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Microsoft's Visual Studio now has Achievements

Paul Ferson — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 17:15:16 +0000

In a rather inventive move, a group of coders have added Achievements to Microsoft's Visual Studio application in order to draw more attention to its feature-set. Read more...

Black Friday 2011: Steam and other PC game download sales

John Callaham — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:55:01 +0000

Black Friday 2011 hasn't officially started yet but at least three PC game download sites, including Steam, are jumping the gun with massive sales that last through Monday. Read more...

Xbox 360 player reaches 600,000 Gamerscore mark

John Callaham — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 20:23:41 +0100

A rabid Xbox 360 player is getting closer to his ultimate goal of reaching a 1 million Gamerscore by surpassing the 600,000 Gamerscore mark over the weekend. Read more...

Independence Day weekend gives us lots of PC game sales

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:57:16 +0100

Would you like to save some money while having a barbacue or watching fireworks shows this weekend? Various PC game download sites are happy to oblige you with lots of daily game sales: Steam - Valve's... Read more...

Friday's PC game sales are set for the weekend

John Callaham — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 02:13:43 +0100

Friday brings us a number of new daily, weekend and week long PC game sales to take advantage of Direct2Drive - GameFly's PC game download site has a sale for today only on Battlefield 2 and... Read more...

GamersFirst buys Fallen Earth MMO; game will become free-to-play

John Callaham — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:48:10 +0100

GamersFirst, who acquired the failed first person shooter MMO All Points Bulletin and is now turning it into a free-to-play game, is doing the same thing for another well established MMO title. Today's press release... Read more...

GamersGate to offer free PC-Mac games service

John Callaham — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:58:10 +0100

One of the biggest PC game download services will soon launch a way for players to download part of their large library of PC and Mac titles and play them for free. The service is... Read more...

Monday's PC game sales hit on Memorial Day

John Callaham — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:57:27 +0100

It's Memorial Day here in the US and UK residents are also enjoying a day off. But even holidays don't take a day off when it comes to PC game sales. Let's take a look... Read more...

APB Reloaded open beta launched

John Callaham — Mon, 23 May 2011 20:20:03 +0100

After a slight delay, GamersFirst has now launched the open beta test of APB Reloaded, the new free-to-play version of the 2010 released urban-themed first person shooter MMO. The open beta was originally slated for... Read more...

Monday's PC game deals include free copy of Necrovision Lost Company

John Callaham — Mon, 23 May 2011 19:20:03 +0100

Do you like free games? Do you like first person shooter titles? Then you are in luck for the next 48 hours. That's the time period that the Green Man Gaming web site has decided... Read more...