Tagged:  Steam

By Anthony LaBella, February 17, 2012 0 GN

It would seem that Xbox LIVE has been losing steam on the downloadable games front in the past year or so. That sentiment was expressed by 2D Boy’s Ron Carmel with an in-depth report last year regarding Xbox LIVE Arcade,… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, February 8, 2012 4 Interviews

Originally released as a Source engine mod in 2008, Dear Esther is an experimental first-person game in which players traverse an uninhabited island, discovering voiced-over letter fragments along the way. A few years ago, former DICE employee Robert Briscoe decided… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, January 16, 2012 0 GN

It has been revealed that Q.U.B.E., the first game to be released with the backing of the Indie Fund, recouped its full investment after just four days on Steam. The Indie Fund is an organization helmed by notable game designers… Read More »

By Mike Murphy, January 6, 2012 0 GN

Steam has been a digital distribution giant ever since Valve decided to take the program in that direction back in 2005. Despite the emergence of competition this year from EA’s Origin, Valve has reported that 2011 was yet another year… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, November 8, 2011 0 GN

As of this writing, the Steam forums are “temporarily offline for maintenance.” This comes in the wake of reports that the forums were hacked earlier today. A Reddit user posted the above image, which seems to indicate that hacking website… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, October 10, 2011 0 GN

Videogame company Replay Games has obtained the rights to the Leisure Suit Larry franchise, and it has something special planned for the series’ 25th anniversary next year. The developer’s first order of business will be an updated HD version of… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, August 25, 2011 0 GN

When Portal creator Kim Swift left Valve over a year ago for Airtight Games, she was offered the lead role on a brand new project. A recent preview has revealed that game to be Quantum Conundrum, a first-person puzzle platformer…. Read More »

By Dan Crabtree, August 17, 2011 0 VG Review

Now here’s a game whose whole world got all twisted. The best kind of games got unity, got cohesion, and this game, well, it ain’t got it. That don’t mean it’s not the best kind though. I wouldn’t of known… Read More »

By Greg Galiffa, July 18, 2011 0 Features

A few months ago, I was asked to review Moon Diver. I don’t own an Xbox 360, so I had to borrow one to get the XBLA version of the game. After creating an XBLA account, I downloaded the game… Read More »

By Anthony LaBella, July 7, 2011 0 Features

Videogame companies look to reach new audiences to branch out, explore new concepts, and, of course, to generate even more revenue. But no one developer or publisher has discovered the silver bullet for market growth, though big strides has been… Read More »