Team Fortress 2 Dedicated Server Available
Jason Ruymen from Valve has just announced on the HLDS mailing list that the Team Fortress 2 dedicated server content is available for download through the hldsupdatetool, as well as an update to hldsupdatetool itself, which now indicates the percentage of the update completed. Here is the announcement from Jason himself: Hi guys, First off, […]
Half-Life 2 Secrets: ‘Lost’ and Gnomes
Rumours are flying around the internet right now regarding apparent Half-Life 2 secrets. More specifically, involving the Half-Life 2 series, the ABC show ‘Lost’ and… gnomes. Yes, you read right, it really does sound that strange. So join us now as we collect together the ‘evidence’ and try to blow this whole ordeal apart. The […]
Call of Duty 4 coming to Steam! *UPDATE*
We just got an official statement from Activision telling us that Call of Duty 4 will be available on Steam. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the new action-thriller from the award-winning team at Infinity Ward, the creators of the Call of Duty® series, delivers the most intense and cinematic action experience ever. Armed with […]
Steamfriends.com Orange box contest
The Orange Box is nigh. If that sounds a bit like the apocalypse, it’s because it is – the end-all gaming package is slated for release on the 10th of October, and it might well end up changing the landscape of gaming as we know it. And you get two copies for free, right here. […]
Steam Peer-to-Peer files *Update*
It seems Valve has done an update to P2P files hidden within Steam. The Steam Community’s voice chat is carried over Steam’s new BitTorrent-based P2P network, and the separation of the binaries that work that little bit of magic (into bin/p2pcore.dll and bin/p2pvoice.dll) strongly suggests that we’ll be seeing more applications of the technology at […]