Posts Tagged Valve
Steam Mobile (iOS & Android)
Posted by gavomatic57 in iOS, Utilities on January 27, 2012
PC & Mac gamers with iPhones or Androids will be pleased to hear that there is a Steam app on their respective app stores right now. However, the app is already attracting negative reviews from people who can’t read. You see, the app is in beta and in order to use the app you need [...]
Steam Forums & Database Intrusion Detected!
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, News, PC Games on November 12, 2011
More bad news for gamers I’m afraid. News broke the other day that the Steam forums had been defaced and that potentially they had found their way into the Steam database too. I didn’t mention it then because there was very little official information, but now we have this news article on Valve’s website. We [...]
Counterstrike: Global Offensive trailer
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, PC Games, Playstation 3 on September 2, 2011
I must confess to being more of a Day of Defeat fan to be honest with you, but this update is looking pretty sweet. The PS3 version will have Move support and Steam integration for cross-platform play. The question is whether the mouse is still mightier than the Move…;) Purists are bound to scoff at [...]
Portal: No Escape
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Internet, Odds & Ends on August 24, 2011
This video is essential viewing for any Portal fans out there. Valve’s original Portal was a surprise hit nestled in amongst the Half Life 2 titles on The Orange Box. Portal 2 took the series to a new level and brought many more fans into the world of Aperture Science.
Portal 2 – the IGN video review
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, PC Games, Playstation 3 on April 19, 2011
Reviews are starting to emerge for Valve’s Portal 2 and it looks like they may have nailed it once again. Portal was a hit that took a lot of people by surprise, but Portal 2 looks like more of everything that made its predecesor such a success.
Portal 2 – the TV ad
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, PC Games, Playstation 3 on April 8, 2011
This is out later this month…can’t wait.
Half Life 2 – Engine update
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Mac OSX, Windows on June 1, 2010
The best game in the world (in my opinion) has recently had an upgrade. The game uses the Source engine, which when coupled with the Steam content delivery platform allows Valve to upgrade certain parts of the source engine, whether it be the physics engine, the textures or anything else. Since 2004 when Half Life 2 was released, the engine has seen a number of improvements, such as HDR lighting, more anti-aliasing and multicore rendering. Unfortunately until very recently it was only the later episodes of Half LIfe 2 that incorporated these features, which was a shame because the main game is arguably the most important part.
Steam for Linux
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Kubuntu, Ubuntu on April 23, 2010
I recently blogged about the Mac as a potential gaming platform and I mentioned that whilst it is an exciting proposition, the limited range and power of GPU’s found in the current Mac range may be a stumbling block.
Phoronix recently posted a few articles that made me giddy with excitement. The Mac Steam beta has uncovered a few interesting items of code that suggest that as well as a Steam client for OSX, one for Linux is also on the way. First there is this
The Mac, a gaming scene in the making?
Posted by gavomatic57 in Games, Mac OSX, Windows on March 12, 2010
Valve, the much championed game developer and creator of the Steam delivery service for Windows PC’s recently announced that it was bringing the Steam client to OSX. Steam is the one right answer to combating piracy on the PC and most publishers worth the time of day use it. Steam allows you to buy and download games from their online store, right onto your hard drive, whilst protecting the developer with its inbuilt DRM yet allowing the consumer to re-download the game at any time. Not only that it also patches your purchased games automatically and provides community features such as instant messaging, a server browser, community groups and personal profiles for each user. It has recently added more features, such as the ability to store your save games in the cloud, achievements and Steamworks – its development and publishing suite.
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