Friends. Family. Gainful employment. A chance to dig into a big, juicy turkey with all the fixins and (fingers crossed) actually enjoy a full eight hours of sleep courtesy of a Tryptophan coma. These are tops on the list of things we’re truly thankful for this holiday season. But being the good consumerists and high-tech newshounds we are, we also have to give props where it’s really due – to all the shiny new gadgets and lifesaving technologies that let us squeeze 63 hours of fun and productivity into each and every day.
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13 Million People are Steam-ing
If 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.
Online Console Gaming Popularity Increasing
Broadband Internet access, meanwhile, has helped bring connectivity to consoles that wasn’t even an option two years ago. Now, 750,000 players use Xbox Live, each paying $50 a year to be able to play against people elsewhere and download updates.
Sony says it has sold 2.4 million of its $40 network adapters that enable Playstation online gaming, through broadband or a dial-up connection.
Read the full story at the Star Tribune.
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge review
Quote from the review at Firing Squad.com:
“It’s not an innovative wonder that will blow your socks off, but the new Crimson Skies succeeds in providing an extremely well executed and polished dogfighting experience both off and online.
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge is easily one of the better Xbox games of the year and among the very best if you have Xbox Live.”
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