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13 Million People are Steam-ing

13 Million People are Steam-ingIf you want proof that the digital distribution of games has become big business, here it is: Steam, one of the leading game distribution platforms, has announced that it’s signed up a staggering 13 million users.

Owned by the game developer Valve, Steam was originally intendedas a method for updating Valve’s multiplayer games. But it’s taken on a life of its own, and these days Steam not only carries over 150 PC games, including Half Life 2, it also has updates to some 2,500 more.

According to Valve co-founder, Gabe Newell, all this is a sign of how important digital distribution of games has become.  Read more...

The Digital Living Room: What?s coming from Microsoft

Now, this is something you typically don’t get from Apple: a vision of what the company plans to enable in the future. This is because Microsoft has a massive number of hardware partners they need to convince to get behind their initiatives, while all Apple needs to do is have Steve Jobs say “jump,” and Apple hardware says “how high”. But the result is that Microsoft can touch many more things much more quickly than Apple, or any other existing single vendor, which means they actually have more say on what the future may hold.  Read more...

Half-Life 2 Source Theft Details Emerge

According to GameIndustry.biz the primary hacker is German, but denies actually stealing the valuable source code.

“While it was confirmed last month that arrests had been made in a number of countries in relation to the source code theft – which was at one point implied to be the cause of the severe delay to the game’s completion, although Valve has since confirmed that they were not close to finishing the game at the time – no detailed information about the suspects or the case against them was released.  Read more...

Half-Life 2 Code Thieves Nabbed

Arrests have been made in several countries related to the break-in to Valve’s network, theft of the Half-Life 2 source code, and release of the source code on the Internet, the company said.

“Within a few days of the announcement of the break-in, the online gaming community had tracked down those involved,” said Gabe Newell, Valve’s CEO. “It was extraordinary to watch how quickly and how cleverly gamers were able to unravel what are traditionally unsolvable problems for law enforcement related to this kind of cyber-crime.”  Read more...

ATI Intros Mobility Radeon 9700

The MOBILITY RADEON 9700 was unveiled today at a product launch gala event in Taipei, Taiwan.

As the first mobile graphics provider to support Microsoft DirectX9.0, ATI has a proven track record of pushing the envelope in mobile visual processing. The addition of low-k extends the company’s lead in notebook graphics innovation, providing key enhancements to enable the industry’s highest mobile clock speeds while reducing power consumption. MOBILITY RADEON 9700 is a robust solution that fully leverages DirectX9.0 capabilities to provide the most powerful mobile graphics solution on the market today.

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ATI Launches New Mobile Radeon 9700

From ATI’s press release:

ATI Technologies Inc.today set a new industry standard with the introduction of the first low-k based graphics solution for notebook PCs. The MOBILITY RADEON 9700 was unveiled today at a product launch gala event in Taipei, Taiwan.

As the first mobile graphics provider to support Microsoft DirectX9.0, ATI has a proven track record of pushing the envelope in mobile visual processing. The addition of low-k extends the company’s lead in notebook graphics innovation, providing key enhancements to enable the industry’s highest mobile clock speeds while reducing power consumption. MOBILITY RADEON 9700 is a robust solution that fully leverages DirectX9.0 capabilities to provide the most powerful mobile graphics solution on the market today.  Read more...

Half-Life 2 source leaks

Development studio Valve Software has seen the entire source code to Half-Life 2 – including source from some of the company’s middleware partners – leaked to the Internet following a breach in the company’s security.

The source code bundle includes none of the game’s artwork or levels; however, the entire source code for the game itself, its graphics engine and the Havok physics engine, Miles sound system and various other pieces of middleware is being distributed widely as a 30mb zip file.  Read more...

ATI intros RADEON 9800 XT, RADEON 9600 XT

The RADEON 9800 XT, the most powerful visual processor available, takes the award-winning RADEON 9800 architecture, the first and only to feature eight full pixel pipes, and makes it even faster. Shipping immediately, the graphics cards will feature 256MB of graphics memory and a wide, 256-bit memory interface. In addition to the brute-force capabilities of the visual processor, the architecture is efficiently designed to process instructions in parallel, maximizing performance. The RADEON 9800 XT will be available in stores and online in October from ATI and its board partners. ATI’s retail product will have a suggested retail price of $499.  Read more...

Half-Life 2 to set new graphics standard

Ensuring that the long-awaited sequel to one of the industry’s most groundbreaking games will not only live up to five years of anticipation, but will also give gaming enthusiasts a reason to fastentheir seatbelts in front of their PCs, Microsoft DirectX 9.0 will bring scientist Gordon Freeman and his creeping, shooting alien nemeses back to life — with the vibrant graphics and enhancedgameplay needed for a truly immersive experience — with the release of  “Half-Life 2″ by Valve Corp.

“We see ‘Half-Life 2′ as a new benchmark for the type of amazing experiences that can be delivered on the Windows® platform, and DirectX 9.0 is clearly serving as the catalyst for the development of these state-of-the-art games,” said Dean Lester, general manager of Windows Gaming and Graphics at Microsoft Corp. “‘Half-Life 2′ emphasizes the trend we are already seeing: Games for Windows now deliver the most cutting-edge technology and immersive entertainment available anywhere.”

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Valve reveals Half-Life 2 subscription plan

In an email, later confirmed as authentic, posted to forums on Half-Life2.net, and a later follow-up on the forum thread, Valve boss Gabe Newell confirmed that the company intends to offer an optional subscription which will grant members free additional content for Half-Life 2, delivered over the Steam digital distribution system.

This content would include Valve’s official modifications such as Counter-Strike 2 and Team Fortress 2, and any other content released officially for the game during its life span – which will also be made available to non-subscribers for an additional fee.  Read more...

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