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Steam: Portal for free all weekend
Author: Smokey Beef
Posted:
16th September 2011 at 15:34
Category: Blog
Portal for Free
Steam have being running an initiative called ‘Learn With Portals’, which involves educators teaching using the Portal games to help their students understand physics and puzzle-solving capabilities. And it will also teach them that meddling with AI and human emotions is a bad idea.
As part of this scheme, Steam has announced that this weekend the first Portal game (i.e. the one without a ’2′ in the title and no Stephen Merchant voice work) will be free to download and play to your heart’s content.
If, somehow, you haven’t had chance to play Portal yet; do it. Do it now!
Portal will remain free of charge until September 20th.
Batman: Arkham City UK exclusive pre-orders
Author: Smokey Beef
Posted:
13th September 2011 at 10:14
Category: Blog
It’s too easy to lose track of which retailer is offering what pre-order bonuses these days. It seems like it’s impossible to get all the content for a game now without placing 10 different pre-orders, thanks to the fact every shop seems to be given their own exclusive* deal. The cheapest deals at the moment are at ShopTo.net, where it is £34.95 for both the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game and £31.85 for the PC version.
* It’s worth noting that the term ‘exclusive’ tends to mean ‘timed exclusive’ now – so you probably can get all the content if you’re willing to wait a little bit longer
To lighten the load for you, I’ve come up with a breakdown of the exclusive pre-order incentives currently being offered for Batman: Arkham City in the UK.
Tesco
£39.70 (PS3/360)
Joker’s Carnival Challenge Map pack (with Joker Steelbook Edition)
ShopTo.net
£34.85 to £59.86 (PS3/360) or £31.85 to £34.85 (PC)
1970s Batman Suit – Alternative Batman character skin
GAME / Gamestation
£39.99 (PS3/360) or £29.99 (PC)
Robin Edition – Robin playable character, extra character skins and 2 challenge maps
This is by no means an exhaustive list; if you know of any more exclusive pre-order bonuses let me know in the comments and I’ll get them added to this page.
Battlefield 3: Back to Karkand – Wake Island concept art
Author: Smokey Beef
Posted:
19th May 2011 at 13:03
Category: News
It seems that the inevitable return of Wake Island in the latest iteration of the Battlefield series is to have a darker twist.
Black Ops PC patch available on Steam
Author: Smokey Beef
Posted:
12th November 2010 at 12:34
Category: News
A patch has been released for the PC version of Call of Duty: Black Ops, which will be automatically downloaded when you login to Steam. The patch attempts to fix some (not all) of the problems that are being reported en masse throughout the internet since the game’s release.
Left 4 Dead 1/2: The Sacrifice is out!
Hi there,
As you probably know L4d 1/2′s most recent DLC “The Sacrifice” which documents the story of the original cast to the point of “The Passing” in L4D 2′s DLC is now out!
