Morgoth

Relic made previosuly another Akshun game, and it failed. Nice try from THQ to force Relic staffing up for an action game, and when it fails, possibly shut it down. Really nice from THQ. But no, I hope they'll just keep making good RTS games, maybe a new IP for a change? (Hey, I'd accept Homeworld 3 too for starters).

Maximum Pain 3 trailer debuting next Wednesday, September 14th

Professional voice acting can "conceil" mediocre writing very well. I mean just look at the latest Bioware games. Not exactly Shakespeare, but the characters are nonetheless very inconic and powerfully presented.

Morgoth only likes first person shooters. Dunno why he hangs around here though. Well that's just really utter nonsense.

It's not a loss, 'cause I'm not interested in TB combat games in the first place.

There's nothing wrong with 2D, just don't go all Dragon Age Legends or Anime style on us 'cause that causes eye cancer.

Press release here in English, plus packshot And why are you always so negative, Malcador?

Max Payne 3 coming out in March 2012 Holy moly. Mass Effect 3, XCOM, and now MP3 in March. They sure all got their release schedule right.

Activision likes to throw bodies at CoD franchise

Knock it off already, Kotick lover.

Space Marines demo was quite fun but I got that feeling that the gameplay gets really old really fast. So I think I'll pass.

Well they should just introduce an auction house then. The highest bidder gets the license, Valve takes a certain fee. Also, the seller at least has to pass 6 months or so before he's able to sell the game.

Honestly though, they might run into some technical challenges. Like, when you bought and downloaded a game, then sell it, it's not anymore in your games lists, but physically still on your hard disk. Unless the Steam client makes an auto-delete once the game gets removed from your list. But some "clever" people still could crack the client.

Like Valve hasn't taken risks before. If there's ever someone taking that extra leap, it's them.

Another Rumor: Timesplitters 4 announcement imminent? Maybe PC version too this time?

On digital distribution platforms (like Steam) keys are proof of ownership. So buying a steam cd-key amounts to buying a game. You just register it on your account and then can download the game from provided servers. Huh. Im honestly shocked that Steam doesnt have a master list of keys or some way of knowing that fraudulent keys are being used. They're not fraudulent. They buy the boxed version of the game, scan in the key and sell it. So its one-to-one or they buy a boxed version and sell that one key over and over? If its the former, I dont see a problem, but why would anyone buy a boxed copy then sell the key for cheaper than the boxed copy? No, one box, one key, one buyer. So they buy a couple hundred boxed versions from Latvia or Russia or other cheap countries, scan each key individually in and then sell it. I always wondered what they do with all these useless boxes and discs then. Maybe selling it back to the Russians?

Okay, I gave up on Blood 2 because that game has some seriously questionable level design. Back to Deus Ex I guess.

Trading "used" Steam games would be really cool though. But then all of a sudden a lot less gamers are gonna buy new games, resulting into huge losses for Valve. Gabe would have to take on a diet then.

I think the only way they could find out is actually telling Steam Support Staff about your key bought at those sites. Usually stupid people do that.

On digital distribution platforms (like Steam) keys are proof of ownership. So buying a steam cd-key amounts to buying a game. You just register it on your account and then can download the game from provided servers. Huh. Im honestly shocked that Steam doesnt have a master list of keys or some way of knowing that fraudulent keys are being used. They're not fraudulent. They buy the boxed version of the game, scan in the key and sell it.

Depend on how they were obtained. Many sites offer region specific versions (from Russia/Ukraine/Asia) which are much cheaper. The problem is selling them outside determined regions breaks terms of agreement so you never know if your cd-key won't get revoked. Once it's activated you can download it from anywhere. Valve doesn't stalk 30 million people on who got their keys from where. Still, a non-region locked copy of DX:HR for $24,99? Customer, meet competitve price, competitive price, meet Morg.

Halo 4 Creative Director leaves 343 Industries No ****. There's only so much Halo you can take before realising there's better stuff out there. I wonder if Microsoft will ever realise this before rendering the Halo franchise completely irrelevant.

Or you knock out some old lady in the mall, and buy it with money from her purse. Now now that would be illegal, don't you think?

This is just....really bad you know?

Or you just go to a key seller website and get it for like 1/3 of the price at launch.