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Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead, Portal, and Team Fortress) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the addition of an Early Access section to Steam's library of over 2,000 titles. Steam Early Access titles allow the community to get involved early and play select titles during their development. The goal of Early Access is to provide gamers with the chance to "go behind the scenes" and experience the development cycle firsthand and, more importantly, have a chance to interact with the developers by providing them feedback while the title is still being created. …

9.5 http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/22/bioshock-infinite-pc-review

http://youtu.be/GTik6sYT_BE

omg wat is this. I want this to be out NAO. This looks really cool - and it's being developed by just one guy entirely. Just reading his news info makes me more interested. http://www.shiningrocksoftware.com/ Check it out, especially if the SC5 debacle made your soul sad.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/24/borderlands-2-level-cap-increase-announced http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/03/24/gearbox-teases-new-borderlands-2-dlc

http://youtu.be/8f3XJePYPpo

I thought this looked like a pretty neat mod. http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/03/19/garrys-mod-doom/ http://youtu.be/Q2yPfWXPIs0

http://www.doublefine.com/games/host_master_deux Very awesome and free!

Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading parallel lives. The girl has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a terrible monster--but she decides to fight back. Meanwhile, a boy on a spaceship is living a solitary life under the care of a motherly computer, but he wants to break free to lead adventures and do good in the world. Adventures ensue. Broken Age development began when we asked our community if they would help us create a classic-style adventure game without needing to rely on traditional publishers. It turns out they did. And ever since day one, 2 Player Productions has been recording the whole process…

Diablo 3 has two auction houses - one which deals in real money and another in in-game gold - through which players can buy and sell in-game items. It was expected, Wilson noted during a GDC talk (via Joystiq), that a legitimate auction feature would reduce the use of fraud and black market sales, and that only a small number of players would use them. The developer was wrong on both accounts, admitted Wilson. Almost every Diablo 3 player, he said, has used an auction house at some point, and over half of them on a regular basis. This "damaged item rewards", he added, and the pursuit of money has detracted from what should be the game's real motivator - its campaign. …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohrsbqmsKa0

http://fc3blooddragon.uk.ubi.com/index.php There was some artwork and an achievement list leaked a couple weeks ago for this so it's probably more then just an awesome april fools joke.

The video made me laugh my ass off to begin with, but the game itself is worth playing just for the levels they've given. I guess it's for the whole month of April. IT'S AMAZING. STOP THE GRAPHICS!!!

Third playthrough, Pearlescent weapons, enemies regen health, Slag is much stronger, more storage space, etc etc. GO GO GO! Today's an exciting day for Borderlands 2 -- a new update (containing the new Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, extra storage capacity and a variety of bug fixes) and the Ultimate Upgrade Pack (which allows characters to gain 11 additional levels, pick up powerful new loot and more) are rolling out now on Xbox 360 and Steam and very soon on PlayStation 3 as part of the next PlayStation Store update. Details on the level cap increase, new mode and update can be found below: Level Cap Increase and Other Changes Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode Details Border…

Update (3/18): Beginning today, Steam users can download the Skyrim 1.9 title update – featuring Legendary new features (see below) and new bug fixes. For console players out there, we’re hoping to release 1.9 later this month — we’ll keep you updated when we have specific dates. So what’s in the update? Check the changelog below… Skyrim 1.9 NEW FEATURES Legendary difficulty settingLegendary Skills – Skills of 100 can be made Legendary. This will reset the skill to 15, return its Perks and allow the skill to affect leveling again. This effectively removes the overall level cap.Bug fixes after the break… BUG FIXESGeneral memory and stability improvementsFixed issue with q…

Thirty Flights of Loving This first-person interactive short story will have you hooked from beginning to end and leave you wondering what just happened. Driven by a strong narrative and dizzying action, Thirty Flights of Loving (the sequel to Gravity Bone) will require you to piece together the story of a heist. However, we don’t want to give away too much, so you’ll just have to figure out the story yourself! Thirty Flights of Loving was nominated for the 2013 Independent Games Festival Excellence in Narrative and received Honorable Mentions for the Nuovo Award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Also includes the soundtrack! http://www.humblebundle.com/weekly …

Yet another F2P MMO. Ugh, we're just saturating the market at this point, but the idea of a solid kung fu MMO intrigues me a little. I may check it out a bit. Anyone try it while in beta?

https://www.themightyquest.com/en This game flew under my radar I suppose. Never heard about it until I read an article on RockPaperShotgun. It's a game from Ubisoft and from what I gather it's like some sort of weird hybrid of Dungeonland. The game is basically split into two parts, raiding other player's castles to get loot and experience while also maintaining and customizing your own castle full of traps and monsters to destroy any other players attempting to raid yours. Both your character AND your castle apparently level up seperately. Seems like it could be pretty awesome for a F2P game and I'm always looking to try stuff out. Here is the article from …

http://hexus.net/tech/news/software/54153-code-leaked-windows-81-reveals-boot-desktop-option/ Microsoft’s Windows Blue (Windows 8.1 for PCs) update may well bring with it an option to boot straight to the desktop. This built-in option would be popular with a vociferous section of PC users who see the new Start Screen as inferior to the old Start Menu and don’t even want to see it once per reboot. A Russian website called Microsoft Portal first revealed the “boot to desktop” code, which is found inside a system file called twinui.dll. These changes are seen in one of the recent leaked builds of Windows Blue/Windows 8.1. However if you have one of these test versions of …

A new mmo has caught my eye called WildStar looks like WoW but in a good way. Trailer TotalBis talk with Dev part 1 Part 2Like I said looks like WoW but scifi. I hope it does well.

What's up everyone! Long time, no see! So I finally got around to building myself a gaming rig. PK had linked me to another thread here, that ultimately helped me decide what to start with for Motherboard and processor. Everything I spend hours of research (google/youtube). This was my first ever build on my own and it was extremely intimidating, but after many hours and a broken bank account, I present to you my new beauty. Specs Cooler Master Storm Trooper Case ASUS Sabertooth Z77 I7 3770k Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler Coolermaster Silent Pro 80plus Gold (800w) 32 gb Corsair Vengeance Ram Gigabyte Geforce GTX670 Windforce LG DVD/Blu-Ray Combo SilverStone 3.5" Card Reade…

Publisher Deep Silver and Developer 4A Games today announced the official minimum, recommended and optimum PC specs for the upcoming First Person Shooter Metro: Last Light. The highly anticipated sequel to Metro 2033 will be available from May 14, 2013 in North America and May 17, 2013 across Europe for PlayStation®3, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, and Windows PC. Metro: Last Light is powered by 4A’s proprietary technology, the 4A Engine. Designed to take full advantage of the latest, most powerful PC hardware and DirectX 11 graphics cards, the 4A Engine also supports a host of bespoke NVIDIA® features including NVIDIA PhysX® and NVID…