December 19, 2011
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Beta Review
Ah yes, good old Counter-Strike. No other shooter series has been as popular and competative for as long as Counter-Strike has. Well, as many of you know by now, Valve announced a new, long overdue, addition to the Counter-Strike series, Counter-Strike:Global Offensive. Immediately so many rumors came out about the game and how true to Counter-Strike it would end up being and so on. All anyone had were a few short videos showing some limited gameplay to stare at and formulate opinions on. There were some details given out such as the fact that the game is being made for XBox and PS3 as well as PC, and that they want to make it console friendly to draw in a new crowd. I think this definitely scared a lot of the old school CS players as so often when aRead more…
July 18, 2011
Valve Complete Giveaway
In celebration of Valve and all the great games they have given to the us over the years we have decided to host a giveaway in honor of this for all of our current and future members. We will be giving away the ‘Valve Complete Pack’, for those of you who don’t know what that means let me tell you. The “Valve Complete Pack” contains every single Valve game including Left 4 Dead 2, Portal 2, Half-Life 2, and many more. To see a complete list of games check the list at the bottom of the page. The contest ends July 31st, 2011. You may now be asking yourself what do I have to do to get qualified for this fantastic give away. Read below! 1. Sign up on the website here at www.thegamersblog.com. If you are already a member please proceedRead more…
July 11, 2011
Digital Distribution… Competition Bad for Business?
A war is brewing on the internet for your money, support, and loyalty (no it’s not the PC vs Console war that you see flames on a daily basis) and the outcome could have dire consequences for the gaming industry. That war is the supremacy over Digital Distribution. Currently there are several key players in the industry, Steam (Valve Software), Impulse Driven (GameStop), Direct2Drive and GoG. Steam is by far the most popular and largest of the group by several times however several companies are looking into providing their own services instead of selling them through a vendor and competitor like Steam. We often hear the phrase “competition is better for consumers” and in many cases this is true but in the case of Digital Distribution is this truly the case? Consider this, the majority of major title games can be hadRead more…
June 16, 2011
Crysis 2 Gone From Steam
Steam recently removed Crysis 2 from it’s online store. This is rather suprising considering that Crysis 2 is one of it’s top selling titles. The game was apparently removed a few days ago when some steam users who frequent the site realized that it was no longer available for sale. EA released a statement saying ” It’s unfortunate that Steam has removed Crysis II from their service. This was not an EA decision or the result of any action by EA. Steam has imposed a set of business terms for developers hoping to sell content on that service — many of which are not imposed by other online game services. Unfortunately, Crytek has an agreement with another download service which violates the new rules from Steam and resulted in its expulsion of Crysis II from Steam. Crysis II continues toRead more…
December 22, 2010
Steam Has Over 1000 Games on Sale
Steam has over 1000 games on sale during the holiday weekend. Steam is offering discounts on almost every title and megapack in their arsenal. Some of the titles on sale are Borderlands, Left 4 Dead 2, Bad Company, Mafia, Mafia 2, Fear, Prince of Persia, Xcom, X3 and many others. Their packs are also on sale and some of them are up to 75% off. This means for around $40.00 — $70.00 you can get between 12 and 20 titles. Valve also announced that you will sometimes get additional discounts depending on the games you already own. For example lets say you want to buy portal and it’s already 5o% off but if you own Half Life 2, which you do… right… you get an additional 10% off. Steam detects that you own the title and applies the addtional discount. ValveRead more…
July 26, 2010
Banning Punishment = Free Game
This past weekend many Steam users were unfortunately banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. What was the cause you ask? Nothing more than a Valve screw up. Valve’s anti-cheat software banned random users for no other reason than an error. In response to the banning errors, President of Valve Gabe Newell, came out and said it was a mistake and apologized. As part of the apology Valve restored the banned accounts and gave out two free copies of Left 4 Dead 2. One for the user and one to give to a friend. They also sent out an apology mail along with the games which you can read here: Hello,Recently, your Steam account was erroneously banned from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. This was our mistake, and I apologize for any frustration or angst it may have caused you. TheRead more…
June 25, 2010
Steam Offering More Insane Deals
Right now Steam is running it’s Independence day special. You can get games from almost every publishers at highly discounted rates. Some of the games include Bioshock II $14.99, The Witcher: Directors Cut $6.99, Counter-Strike: Source $6.99 and many many others. I’m glad to see that Steam is helping to fight against piracy by offering so many great deals. Steam is also offering specials on not only the games but publish packs. Right now you can get the THQ complete pack which includes all of the Dawn of War series, Company of Heros series, Stalker, Metro 2033, and several others for only $50? I have bought several games already at these low prices. Steam tends to hurt my bank book quite often. I suspect that over the next few days that they are going to have even more amazing specials. Read more…
April 25, 2010
Steam Client Beta : It’s Just Better
Steam is working on a new version of it’s steam client. Beta participation is optional and currently anyone can join in. I had a chance to sit down and play with the new Steam Beta today and I have to say that I am pretty impressed. There are several new features or “reinventions of the wheel” that I am really enjoying. Instead of telling you everything that has changed I’m going to give you the major highlights of what I think makes this new steam release better. The first thing that really stood out to me in this beta is the changing of the color schemes and overall feel of the client. Most of the greens that were in the previous version are gone. The client it now predominantly black and gray. It looks sleeker, it feels more modern and it looksRead more…
March 28, 2010
LFD 2 DLC Delayed
LFD 2 DLC Delayed
March 23, 2010
Steam Deals!!!!@!@!#
FYI steam has some good deals this week. You can currently get left 4 dead 2 for 50% off. You can also get the new Battlefield: Bad Company 2 squad pack for 150 dollars. So basically your getting 4 games for the price of 3! Go get em guys!!!
