GamesBeat Giveaway Week: Day 3 (Steam games)
Fear not, PC gamers, we haven't forgotten about you. For the third day of our week-long giveaway contest, we've got Steam codes for The Cave and Super House of Dead Ninjas!
From Flash to Steam — how Adult Swim is building a publishing empire
Adult Swim Games released its first Steam game last week, and it has plans for further expansion.
Dota 2 surpasses Skyrim’s record for most concurrent players on Steam
Valve’s Dota 2 strategy game just broke The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’s record for the most concurrent players on the Steam gaming network. Dota 2 reached 297,010 simultaneous gamers on March 2. That beats Skyrim’s 287,411 players on the game’s launch day in November 2011.
Co-creator of Counter-Strike will launch his Tactical Intervention shooter on March 28
Tactical Intervention combines team-based first-person-shooter gameplay with a free-to-play business model.
Portal developer Kim Swift’s next game is exclusive to Ouya
Kim Swift has gone from Portal to Quantum Conundrum and now to something new on Ouya.
The War Z is back on Steam more than two months after Valve pulled it
The open-world zombie survival game that sparked an angry fan backlash returns to Steam.
Poker Smash developer asking for $7.5K on Kickstarter to release PC version
Void Star Creations needs just a little bit more cash to finish Poker Smash for PC.
Valve officially releases Steam for Linux — and celebrates with a sale
Valve releases its digital-distribution service on the open-source operating system.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: D.I.C.E. 2013, Dead Space 3, and game investments take a dive
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Valve’s Gabe Newell argues for PC gaming in the living room — but Apple is scary
The PC has potential to overtake the consoles, he says, but watch out for Apple.