NPD Posts PC Sales Figures
Fri Jul 23rd 2010 at 3:53am by Riven
Finally some mainstream evidence to say the PC gaming market isn't dead after all, they're just ahead of the curb, once again.
Playing catch-up, the NPD Group finally made an effort to research the online transactions of PC gaming downloads. The numbers and listings are quite enlightening.
Retail sales actually declined 23% in the U.S. as download sales increase, which includes such sales as microtransactions and mobile game sales. But some estimated 2.1 billion dollars are probably overlooked due to the lack of social networking giant Facebook's online games, which if factored in, would push PC download sales even further.
Of course also listed are the top five digital retailers in the industry. Can you guess who's on top?
Read all about it in Gamasutra's article.
Also in other news, PCGamer Magazine figured out how to play Valve's Alien Swarm in first-person mode. It's only a matter of entering three console variables, and you're good to go! Read about that on PCGamer.com if you're interested. They include a video too.
Alien Swarm Free on Steam
Mon Jul 19th 2010 at 12:28pm by Riven
Alien Swarm is a new game from Valve That is completely free, and available on Steam starting today.
Valve describes the game best:
The game originally was a mod for UT 2004, and the team was hired by Valve about two years ago to work on L4D 2, Portal 2, and a new version of Alien Swarm on the side. You may read about the UT mod on Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Free Co-Op for everyone!
Mon Jul 19th 2010 at 12:28pm by Riven
Alien Swarm is a new game from Valve That is completely free, and available on Steam starting today.
Valve describes the game best:
Quoting Valve
Alien Swarm is a game and Source SDK release from a group of talented designers at Valve who were hired from the Mod community. Available free of charge, the game thrusts players into an epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics. With your friends, form a squad of four distinct IAF Marine classes. Plan your attack using an unlockable arsenal of weapons with countless loadout configurations against a wide variety of aliens. Blaze your way through an overrun, off-world colony, eradicating the alien infestation in environments ranging from the icy planet’s surface, to a subterranean lava-flooded mining facility.
- Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
- Complete game code and mod tools
- Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
- Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
- 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
- Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
- 64 achievements
- Tile-based map generation tool
- Powered by Source and Steam
- Tactical, 4 player co-op action game with a top-down perspective
- Complete game code and mod tools
- Unlock persistent items by gaining levels
- Over 40 weapons and equipment with countless loadout configurations
- 4 unique classes and 8 unique characters
- Matchmaking, Steam Cloud, Steam Stats
- 64 achievements
- Tile-based map generation tool
- Powered by Source and Steam
The game originally was a mod for UT 2004, and the team was hired by Valve about two years ago to work on L4D 2, Portal 2, and a new version of Alien Swarm on the side. You may read about the UT mod on Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Free Co-Op for everyone!
The Art Pass Competition
Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 6:59pm by Riven
Another Team Fortress 2 mapping competition arrives to us today from a collaboration between Valve and TF2maps.net. The objective is to take an "in-the-works" raw Valve map and give it an art pass. You need to detail and optimize it into a playable state.
The competition started today and ends Saturday September 25th 2010 at 11:00am UTC. Custom content is welcome, but source files are required, so be sure to get permission from the artist. Also, no collaboration allowed. Visit the rules page to learn more about it.
The winning map will be made an official TF2 map, and released in a mandatory update for the game. Now is your chance to contribute!
You can read the introduction for it and get the download on the Official TF2 Blog.
Fri Jul 16th 2010 at 6:59pm by Riven
Another Team Fortress 2 mapping competition arrives to us today from a collaboration between Valve and TF2maps.net. The objective is to take an "in-the-works" raw Valve map and give it an art pass. You need to detail and optimize it into a playable state.
The competition started today and ends Saturday September 25th 2010 at 11:00am UTC. Custom content is welcome, but source files are required, so be sure to get permission from the artist. Also, no collaboration allowed. Visit the rules page to learn more about it.
The winning map will be made an official TF2 map, and released in a mandatory update for the game. Now is your chance to contribute!
You can read the introduction for it and get the download on the Official TF2 Blog.
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[download] Abandoned Inspiration (photos)
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These are a collection of over 450 photos taken by someone else, from a latent online portfolio over four years ago. The collection was so good, I downloaded them all and am uploading them here. If you need "Abandoned Inspiration" for mapping, these should help! (file is 18.6 MB)
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Hey guys and girls been a while since my last upload and I know it is disappointing for all of you who were hoping for my mod. But I'M BACK and here is a neat little prefab it is a military flatbed truck.<br /><br />Thanks go to Yak_Fighter for the original flatbed and gun which I modified. Please comment.
update: Download file is now fixed.
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