You heard the man: it's time to play ball. Today, the "Team Fortress 2" Scout Update -- complete with baseball bat, energy drink, double-barreled boomstick, twenty-five achievements and three new community maps -- is ready to download on Steam. And in honor of The Scout Update, Valve has decided to host a little sale. Until Friday, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Valve Corporation announced today that the next update for popular online shooter "Team Fortress 2," including new weapons and achievements for the Scout class, will be available on Steam this Feb. 24. New details will be revealed about each weekday at teamfortress.com. Since TF2's inception, The Scout has carried a mean aluminum fish club; today, Valve [...]
Continue reading...Friday, January 23, 2009
The "Year of Paradise" is over; but that won't stop developer Criterion Games from giving their open-world racing title "Burnout Paradise" one last, free overhaul. Today, Criterion announced that on Feb. 6, the same day "Burnout" hits PC, much of the game will be rebalanced to accommodate new players -- and after a year of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Earlier this afternoon, Sony representatives confirmed to GameCyte that software update 2.60 was just around the corner, and that readers like yourself might receive it -- and the included Photo Gallery application -- tomorrow morning. Well, "tomorrow" has morphed into "right now." Fire up your PS3, head to System Update -- as if you had much [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Whatever detractors may say about the $400 entry fee, there's no question that the PlayStation 3 is a powerful multimedia center. Sure, it's no TiVo, but it's much less bloated than your Windows desktop, and houses hardware that can play back the latest movies and rip high-quality music with ease. Tomorrow, Sony will hopefully make the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 24, 2008
On November 18th, 2008, Nintendo dropped the bomb on their unwanted homebrew community with the release of the Wii Menu 3.4 update. The ever-reliable Twilight Hack was destroyed. An updated ToS informed gamers that from now on, Nintendo could automatically update the system at whim. And while our usual benefactors remained calm, they informed us [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Nintendo is well-known for their extreme measures in combating piracy, and more recently homebrew – especially with the Wii. Nintendo has been quick to try and stop homebrew on the Wii; multiple times, in fact. Thankfully, the awesome guys who make homebrew play on the Wii possible have always managed to thwart the Big N. Of [...]
Continue reading...Monday, October 27, 2008
Oh we of little faith. On Thursday, GameCyte reported that Nintendo's new Wii Shop Channel update was expressly designed to break homebrew applications, and that Nintendo had sneakily left the end user with only two choices; give up the opportunity to install potentially groundbreaking homebrew apps, or completely lose the ability to purchase new WiiWare [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 23, 2008
Update 10/27: Actually, you do have a choice -- in two days flat, the homebrew community has defeated Nintendo's dastardly update. Five months ago, Nintendo released "Wii Menu Update 3.3," an attack on the Wii homebrew and import communities masquerading as a functionality improvement, where the only added functionality was the ability to drag and drop [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer. Consumer Report: Nintendo Wii Menu version 3.3 update destroys homebrew, Freeloader support (Nintendo Wii Fanboy; Nintendo Everything via videogaming247) Enthusiast: PlayStation 3 "trophies," in-game XMB finally inbound for firmware v2.40; release date unspecified (PlayStation.Blog) Nintendo's Laurent "geeks and otaku" Fischer promises some sort of Wii storage [...]
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