After what seems like an eternity of currency conversion, hidden sales tax (WHY?!) and obscure over-pricing, Valve have now adapted the Steam Store to show & charge in the native currency of the account (on the website store anyway). See the official forum post here to get the long & short of it, then simply […]
Author: Andrew Bryant
The resident PC elitist fanatic enthusiast, Andrew’s grim outlook on the industry provides CNS with a hefty dollop of its news content. Oh, and he has managed to convince Barry to let him review stuff too!
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The Team Fortress blog has spoken following a quiet spell as Left 4 Dead had Valve’s primary attention. First up, an update will be along very shortly that will alter/improve the gameplay for both the Engineer & Spy. Teleporters will be upgradeable to level 3. As the teleporter is upgraded, the cooldown will decrease. Dispensers […]
After being unceremoniously dumped by Activision Blizzard when ‘the merger’ happened, Double Fine were left without a publisher for their 3rd person guitar & demon-based hack-n-slash-em-up featuring Jack Black in the title role. Still no word on a PC release, but the game is almost certainly due on Xbox 360 & PS3 next fall. Press […]
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Minotaur China Shop Released
The much-anticipated long-awaited latest Minotaur-based crockery, retail & anger management sim from Flashbang Studios is now available through their Blurst games portal. Simply jump to the above link, install the Unity Web Player when prompted and play.
The promised Fallout 3 Editing tools, or the Garden of Eden Creation Kit if you want to keep it canon, have been released by Bethesda, along with the now customary Wiki (presumably to take all the fun out of discovering how easy it is to break the game irreparably!). More details have also been released […]
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Black Mesa footage
Plugin problems prevented us bringing this too you when it was released (so everyone has probably seen it everywhere anyway) but here’s the trailer for the long-awaited Half-Life 2 mod that does everything HL:Source should have. [youtube oGlhgVz5r6E] Purty…
Criterion Games have set a rough date (read – ‘February’) for the release of the PC iteration of their latest racing game. Branded the Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box (aping Valve there a little?), the game will arrive boxed with all the content currently released for the console versions along with the upcoming Party Pack. […]
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GOG surprises everyone with Arx Fatalis
Leave it up to GOG.com to surprise us again with more well priced DRM-free stuff. Firstly, they give us a game out of sequence (announce on Thursday for release the following Tuesday), which is Arx Fatalis, the game that eventually spawned the fun-but-flawed Dark Messiah. It’s also available on Steam for the same price, but […]
GTA IV finally hit Microsoft’s other gaming platform the other day. I use the term hit literally, since the landing was more of a crash as technical problems, connection woes, performance issues & missing textures are blighting a large number of users. Hit the jump for analysis, amongst other tit-bits…
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ZOMG! Atari News
In what i’m hoping will become a fairly irregular occurance (because supporting them is just not cricket), we’ve got some Atari news and it’s good news too!. Firstly, MCV are reporting that Ghostbusters, the recently-saved highly-anticipated stream crossing simulator which was dropped in the messy amalgamation of Activision & Vivendi, will hit retail around the […]