Showing posts with label Steam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steam. Show all posts

Dec 23, 2009

A Holiday 2 for 1: Two News Items, One Post

Today, seeing as how we'll be silent tomorrow and the day after (someone's gotta drink the egg nog, right?), we thoughts we'd give you a holiday present with two very note-worthy news stories.

The first one would be this item out of Boston, where a teenage boy refused to go to sleep for fear of not being able to play Grand Theft Auto for a couple of hours (we must reference the Warcraft kid, and ask if it isn't his mother finally begging for help here?). So what did mom do? Call the cops and have them try to convince her child that the world won't explode if he just sleeps for a few hours.



No word on whether the mother or the cops were actually successful or if someone gave the kid a nice Klonopin and brandy, but, either way you chose to game it this week (and we all know we're gonna be getting brand new gaming treats) try spending as much quality time with fam as with your WiiMote. Otherwise you'll get the cops called on you.

And if you're already a pretty measured gamer, AND, love a good deal, the rumors of a Steam holiday sale are true. Our second news story is of the "up to 80% off" sale going on at the PC gaming retail service right now. 

 

The sale samples the store's greatest hits of the year and is only going on for a limited time. So rush here as soon as possible and grab as much content before the new batch of '10 release hit Steam's shelves. 

Fully story on sale at Joystiq.

Dec 16, 2009

"Games On Demand For Windows" Launches

If you missed last week's post re: announcement of Microsoft's "Games On Demand For Windows", then you missed finding out that Microsoft has entered the 21st century in style by officially creating a premiere digital distribution service.





Yesterday's launch of Games on Demand will now, not only, make the connection between PC game and player that much more expedient, but, will provide massive competition for Valve's "Steam" service, as the independent distributor has been the only one to service PC games digitally so far.


If you happen to find yourself using the service here on out, be careful that it is new, and as with all new software, its just past the beta stage and may have some glitches and unwanted bugs. Use the following link for assistance if need be.