Amiga and Gameloft games coming to Windows Phone and Windows 8
My weekly series that covers the best new Windows 8 apps in a given week over at Betanews has been quite depressing the last two weeks.
Latest Games News
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Steam: a switch from offline to online mode does not require a restart anymore
Most of my PC gaming activities have moved to Steam in the past two or so years.
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Steam: How to protect yourself against phishing and scamming
The push to virtual items in games such as Team Fortress 2 or Dota 2 has led to an increase in phishing and scamming activities on the Steam gaming platform.
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How to earn money on Steam
I spend more than $1500 Dollars on games in the past nine years on Steam alone according to Steam Gauge which I reviewed yesterday.
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Steam Gauge: find out how much you have played and spend on Steam
If you are using the Steam platform you may know that it keeps track of all the games you have played and for how long you have played them.
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Steam slow? Try these two tips to speed up browsing
The Steam Summer Sale is in full swing and while I personally think that it is severely lacking in comparison to previous sales, it manages to drive Steam's res
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Miss no Steam Sale offers with mobile apps
The Steam Summer sale is a much anticipated yearly event on Steam where nearly every game in the service's catalog is offered for a discount.
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How to deal with annoying Steam Group notifications
I'm not using Steam's Group feature a lot.
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How to download and play games on Steam simultaneously
Many Steam users do not know that it is possible to download and play Steam games simultaneously.
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Microsoft axes Xbox One 24-hour online checks, used game policy
Both Sony and Microsoft are preparing to launch new gaming systems later this year with Sony looking like the clear winner up until now because it did not make
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PS4 vs Xbox One: which is better?
Now that both Sony and Microsoft have revealed their next gen gaming systems to the world on this year's E3, it is time to look at which of the consoles is bett
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The Kingdom of VoStora turn-based roleplaying game
The 16-bit era was probably the high-time of classic Japanese roleplaying games which combined world exploration with turn based combat.
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Xbox One licensing puts you last
Rumors about Microsoft's Xbox One system have been floating around on the Internet for some time.
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How to make the most out of Steam Sales
Steam has been increasing the number of sales per year drastically in the past couple of years.
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How to raise your Steam level to 10 efficiently
Stream's Trading Card game is chucking along just fine in its beta state.
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American Racing 2 Review
The American Racing 2 game looks and plays like a mixture of popular classic racing games such as Outrun and Super Cars.
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Check all regional prices on Steam
The popular game distribution platform Steam, much like Amazon, eBay and many other platforms, uses a regional store system that limits access to stores to user
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Betty IX: old school arcade shooter [Game Saturday]
I like to play shoot'em up games, especially those that let me upgrade my ship in a way or two.
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The King's League Odyssey game review
The King's League Odyssey is a strategy game of sorts in which you have to work yourself up from league to league to fight against the king's team in the end.
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Steam's Trading Card Game: find out what is it all about
Valve is currently running a beta of Steam Trading Cards on Steam that anyone who is invited to can participate in.
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Atari Breakout Easter egg introduced by Google
The Atari Breakout Easter egg is a hidden, playable version of the classic 1976 arcade game that Google introduced in May 2013 to celebrate its 37th anniversary.
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You can now play Civilization in your web browser
The first time I played the computer game Civilization was back on the Commodore Amiga.
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Giants and Dwarves TD is a Tower Defense game with a twist
The Tower Defense (TD) genre has evolved a lot in recent years.
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Steam notification settings: how to configure, move and block notifications
Steam notification settings are in the Steam client under Steam > Settings > Notifications.
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Xbox 720 always-on rumor appears untrue
I'm paying close attention to the upcoming consoles of Microsoft and Sony, not only because I enjoy playing a game or two every now and then, but also because c
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Play Epic Games Citadel Demo in your web browser
I have to admit that I'm not a fan of Epic Games anymore ever since they decided to make shiny great looking games that are not the best gameplay-wise.
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Why is Steam displaying a game content conversion dialog?
If you are using Steam and have Team Fortress 2, CounterStrike Source, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch or Day of Defeat Source installed, you may have noticed a "Game co
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Magnetized review [Game Saturday]
Magnetized is a free Flash-based puzzle game that uses simple game mechanics to provide you with a wonderful and challenging experience.
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Steam client Beta update brings long-awaited download speed limiter
If you are running Steam on one of your systems and have ever bought a game that was downloaded from Steam servers, you know that you can't really manipulate th
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Depressurizer brings order to large Steam game collections
I have more than 200 games in my Steam library and would consider it of medium size.
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Tag Steam friends to group them into play groups
The Steam friends list tells you which friends are currently online on Steam, if they are playing a game, and if they are not online, when they have been online
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What's the Steam Rating all about?
If you have looked at the Steam profile of one of your friends, another gamer or even yourself, you may have noticed the entry Steam Rating in the right sidebar
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Cursed Treasure 2 Tower Defense review [Game Saturday]
I like to play tower defense games and Cursed Treasure 2 is one of those games that keeps me entertained for a long while even though it is not the longest of [
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An always on Xbox 360 won't find its way in to my home
I have been following the development in regards to the next generation of gaming systems, and more precisely the announcements and rumors surrounding Sony's Pl
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A new time waster - Angry Birds Friends heads for mobile devices
If you are on Facebook, and I can confidently say that most of you likely are, then you know the social network is also a haven for game
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Siege Knight [Game Saturday]
I reviewed many arcade shoot em up games in the last weeks here in this series and decided to mix the series up a little bit.
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Trigonometry Wars 3 Redux: Bullet Hell deluxe [Game Saturday]
If you are following the Game Saturday series regularly you know that I love to play shoot em up games.
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Steam adding Early Access Games to its store
Many gamers like to play games as early as possible.
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Pioneers, a game of exploration [Game Saturday]
When you are thinking about pioneers in games, you are probably getting warm and fuzzy when Colonization comes to your mind.
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Steampunk Tower [Game Saturday]
Steampunk Tower is a special kind of tower defense game.
