Independent developer Brian Kramer from Subsoap is giving away 75,000 copies of his Faerie Solitaire game in total. The fantasy card game is currently valued at around $4, which means the value is estimated at around 300K in sales. That’s a lot of small change in generosity. Brian has set up 2 channels for game [...]

Valve is well known for its love of the modding community, and a new Steam feature introduced in the last few days has cemented them as one of the gaming industry’s best developers for modders. A new Steam feature called ‘Steam Collections’ allows users to group together mods that they’d like to download, and add [...]

When Half-Life 2 first came out, the game’s biggest online draw wasn’t its deathmatch multiplayer, but an unusual multiplayer physics mod known as Garry’s Mod. Designed to allow players to build their own environments, it was a major hit, selling out millions of copies when it eventually became widely available on Steam. For Portal players, [...]

The last week has been packed with rumors about a new gaming console, supposedly being made by one of the most innovative and interesting companies in the industry: Valve. But the Half-Life, Steam, and Portal developer has consistently rebuffed the claims and distanced itself from most of the online conjecture, choosing not to answer questions [...]

This month’s Forbes is out, and alongside the standard list of technology investors and corporate hotshots is someone that looks a little out of place: Gabe Newell. The founder of Valve, one of the world’s biggest game developers and online content providers, is now a billionaire thanks to smart investments in games like Portal and [...]

Seasoned gamers will no doubt remember the era when game developers hated publishers with a vengeance. Once regarded as creepy, artistically uninterested, profit-hungry corporations, most of the gaming community hated seeing a creative, interesting game get sucked up and ruined by the publisher.   Today, it couldn’t be more different. Digitalmindsoft, the developer of hit [...]

There’s a new Half-Life mod on the block, and it’s designed to scare the life out of you while you explore its environments. Yes, you read that right – it’s a mod for the original Half-Life, and not its mega-popular sequel. Cry of Fear is a survival horror mod for the original Half-Life that’s been [...]

For the better part of three decades, the gaming world has been controlled by large companies and developers with huge amounts of money to burn on their top titles. Million-dollar budgets and high expenses are far from uncommon – in fact, for a franchise game like Call of Duty or Battlefield, it’s unusual for development [...]

Postal III renews its own brand of tasteless shooter gameplay. The series best known for its mindless violence and gratuitous feel finally descends on Steam for a third iteration. Killing sprees are once more included in the title, as well as crude references to drugs, nudity, sex, and a character that looks like Ron Jeremy [...]

Iceberg Interactive has announced its continued support for their PC space games. First off, they released Armada 2526 Gold Edition, a pack containing the original as well as its ‘Supernova’ expansion. The game features 18 alien races in the known ‘4X’ turn-based strategy format. The ‘4X’ term comes from “explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate.” This [...]