In continuation to their “Big Picture” mode, Valve recently announced their first hardware project in partnership with Xi3, codenamed “Piston” or simply “Steam Box”. Still in development stage, the Steam Box intends to play a game through Steam running high spec console on big HD TVs. Xi3′s own 7-series system is the major inspiration behind the Steam Box, hence the ... Read More »
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Steam Autumn Sale is live – Mega Discounts on your Favourite Games
With a whole bunch of games already out apart from an already massive live-up of games coming up, we’d take it that you’re probably involved with some game or other, or even may have a line up of upcoming games to play. Well, if you dont belong to that demograph, hell, even if you do, Steam’s Autumn Sale has kicked ... Read More »
Portal: No Escape, a short film based on Portal
Just came across this interesting piece in PC Gamer. Dan Trachtenberg, an indi film director, has made a nice short film based on the popular game Portal. The movie’s pretty sick, with nice Portal effects and and an accurate Portal ‘vibe’, with an actress playing Chell the protagonist. Its a nice concept film, and done pretty neatly considering it just might ... Read More »
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Screenshots of Every Race
The Bethesda Blog recently posted screenshots of the faces of every race in the game, and believe me, they look bloody damn good, and most importantly, very original and true to its roots. I am very impatiently waiting for Skyrim, as the previous installment, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion was one beautiful gaming experience. So here we are, screenshots of ... Read More »
Gamescom 2011 : The party and all things that come with it
Its Gamescom time! Gamescom is Europe’s answer to America’s E3, celebrating video games, in as big as a way as possible. The 2011 version of Gamescom is being held in Cologne (or as the Krauts call it, Koln), Germany and has a lot to offer and to satisfy us gamers’ appetites. I did spend a week in Cologne last year ... Read More »
Is PC Gaming, as we know it, dying because of Facebook?
This post is exactly about what its title says. Is PC Gaming, as we know it, dying because of Facebook? Its a strong statement to make, but I’m saying it with a blunt tone, because its kinda depressing. I was reading this article on Kotaku, which had the heading “If This Is How PC Gaming Will Live, Maybe It Should ... Read More »
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