Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve’s gaming service, and Source, Valve’s gaming engine, to the Mac.
Steam and Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.
“As we transition from entertainment as a product to entertainment as a service, customers and developers need open, high-quality Internet clients,” said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. “The Mac is a great platform for entertainment services.” (more…)
Jake West and Vince Zampella, former President and CEO of Infinity Ward respectively, have begun legal proceedings over their firings at Activision. (more…)
Yesterday Activision announced that it’s record setting franchise Call of Duty will get more map packs, obviously, another release in 2011, less obvious, and a spin off game.
The most intersting news from Activision’s Call of Duty announcement is probably about Sledgehammer. Sledgehammer games, that is. Sledgehammer will be the company producing the spin-off action-advendure version of Call Of Duty. (more…)
This is an app you may not have been dying for but if you’re from my generation you might be dying to get. Sony has released the bouncing beeping classic game Q*bert to the iTunes Store.
Last week the gaming world lit up with news that the StarCraft 2 closed beta had begun. The original game rose to epic status, becoming almost a national pastime in South Korea, and is still one of the most popular Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games on the market today–this in spite of the fact that the game was released in 1998. As sequel to one of the most played PC games in the world, StarCraft 2 has some big shoes to fill but early word seems to be it’s doing a nice job of it. Judge for yourself with some of these great matches. (more…)
After a long wait, Nintendo has officially dated the next highly-anticipated installment in its Metroid franchise, Metroid: Other M, for June 27, 2010. (more…)
Jesse Schell recently gave a thought provoking presentation at the recent Design Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE) 2010 summit regarding the future of game development. He starts off with a very pointed analysis of the current established game industry, who is currently quite slack jawed and awestruck with the arrival of Facebook as a viable game platform. Extra fun mind blowing statistic: *Farmville has more registered users than Twitter accounts*. He then picks up momentum by outlying his applied theory for gamevertising, describing trends toward a life where everything you do somehow grants you XP.
