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  • Apple’s Gaming Future is Full Steam Ahead

    Apple’s Gaming Future is Full Steam Ahead

    Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember back when anti-mac fanboys use to say that “the Mac doesn’t have gaming, it’s not 1337”. Then Apple entered the gaming world as a noob, and now look, OS X is running Steam.

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  • Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

    Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Steam for Mac is 100 percent official. Valve just released a statement saying it plans to launch it this April. The first games available will be Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life (and expansions), Counter Strike, and Portal. Portal 2 will be the first game released for Mac and PC simultaneously. Pretty big news, yes.

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  • Remember when Team Fortress 2 didn’t look like Team Fortress 2?

    Remember when Team Fortress 2 didn’t look like Team Fortress 2?

    Posted on December 29, 2009 | No Comments
    A few of you may already know that Team Fortress 2 didn't always look like Toy Story más violence, but for the unawares: it did. So, proof! A certain Curits Lassam, friend to all, found an old PC Gamer preview fromthe year two-thousand that described the game in its old, Counter-Strike-like art style. Yuck.

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  • And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    And now Germany bans the public display of Counter-Strike

    Posted on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
    Another ban hammer has fallen on Germany. Now it looks like the country, in its various Länder, has passed a law banning the public display, at LAN parties and the like, of the game Counter-Strike, effecting the closure of a tournament there.

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  • All violent video games poised for ban in Germany

    All violent video games poised for ban in Germany

    Posted on June 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Bad news for German gamers. (As I understand it, we're huge in Baden-Baden.) A bill is about to be introduced to parliament, after having been rubber-stamped by all sixteen of the country's interior ministers, that would ban the sale of all violent video games. What's a violent video game? Any game “where the main part is to realistically play the killing of people or other cruel or unhuman acts of violence against humans or manlike characters.” Yikes.

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  • Swedish girl drops out of school to play Counter-Strike

    Swedish girl drops out of school to play Counter-Strike

    Posted on June 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Lest you think that youngsters are incapable of making good decisions, please observe Sweden’s Sophie Regner, who just dropped out of high school to play Counter-Strike full time. Well, maybe not full time. Regner, also known as “inzane” when playing Counter-Strike, admits that she spends a lot of time just hanging around with friends. To her [...]

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