Recently there's been chatter that Valve — the company behind the massively popular gaming service Steam — has been considering getting into the hardware business. Specifically, there have been rumors that the company has been toying with the idea of creating a proper set-top console which could potentially pose a threat to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
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When Assassin's Creed III hits store shelves on October 30, 2012, players may be surprised to find the series making the jump from its traditional setting of Renaissance Europe to Revolutionary War-era America.
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Sure, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Minecraft are both pretty popular (to put it mildly), so if you combine both games into one, you’ll have the greatest game ever made, right?
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Battlefield 3 players have reached a boiling point, as a major community website has given Electronic Arts and DICE, the publisher and developer of the recent shooter, an ultimatum, asking the two companies to communicate with their fans in a proper manner.
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BioWare has cooked up an interesting scheme to promote Mass Effect 3's upcoming launch. They're going to load up six weather balloons with free copies and set them loose across the world.
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Steam has prepared a massive surprise for its users this weekend, as it will allow everyone to try out the multiplayer mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 for free.
Valve has always pleased its Steam users by offering lots of sales and special promotions.
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Ubisoft today revealed the release date for their upcoming Ghost Recon title, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Future Soldier. The squad-focused military shooter will launch in North America on May 22, 2012 and in Europe on May 24, 2012. Additionally, a PC version of the game was confirmed for release at a later date.
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After it was revealed that games developer CD Projekt had been sending cash settlement letters to Internet users based on flimsy IP address-based anti-piracy evidence, this week the company decided to end their campaign. Today TorrentFreak reveals the names of many other famous games companies conducting almost identical operations – “Send us cash settlements,” they tell their targets, “…or else…”
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It looks like you can officially put any hopes of a PlayStation 4 announcement at E3 to rest. In a roundtable with reporters at CES, Sony's Kaz Hirai responded to a question about recent comments attributed to gaming division head Andrew House by stating that "Andy is absolutely right in that we are not making any announcements at E3."
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It all started with a question over a simple game accessory. Now, the story has propelled one PR firm into a spotlight so fast, it has been extremely hard to keep track of all the updates. It should be a PR firms dream come true, but it has become exactly the opposite.
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Apparently the UK's Ministry of Defence has some pretty unexciting war simulators. So unexciting, in fact, that the MoD's Science and Technology lab - the folks responsible for managing said simulators - is looking to the likes ofBattlefield and Call of Duty to help up its game.
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One eagle eyed member from GAF has found the Linkedlin profile of a Crytek employee who revealed that, RYSE has been moved to the next-gen Xbox. Yes, you heard that right. We have the screenshots as well, in case the information is removed form the profile.
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Modern Warfare 3, the first-person shooter video game, passed $1 billion in sales in just 16 days, according to Activision Blizzard, the game’s distributor. Modern Warfare 2, an earlier installment of the game, took 60 days to reach the same milestone.
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