Not those kind of loads you sick bastards. Loads of PC games. Over 40 titles in all are being made available for download.
Assassin’s Creed is now available for pre-purchase via Steam. In addition, Ubisoft is bringing many of its award-winning brands to Steam, including games from the Tom Clancy series, the Heroes of Might & Magic® series, the IL-2 Sturmovik collection, Far Cry®, and much more. Digital packs of many of these franchises will also be made available in the coming weeks.
Like I said before, if you’re into PC gaming and you don’t have Steam, you need to get with the program. Buying games at the store is so 1986.
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March 18, 2008 – 10:00 am
Following up with Atari joining the Steam camp, Epic will be putting a large portion of their games onto Steam.
The Epic hits now available on Steam include Epic’s debut classic, Unreal Gold, as well as Unreal II: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series of games, including the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over one million copies to date.
All of Epic’s titles available on Steam are offered in the Unreal Deal Pack, an incredible value for just $59.95. And, to celebrate the launch, all of Epic’s games on Steam are available for 10% off their regular price.
I think we’ll be seeing a ton of Epic games now and in the future on Steam, except Gears of War. Since Microsoft has the publishing rights, I have a feeling it’ll be sticking to Games for Windows Live. A shame, really, since Steam is much better.
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Looks like Atari has no problem being fashionably late to the party, as they’ve announced they’ll be bringing an arsenal of PC games to Steam. Some games like RollerCoaster Tycoon are available now, with bigger titles like Neverwinter Nights coming soon.
“Atari is excited to team up with Steam and deliver great games through a digital platform that our fans have asked for,” said Nizzi Renaud, Vice President of Online Entertainment, Atari, Inc. “We look forward to making an extensive collection of games, across many genres, available to Steam’s extensive, globally-connected community.”
Steam really is the bees knees as far as PC gaming goes. The more companies that jump onboard, the better for everyone in the community.
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In case you don’t want to spend all that cash on The Orange Box just to play Portal, you’re in luck. Starting April 9th, Valve will be selling each part of the game on Steam.
Portal will run you $19.99, while Half-Life 2: Episode 2 and Team Fortress 2 will run you $29.99 each. Considering The Orange Box costs $50, it’s pretty steep for each one if that’s the route you want to take.
Sorry console players, this won’t apply to you. If you want Portal or Team Fortress 2, you’ll have to shell out the $60 for the game on your Xbox 360 or PS3.
[via CVG]
February 14, 2008 – 1:00 pm
At 7pm ET tonight, you might want to fire up your Steam client if you own Team Fortress 2 on your PC. A pretty big, and free, update is coming your way. Here’s some the things can expect from the update:
- Plenty of updates to the Source Engine, including fixes for networking, graphics, and player statistics, plus improvements to Source TV for tournament viewing.
- Three of the currently available maps (Dustbowl, Granary, CTF_Well) will see updates for enhanced performance and gameplay.
- A new map, Badlands, a new map that pushes control-point gameplay onto vertical landscapes.
Did we mention all this is free? So if The Orange Box on PC is your thing, start prepping your shooting finger and that FPS mouse.
No word on console patches or updates for this content. Requests to Valve for this information were not immediately returned.
[via Steam]
