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Eternal Silence coming to Steam

December 24, 2008

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Eternal Silence is a Cinematic Multiplayer Space Mod built on the Source Engine and has been available to download and play for a while.  The great news is that an immanent release via Steam with build 3.2 of the game is due shortly.  Steam support for these fantastic mod teams is a great way to [...]

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Left 4k Dead

December 23, 2008

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Left 4k Dead is an impressive pure Java game  inspired by Left 4 Dead by Valve Software for the for the 2009 Java 4k Competition.  The rules are simple:  The final game package (byte code + resources) must be below or equal to 4096 bytes.
Made by Markus Persson

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Merry Christmas From Ozsource

December 23, 2008

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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas
and a safe Happy New Year

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EA gets Steamy: Loses Its DRM

December 20, 2008

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Something I thought would never happen considering the EA Download Service is a competitor but EA have finally embraced the Steam platform, ditching 3rd party DRM in the process.
Steam Launches Hit PC Games from EA
“EA is one of the industry’s largest publishers,” said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. “The EA titles coming to [...]

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Weekend Steal

December 20, 2008

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl is US$3.79 This weekend on Steam.
In 1986, the world’s worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station. Soviet authorities established a 30km ‘Exclusion Zone’ around this nuclear wasteland, but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor, obliterating all living things and causing the Zone’s boundaries to ripple outwards.
A [...]

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Duke Nukem Whenever Xmas Present

December 19, 2008

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Here are some new screenies of DNF with love from 3D realms.

Merry Christmas from 3D Realms
Or if you celebrate something besides Christmas, merry that, too. We at 3D Realms wish to extend a safe and happy holiday wish to all our site visitors. We hope your holiday season brings you something joyful, and something fulfilling. [...]

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Neotokyo Trailer

December 16, 2008

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Another remarkably polished source mod trailer has been released, this time it is the anime’ inspired NeoTokyo.
What is Neotokyo?

NEOTOKYO is a first person shooter that provides a visceral & realistic combat experience in a rich futuristic setting. It is greatly influenced by our admiration for Masamune Shirow (GHOST IN THE SHELL) and Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA), [...]

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Australian Internet content filtering – Cleanfeed

December 15, 2008

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What is Cleenfeed?
Clean-feed is the Australian government’s $70 million national Internet content filtering scheme, which will impose blanket filtering for all web connections at the Internet Service Provider (ISP) level.  There are two lists, a ‘child’ safe list which filters both illegal content and hardcore pornography and a second which users can ‘opt-out’ to which [...]

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What is Freeview?

December 13, 2008

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If you have seen the recent Freeview add on TV recently you would be forgiven for not having the faintest idea what it is all about.  The advert presents itself similar to that of TIVO, in that it could be a device that allows you to watch and record free to air TV with some extra [...]

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The Day the Earth Stood Still

December 13, 2008

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12.12.08 US Release

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