQ event did not manage to raise quite as much money as a previous marathon held in January 2015, which pulled in ...
Pre-orders for VR device HTC Vive will go live February 29
HTC Corp. has announced that its highly anticipated virtual reality headset, HTC Vive, will be available for pre-order on February 29, but there is still no information on how much the device will cost. While it had originally looked like HTC Vive would be the first high-end virtual reality headset to hit the market, HTC announced last month ...
Twitch beat ‘Punch Club’ much faster than the devs ever expected
Last week, the creators of boxing tycoon game Punch Club launched a clever marketing stunt that required the unwashed masses of Twitch to collectively beat the game before it could be released on Steam. On the off chance that Twitch could not somehow keep it together long enough to complete the game in a reasonable amount of ...
Sony apparently attempted to trademark the phrase “Let’s Play”
In a move that seems misguided at best, Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC has apparently filed paperwork to trademark the phrase “Let’s Play,” a term normally used for a type of web video where a gamer plays through an entire game while providing commentary on the experience. Some sleuthy NeoGAF users stumbled across a trademark request ...
Game cracker says encryption could kill video game piracy within two years
For game developers, it may seem like software piracy is an all but unstoppable fact of life for the industry, but according to the founder of well known Chinese hacker forum 3DM, game piracy might be dead in just two short years. The revelation came after numerous users questioned why it was taking the group so long ...
‘Half-Life’ series writer Marc Laidlaw has reportedly left Valve
Update: Valve Corp. has yet to comment on Marc Laidlaw’s departure, but according to Polygon, the writer has confirmed that he did in fact retire from the company. Original Article: Fans have been waiting for Valve Corp.’s Half-Life 3 for so long now that the game, which has yet to even be officially announced, has become a running gag ...
New game ‘Punch Club’ won’t launch until Twitch beats it
The developers behind the upcoming indie tycoon game Punch Club seem to have unlocked the secret to free advertising: Let Twitch users do all the marketing for you. Russian indie studio Lazy Bear Games has made Punch Club available for pre-order on Steam, but the developer says that the game will not actually launch until the herd of ...
Facebook Messenger hits 800M users and lays out plans to kill SMS
A lot of time has passed since Facebook first annoyed users by splitting off its chat features into a standalone app called Messenger, and it seems that even the most stubborn users have finally given in and downloaded the app. According to Facebook, Messenger has now reached over 800 million monthly active users, and in ...
‘Far Cry: Primal’ dev explains why the game won’t include multiplayer
It is hard to deny that multiplayer is one of the biggest trends in modern gaming, and purely single player games seem to be less and less common, particularly from AAA studios. Unfortunately, multiplayer is sometimes a tacked-on, poorly implemented aspect of many games, which can take away from the overall game experience. According to ...
