I'm getting quite a bit of heat reading some article and Steam forums about the Modern Warfare 2 Steam release debacle. Let me state this once: release dates have nothing to do with Valve/Steam!

Steam is merely a platform that publishers like Activision can use to publish their games and have some protection from piracy. It is up to the publisher to decide when the game is released.

Activision. Not Steam.

So all this hate branching towards the digital distribution service is quite unwarranted.

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In a new interview over at tentonhammer, Craig Zinkievich reveals the following

Ten Ton Hammer: So when is beta happening then?
Craig: Definitely in 2009. It’s coming along really well. We’re moving into the home stretch now and looking at what we have, and figuring out where we think the holes are, and plugging those holes. We’re really starting to polish it; taking a step back and realizing we’ve got the core of everything in. Now what do we have to do to get this game out?

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In this edition's Ask Cryptik, a feature on the Star Trek Online community website where players pitch in questions, covers questions related to player character progression. As in how the user will boldly go forth and max out their character. Here's a few choice extracts.

"Sklarz: Are we limited to one branch? say I'm Engineering and I go down maintenance and then later I decide I also want to do some in Modification. Are we limited to one branch or can we go all out and get them all?
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Lonethar said: Damn it Jim!  Im a single player gamer!  Not a MMO Online gamer!

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It's that time again when the genius’s over at DirectX come out with their latest version and the graphics card manufacturers go mental with advertising slogans mentioning the need for the latest version. This time being DirectX 11.

 

The problem with this kind of upgrade and promoting it is that trying to sell it through screenshots doesn’t really work. It previously happened over DX10 with comparison shots showing how amazing DX10 was over DX9, but unless you had extra sharp vision it was hard …  More

I would have blogged about this sooner, but I've been waiting for more information. I'm extremely looking forward about this game. Set phasers to excited! Warp factor thrill! Beam me up anticipation! And so on, but my excitement if for several reasons:

1) I'm a huge, huge star trek fan. I'm bordering on being a full blown trekkie if it wasn't for the face my wife would make a disaproving face if I did anything remarkably geeky. My knowledge of most things trek wise is encyclopedic, let alone my D…  More

As someone who is a big fan of the settlers series this excites me. Although this time I do hope they add a little more "self sustaining colony" rather than focus on military. You can view the trailer in the link below.


Some of the new features include:

- Rich gameplay mechanics: The deep building and production systems both allow gamers to expand their kingdom village by village, sector by sector, optimising their creation by fine-tuning production chains and transport systems.

- Variety of gamepl…  More

From anyone who remembers it, my Left 4 Dead video - Take Me To The Hospital is now back up on youtube.

Enjoy!

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There are some damn good people working in the store department of steam, they just dropped the best Star Wars game onto steam, the entire series, for cheap!



The complete set includes:

Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Mysteries of the Sith
Star Wars Jedi Knight II : Jedi Outcast
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy

All for £14 (GBP, work it out for your area)

My personal favourite, Jedi Outcast, you didn't just get a lightsaber straight away, oh no. You …  More

It's well established the Playstation 3 has had a fairly lukewarm reception and the sales of the first console have reflected that. The launch was marred by a lack of decent gameplay titles, no backwards compatibility and high price. However now almost three years after it's initial launch, Sony's new "size 0" incarnation seems to have finally broken out to spontaneous applause.

With increasing news that sales of the Nintendo Wii are slowing down it's possible that the PS3 Slim is merely filling …  More

For the uninitiated, Black Mesa: Source is taking Half Life 1 over to the Orange Box Source engine. And whilst you might think this is fairly pointless, let me just show you this trailer.



Cleaned yourself up yet? Yeh, this looks so much better than the original Half Life, possibly better than Half Life 2. And according to the developers twitter, will be releasing this year. Who here now can't wait to find the snark bile and ram the gluon gun into the huge four legged testicle. Yeh me, that's who!

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