Computer and Video Games quotes comments Steve Gibson made at the London Games Festival about the competition between Valve's Steam service and Microsoft's Games for Windows, where the Gearbox marketeer said the two companies are "building silos" which "hurt the PC industry." Gibson implores them to "play nice," and says "Our big concern right now is that these silos are being built. Everybody's separating out and it's really... as a developer who just wants gamers to be able to play games together, it's frustrating right now. Things like that are hurting the PC industry for gamers. This is frustrating for everybody right now." Thanks joao.
Frictional Games has word that the recent version 1.0.1 patch for
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is now available for the Mac and Linux editions of the survival/horror game, offering the same fixes as the original Windows update. Respective details and downloads can be found on their
Mac support page and their
Linux support page. Thanks
Ant via
LinuxGames.
The
Alien Arena developers announce release plans for
Alien Arena 2011, saying the next version of the freeware shooter is expected later this fall, and will offer "a load of improvements such as ragdoll physics, new content, and much more!"
Mod DB has a preview of the new version with gameplay details, screenshots, and teaser trailers.
Good Old Games interview on GameZone talks with GOG.com's Marcin Iwinski about this service that offers older games freed of DRM and updated to run on modern systems. They discuss the site's hoax shutdown (which he calls a "game" rather than a "joke" in a bit of world-class hair splitting), how their re-launch has gone, what the future holds, and more. The interviewer also asks about the possibility that
Sam & Max will join their catalog, and was told they are working on it. This conversation was conducted prior to Iwinski's
resignation from CD Projekt, so that topic goes unaddressed.
The
William D. Volk interview on Obsolete Gamer talks with this old school developer about his career in gaming, starting in the QA department at Avalon Hill before going on to design his own games, work on the Philips CD-I and
Return to Zork, his advocacy of online gaming long before the rest of the industry caught the fever, and more.
Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata via
Eurogamer: "Even with piracy, as long as we can create products which can attract attention from many consumers and which can greatly entertain them, that software can make it to the number one position of the hit software sales chart." Thanks Mike Martinez via
Joystiq.
Here's the list of the top 10 bestselling games on
Steam for the week according to Valve:
- Left 4 Dead Bundle
- Sid Meier's Civilization V
- Dead Rising 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Resurgence Pack
- Team Fortress 2
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- F1 2010
- Killing Floor Bundle
Happy 10/10/10, which is one of those neat date dealies that works the same in either typical notation. Here's hoping it's a perfect 10.
R.I.P.:
Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam airport at 70. Thanks Mike Martinez.
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