Spore finally on Steam, SecureROM free!

via Slashdot
Will Wright fans rejoice! If you’ve been waiting to buy the long awaited ‘life, the universe, and everything’ simulator because of EA’s draconian DRM that limits the players to only three installs, your wait is now over.  Spore, along with other ‘hit’ EA titles have been released on Valve’s ever-growing Steam platform.   The [...]

10 Years of Half-Life feature – Mod DB

The fellas over at ModDB.com posted this video celebrating a decade of Half-Life mods. It’s pretty good, be sure to click on the link and give them a digg as well!

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Coulton’s “Still Alive” Free Rock Band Download tomorrow for Xbox, later for Sony

via Game|Life
Owners of the hit multiplayer rhythm/karaoke hybrid Rock Band will get a special April Fool’s treat tomorrow. Well those that have it on Xbox 360 that is.
The infamous end song from last fall’s break out hit Portal will be available for download from the newly renovated Rock Band music store, absolutely free of [...]

Kim Swift and Erik Wolpaw close GDC 2008 with packed house

The final session at the 2008 Game Developer’s Conference was also arguably the dopest.

It was a post-mortem on the last October’s break out hit, Portal. The talk was headed by lead designer Kim Swift and head writer Erik Wolpaw (who you may remember from his work on Psychonauts and the now defunct website OldManMurray.com, [...]

Valve, “Source may be possible on Wii”

via GoNintendo
During an interview at the Game Developer’s Conference this week, Valve’s Doug Lombardi remarked how the scalability of the Source Engine could allow for possible development on Wii. He also mentioned that Valve is interested in developing for the platform.
This would be pretty sweet. I love Valve’s games, and they have one [...]

“STILL ALIVE” Rock Band DLC Confirmed!

via Kotaku
At Valve’s GDC shindig Wednesday night, nerdrock superstar Jonathan Coulton and Rock Band developer Harmonix made a special announcement: Still Alive, the smash hit end song from the critically acclaimed Valve release Portal, is going to be made available for download for play in Rock Band!
The way they did it was super awesome as [...]

GDC Day 3, or HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF CRAP!

What a 180 today is compared to yesterday! The general population here at the Moscone Center has seem to have tripled, it’s like swimming though a sea of limbs over here! I’ve run in to some technical difficulties this morning when I forgot to pull out the USB chord out of my camera [...]

Valve announces Steamworks

The development powerhouse Valve, responsible for the Source engine, the Steam content delivery service and online gaming community, and more recently The Orange Box, has announced Steamworks, a “complete suite of publishing and development tools” soon to be available to publishers and developers alike, free of charge.
You see, this is what I love about Valve. [...]