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Today they introduced a controller with no sticks.

I'm intrigued. I'm tired of how expensive consoles are. I love PCs, and own lots of Steam games. Making them easier to play on my PC would be a plus, especially if said PC could stream my media and do all the other things I want.
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Yeah, so far nothing they have released has caused me to say, "No, that won't work."
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Someone hacked Valve or something to that effect.

Long story short, within are project crew listings, and apparently, there's both a HL3 crew and a L4D3 crew.

Been a long time since Valve released anything new...
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Noticed Valve started the process of getting the HL3 trademark going in Europe.
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You are now one out of 285,770 eligible beta candidates.
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Bioshock 2 leaving Games for Windows Live in favor of Steamworks.

Apparently, this is becoming a trend as other franchises are looking to do the same thing.

GFWL was a huge fuck you to gamers by Microsoft (along with Halo), so I take some joy in this news.
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Steam box controller.

That's nice...

Can I just use my mouse and keyboard?
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Post by Troy »

It um... looks like a sideways desktop computer.

And the control pad looks like it came from one of those knock-off PS2s.

not that i'm being critical




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Troy wrote:It um... looks like a sideways desktop computer.
So basically.... it looks like most desktop computers made prior to 1995 before towers came into fashion....
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The dates listed for the two upcoming sales are listed on the email as 27 November – 3 December (for the autumn/Thanksgiving sale) and 19 December – 2 January (for the winter/Christmas one.) Those are periods you could probably have roughly predicted if you’re a dedicated Steam sale watcher.
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The Autumn sale has begun.
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I hate it when places that are not Steam sell games. For some reason, I only want to buy from Steam. Or games that activate on Steam.

Winter sale in 2 days. Update your wishlists, people.
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You can register a lot of your non-Steam bought games through Steam. For example, I have LoL registered in Steam.
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I plugged in Homeworld to play through Steam a while back, but it isn't like it downloaded patches or anything for me.

That I recall.
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If it's available on Steam it will.
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Sale has begun, please contribute opinions on games worth buying if you have them. I'm winning $250 in a weightloss competition tomorrow, so I have a bit of free money to blow.
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Post by TPRJones »

Bioshock Infinite is 75% off today. That's a good one. Haven't tried the multiplayer, though.
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