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THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 27,721: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,173: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3 XSTREAM RE-CHRISTENED ‘TRITON’ While the list covers a wide range of titles, the fact that DiStream are advertising their service with such low-key (save Prey) games does not bode well.It gets worse: Air Raid‘s Metacritic score is 39, Armies of Exigo‘s is a slightly more respectable 69, and Battle of Europe isn’t even listed (Prey is currently unreleased). In the fact the sole consolation that can be taken away fromTHE STEAM REVIEW
Get your wallet out. Take2/3D Realms/Human Head have marked down their 2006 game Prey by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketing strategy.THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited THE SHIP ONLINE ANNOUNCED FOR STEAM I’m sure many of you will recognise the Half-Life 1 mod The Ship, if only by name.It was a quirky deathmatch-but-not in which players became assassins, given a target to kill before the round ends, with the macabre “Mr. X” overseeing proceedings and rewarding successful killers, his cash prize sized on the ‘style’ of theirtake-out.
STUTTERING UPDATE
I don’t normally cover game updates, but this one is important enough to make an exception for. A part of the current Friends beta is an update to the Source engine aimed at the longstanding stuttering issue. And what do you know? It works.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
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THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 27,721: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,173: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3 XSTREAM RE-CHRISTENED ‘TRITON’ While the list covers a wide range of titles, the fact that DiStream are advertising their service with such low-key (save Prey) games does not bode well.It gets worse: Air Raid‘s Metacritic score is 39, Armies of Exigo‘s is a slightly more respectable 69, and Battle of Europe isn’t even listed (Prey is currently unreleased). In the fact the sole consolation that can be taken away fromTHE STEAM REVIEW
Get your wallet out. Take2/3D Realms/Human Head have marked down their 2006 game Prey by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketing strategy.THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited THE SHIP ONLINE ANNOUNCED FOR STEAM I’m sure many of you will recognise the Half-Life 1 mod The Ship, if only by name.It was a quirky deathmatch-but-not in which players became assassins, given a target to kill before the round ends, with the macabre “Mr. X” overseeing proceedings and rewarding successful killers, his cash prize sized on the ‘style’ of theirtake-out.
STUTTERING UPDATE
I don’t normally cover game updates, but this one is important enough to make an exception for. A part of the current Friends beta is an update to the Source engine aimed at the longstanding stuttering issue. And what do you know? It works.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
www.steamreview.org
WELCOME! – THE STEAM REVIEW The Steam Review’s new home is open for business. I’ve tried to keep the theme as close to the old Blogger version as possible, but some things simply can’t be changed without PHP hacking and there are still a few bugs too. Hopefully it is similar enough to keepeveryone happy.
AUDIO AND VIDEO CODECS Type: Name: Description: Manufacturer: Version: Path and File: Size: Audio: l3codeca: Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec: Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IIS ALL-ROUND PLATFORM UPDATE The Steam Media Player launches the videos by default (a system’s default player can be used if desired), but as a wrapper for an unmodified Windows Media Player control it has the frustrating limitations of both preventing any form of streaming and being unable to read from Steam’s GCF format. This second point means extracting the entire video file to a Windows folder, doubling up hard THE SHIP ONLINE ANNOUNCED FOR STEAM I’m sure many of you will recognise the Half-Life 1 mod The Ship, if only by name.It was a quirky deathmatch-but-not in which players became assassins, given a target to kill before the round ends, with the macabre “Mr. X” overseeing proceedings and rewarding successful killers, his cash prize sized on the ‘style’ of theirtake-out.
STEAM VS. WORLD OF WARCRAFT This article has been imported from The Steam Review’s previous host, and has had its original posting date retained. Friday marked the final day of 1UP’s Valve week, with the feature’s climax being an interview with Gabe Newell. SPECTRE OF IN-GAME ADVERTISING LOOMS When they said “drive revenue”, I didn’t quite realise they had this in mind. IGA Worldwide made headlines around the web earlier this year when they began offering an service that added in-game adverts to the servers of their clients. This was all done without Valve’s blessing, a violation of the SSA, and it seemed that IGA had got themselves into a tricky position when Valve got on D - OSIAN PRODUCTIONSTRANSLATE THIS PAGE Osian Productions is an independent film production team which formed at the University of Cumbria. Together, the Osian team have completed drama, music video and documentary projects. SUPPORT INFORMATION FOR WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER Type Name Format Binary Version; ACM: Microsoft IMA ADPCM CODEC: 0011: imaadp32.acm: 6.0.6000.16386: ACM: Microsoft CCITT G.711 A-Law and u-Law CODEC: 0007: msg711.acm SIN EPISODES: EMERGENCE PRELOADING, SIN 1 RE-RELEASED Ritual’s SiN Episodes: Emergence has entered the preloading phase a full month before release, along with an updated version of the original SiN and a seperate multiplayer version that THE ATHARON CONSPIRACY The response to the forum blitz was not, it would seem, as positive as J had hoped. Despite further replies on several of the better-received posts cajoling people to join up and giving precise instructions for doing so, modders and cynical developers just weren’t ready to join a new company that was somehow carving an MMO out of a FPS engine. They didn’t even know the game’s name, andTHE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. PREY ON SALE THIS WEEKEND…FOR $5 Prey has been marked down by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketingstrategy.
SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
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THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. PREY ON SALE THIS WEEKEND…FOR $5 Prey has been marked down by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketingstrategy.
SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
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THE STEAM REVIEW
Impulse isn’t inspiring much writing from me at the moment (executive summary: Steam without residency), but CD Projekt’s freshly-announced Good Old Games is another story. Shacknews has the details:. Located at GOG.com and slated to launch in September, the online store will sell DRM-free digital downloads of old-school PC games at $5.99 or $9.99 a pop.NEOEDGE UNCOVERED
Hot on the heels of Triton’s recent demise comes news of NeoEdge (thanks hahnchen), a distribution service promising a series of new twists on the Steam/Triton formula.. Its pitch is a delivery system based on a proprietary peer-to-peer technology, supported by an astonishing variety of advertisement models: in-game, pre-game, around-game, you name it. WELCOME! – THE STEAM REVIEW The Steam Review’s new home is open for business. I’ve tried to keep the theme as close to the old Blogger version as possible, but some things simply can’t be changed without PHP hacking and there are still a few bugs too. Hopefully it is similar enough to keepeveryone happy.
VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. FRIENDS 3.0 PRE-BETA INTERVIEW Friends 3.0 will enter public beta in a few hours, so it’s just about time to give you all a preview of what to expect. I’ve been speaking with the Steam developer leading the Friends 3.0 project, John Cook, about what the new version provides, what drove and still drives its production, and how it now works.A WORLD OF MY OWN
Virgin Games’ upcoming rent-based digital distribution service has been officially announced and named as A World Of My Own. According to Richard Branson, Virgin’s chairman and a well known character in England, the curiously-named system “gives us the opportunity to do for PC games what iTunes has done for musicâ€.
THE SHIP ONLINE ANNOUNCED FOR STEAM I’m sure many of you will recognise the Half-Life 1 mod The Ship, if only by name.It was a quirky deathmatch-but-not in which players became assassins, given a target to kill before the round ends, with the macabre “Mr. X” overseeing proceedings and rewarding successful killers, his cash prize sized on the ‘style’ of theirtake-out.
DARK MESSIAH COMING TO STEAM Powered by Source, speculation over whether Ubisoft would release Dark Messiah through Steam had been quashed for most of the game’s development cycle by the company-wide use of the StarForce copy protection system. While there are no known incompatibilities between Steam and StarForce protection (mainly because nobody has ever tried combining the two), distributing a copy of the game thatWWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
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THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. PREY ON SALE THIS WEEKEND…FOR $5 Prey has been marked down by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketingstrategy.
SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
www.steamreview.org
THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3THE STEAM REVIEW
Following hot on the heels of Darwinia, this month’s PC Gamer UK carries the news that the celebrated WWII UT2004 mod Red Orchestra, which won the ‘Make Something Unreal’ competition and with it an engine license, will see a standalone sequel released on Steam this January, titled Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45. “Digital content delivery is the future of gaming, and we are very excited VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. PREY ON SALE THIS WEEKEND…FOR $5 Prey has been marked down by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketingstrategy.
SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
www.steamreview.org
NEOEDGE UNCOVERED
Hot on the heels of Triton’s recent demise comes news of NeoEdge (thanks hahnchen), a distribution service promising a series of new twists on the Steam/Triton formula.. Its pitch is a delivery system based on a proprietary peer-to-peer technology, supported by an astonishing variety of advertisement models: in-game, pre-game, around-game, you name it. VIRTUAL DRIVE NO LONGER VIRTUAL Steam’s virtual drive has long been known to erode the loading performance of games using it. A new filesystem beta started last night containing Valve’s solution: accepting the inevitable and leaving GCFs for the full system.. Games using what was formerly the Steam virtual drive now have their files loose on the hard drive in /common, a subfolder of /SteamApps. LAID BACK GAMING LICENSE STEAM AND SOURCE Trokia’s Source-powered Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines turned out to be the company’s last game before their financial ruin and closure. The closure might have been the end of Troika, but it certainly wasn’t the end of the company’s experimental, screw-the-workload style.THE STEAM COMMUNITY
The Steam Community will offer many of the benefits of Xbox Live Gold to Steam users -- for free. FRIENDS 3.0 PRE-BETA INTERVIEW Friends 3.0 will enter public beta in a few hours, so it’s just about time to give you all a preview of what to expect. I’ve been speaking with the Steam developer leading the Friends 3.0 project, John Cook, about what the new version provides, what drove and still drives its production, and how it now works.A WORLD OF MY OWN
Virgin Games’ upcoming rent-based digital distribution service has been officially announced and named as A World Of My Own. According to Richard Branson, Virgin’s chairman and a well known character in England, the curiously-named system “gives us the opportunity to do for PC games what iTunes has done for musicâ€.
STEAM GUARD WILL NOT KILL YOU There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s DARWINIA AND STEAM: AN INTERVIEW WITH INTROVERSION There have been three new Steam releases announced in the past few days, beginning with Darwinia last Tuesday.Introversion Software’s seminal genre-buster saw almost universal praise from critics but sold poorly, not least because it lacked any form of distribution inAmerica.
HARDWARE SURVEY 7: “INSTALLED PACKAGES” The Valve Hardware survey was reset for the seventh time yesterday.This time archives of all the previous surveys have also been made available, going right the way back to March 2004!. I’ll leave any comparisons to statisticians. CYBERCAFE CARD DETAILS STOLEN You may by now have heard that “Steam†was broken into a week and a half ago and “consumer†credit card details stolen. As the quote marks suggest the breach has been played up by those behind it, whose exaggerations have been somewhat naively passedon by
THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3TACTICAL INSERTION
s detailed squad AI and cover system caught my eye, and I felt that they could be made into a game of their own. Over the course of four months I created Tactical Insertion: an intense, round-based, Real Time Tactical squad combat mod inspired by RTT classic Ground Control.. Game design HARDWARE SURVEY 7: “INSTALLED PACKAGES” The Valve Hardware survey was reset for the seventh time yesterday.This time archives of all the previous surveys have also been made available, going right the way back to March 2004!. I’ll leave any comparisons to statisticians. FASCINATING FA CUP EXHIBITION AT TULLIE HOUSE Despite many people nowadays claiming that the FA Cup has lost a lot of its significance there is a special display on at Tullie House with some wonderful reminders of the competition’s history. SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings. FIRST OPEN MIC NIGHT AT CALVA BAR The first open mic night held at Calva Bar was well attended, to the delight of Student Union Events Manager, Dom Leighton.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
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THE STEAM REVIEW
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS Blender Source Tools. The Blender Source Tools add Source engine support to Blender, the free 3D modelling suite. Whether you're making a simple hat or a fully-articulated character, the Blender Source Tools make exporting it easy. LOOM ON STEAM: WHICH VERSION TO PLAY? Loom has been released several times, but there is no clear-cut “best version”.. Steam provides Windows and Mac ports of Loom’s 1992 DOS CD-ROM re-release. The other popular version is the 1990 FM-TOWNS release.; CD-ROM A “talkie” release — every line of dialogue has recorded audio BLENDER SOURCE TOOLS: RELEASE ARCHIVES Blender Source Tools Release Archive. Blender 2.80+ 3.1.1: 26,369: 23 Mar 2021: Changes: 3.1.0: 95,158: 4 Jul 2020: Changes: 3.0.3TACTICAL INSERTION
s detailed squad AI and cover system caught my eye, and I felt that they could be made into a game of their own. Over the course of four months I created Tactical Insertion: an intense, round-based, Real Time Tactical squad combat mod inspired by RTT classic Ground Control.. Game design HARDWARE SURVEY 7: “INSTALLED PACKAGES” The Valve Hardware survey was reset for the seventh time yesterday.This time archives of all the previous surveys have also been made available, going right the way back to March 2004!. I’ll leave any comparisons to statisticians. FASCINATING FA CUP EXHIBITION AT TULLIE HOUSE Despite many people nowadays claiming that the FA Cup has lost a lot of its significance there is a special display on at Tullie House with some wonderful reminders of the competition’s history. SECTION ONE: ALEXITHYMIA 2018/4/24 Page 1 of 11 /r/Alexithymia Survey 2018 Section One: Alexithymia Well over half of all respondents have trouble both experiencing and identifying feelings. FIRST OPEN MIC NIGHT AT CALVA BAR The first open mic night held at Calva Bar was well attended, to the delight of Student Union Events Manager, Dom Leighton.WWW.STEAMREVIEW.ORG
www.steamreview.org
AUDIO AND VIDEO CODECS Type: Name: Description: Manufacturer: Version: Path and File: Size: Audio: l3codeca: Fraunhofer IIS MPEG Layer-3 Codec: Fraunhofer Institut Integrierte Schaltungen IISTOM EDWARDS
Programmer, game designer, and technical writer. I extended the in-game interface of Natural Selection 2 with contextual team status information.. The Team Info HUD mod was written in Lua and hooks elegantly into the game's base systems, with only one compatibility fix needed in three years.. The mod handles network transmission of extra player information, predicts the status of the localNEOEDGE UNCOVERED
Hot on the heels of Triton’s recent demise comes news of NeoEdge (thanks hahnchen), a distribution service promising a series of new twists on the Steam/Triton formula.. Its pitch is a delivery system based on a proprietary peer-to-peer technology, supported by an astonishing variety of advertisement models: in-game, pre-game, around-game, you name it. STEAM GUARD WILL NOT KILL YOU There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of Steam Guard, which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers.Here are the facts: Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY Yeah, my mistake. When I first visited Valve, they occupied two floors. I had a tour of the one where all the game teams worked, and Doug said the one below was the Steam guys. PREY ON SALE THIS WEEKEND…FOR $5 Prey has been marked down by 80% for one weekend only, sending it soaring past the other Top Sellers entries but, perhaps due to the weekend timing, not earning it much media attention. Which is a shame, because it’s a novel and otherwise effective marketingstrategy.
DARWINIA AND STEAM: AN INTERVIEW WITH INTROVERSION There have been three new Steam releases announced in the past few days, beginning with Darwinia last Tuesday.Introversion Software’s seminal genre-buster saw almost universal praise from critics but sold poorly, not least because it lacked any form of distribution inAmerica.
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Virgin Games’ upcoming rent-based digital distribution service has been officially announced and named as A World Of My Own. According to Richard Branson, Virgin’s chairman and a well known character in England, the curiously-named system “gives us the opportunity to do for PC games what iTunes has done for musicâ€.
THAI AND RUSSIAN REGION RESTRICTIONS Last Friday, Valve began preventing retail copies of their Source (i.e. post-2004) games bought in Thailand and Russia from being played outside their country of origin. The internet has exploded the story in the way only the internet can, and it’s high time for somerationality.
RAG DOLL KUNG FU DEMO RELEASED Despite having had no official announcement, a demo for Rag Doll Kung Fu is now available through Steam. It features the first two single-player training areas and a time-limited multiplayer mode.THE STEAM REVIEW
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STEAM GUARD WILL NOT KILL YOU It's been a long time. How have you been? :: March 4th, 2011 :: Steam updates , Steamworks:: 7 Responses
There is a lot of confusion over the recent announcement of SteamGuard ,
which will allow Steam account access to be limited to specific computers. Here are the facts: * Steam Guard will completely restrict account access “Enabling maximum account security prevents the account from being accessed from any computers other than those you explicitly authorize,” says one of Steam’s new localisation strings. * Intel hardware is optional Steam Guard will be able to identify a computer using software only; this will be inherently less secure than hardware identification but better than nothing. The system that already prevents stored login details being copied to different computers will presumably be used. * Multiple computers can be activated with email codes But only when Steam Guard is running in software mode. Sensibly, the weak point of authorising other computers (given the dependence on email account integrity that it entails) is disabled when hardware identification is active. There is no word yet on what will happen should your CPU explode when your account is in hardware mode, but the process will surely bear similarities to recovering a lost password. * Steam Guard will be added to Steamworks This is odd. The full quote is “available to third parties to incorporate into their own applications through Steamworks,” but why would anyone want to re-implement what Steam already gives them? I can only speculate that either this is marketing hype (like the utterly redundant CEG), or
that Steam is going to start natively supporting limited activations. While Valve have tolerated this in the past, actually offering it as a part of Steamworks — if that is the plan — would be a big step. And why does the release say “applications”, not “games”? Perhaps just a slip-up… * Steam Guard will be under your control Notwithstanding the above, enabling Steam Guard on your Steam account is optional. This might seem like an pretty good move by Valve, but there is a bogeyman. Intel’s new tech falls under Trusted Computing: the practice of
using purpose-built hardware to ensure that a computer can be trusted to be upholding certain conditions. Most often those are that unauthorised code isn’t running, but in this case it’s that a single, particular CPU is in use. The key is that unlike DRM, which is always grounded in software, a good implementation of Trusted Computing _cannot_ be broken without physical access to the computer (and an electron microscope).
The rights and wrongs of this are a matter of personal opinion. But having seen Steam suffer suspicion and even hatred while it was establishing itself I can’t help but be if not quite pro-TC, then anti-anti. It’s certainly clear that Steam Guard will make the worlda better place.
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Valve strategy
------------------------- DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION REVIEW New website continues TSR's legacy :: August 26th, 2009 :: Site news:: 4 Responses
Guess what? The Steam Review is dead. I make this point in order to to ease myself into the second paragraph, where I link to Digital Distribution Review . It’s a relatively new site run by one ‘Kurina’, which since May has been posting the kind of erudite analysis I always strived toward for the same reasonsI always identified
with. I like it.
It’s only fitting, of course, that a Digital Distribution Review should take over from The Steam Review. Steam is a long way from the only service on offer today, and although I tried to encompass otherservices on
this site doing so never quite made sense beneath a green, white and black header. Don’t unsubscribe just yet however (there are still over 450 of you), as TSR isn’t going anywhere; depending on whether Kurina covers Blizzard’s reveal of the new Battle.net there _may_ even be a new article coming up…_maybe._ Tags: Digital Distribution Review ------------------------- LOCALISED PRICES INTRODUCED ACROSS EUROPE UK benefits, continent suffers :: December 24th, 2008 :: Steamupdates :: 7
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Steam has begun to offer localised prices to buyers in Europe . “The future is now”according to Valve
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and indeed in the UK many prices have fallen below past RRPwatersheds.
But in the Eurozone prices have rocketed thanks to Valve’s conversion of $1 to €1, despite the dollar’s actual worth of €0.72. A dystopian future at best, this 28% increase is offset slightly by the inclusion of VATin listed
prices, though even the unusually large levies of 25% in Denmark and Sweden don’t account for the entire hike. Valve haven’t given any particular reason for the move, but there are several potential triggers. Foremost is the likelihood that Steam’s sales have simply reached a volume at which it becomes economic to flex some financial muscles: Newell predicted in May thisyear
that Steam would start to account for the majority of Valve’s salesover the summer.
Good Old Games also deserve mention for introducing a $6 price point for over half their catalogue, which has significant overlap with Steam (Valve’s equivalent price is £3/€5). Valve may feel that gamers ought to be shielded from the world’s increasingly unstable exchange rates, or perhaps it’s as simple as that the new code was checked in for testing?THE NUMBERS
Game
United Kingdom
France
USD
Localised
Change
USD
Localised
Change
Generic $10
8
6
↓£2
€9
€10
↑€1
Generic $20
14
14
0
€18
€20
↑€2
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage38
6
↓£32
€45
€10
↓€35
Bioshock
42
14
↓£28
€49
€20
↓€29
Valve Complete pack
77
53
↓£24
€89
€90
↑€1
Civilization III Complete23
3
↓£20
€27
€5
↓€22
Left 4 Dead
38
27
↓£11
€45
€50
↑€5
Call of Duty: World at War38
30
↓£8
€54
€55
↑€1
Red Orchestra
15
9
↓£6
€18
€15
↓€3
The Orange Box
23
17
↓£6
€27
€30
↑€3
Grand Theft Auto IV
31
27
↓£4
€45
€50
↑€5
World of Goo
15
17
↑£2
€18
€20
↑€2
Empire: Total War
38
40
↑£2
€45
€50
↑€5
Speculation isn’t going to achieve much, so let’s take a look at the actual figures. Highlights can be seen to the right: most games have been automatically converted, but Valve also gave clients the opportunity to set their own prices and quite a few have taken the offer up. Some of the resulting reductions are incredible, particularly those given to FlatOut, Bioshock and Civilization III — FlatOut in particular, which is now far, far cheaper on Steam than it is at most retail outlets, even though it was released to solid review scoresin August.
But note Empire: Total War and World of Goo, which both went _up_ in price all over Europe. 2D Boy’s defence of Goo’s prices is unsurprising: “our agreement with our European retail publisher obligates us not to undercut retail prices,” Ron Carmel told me. “No publisher would sign a retail deal without ensuring that.” Sega’s excuse is almost certainly the same. THE SITUATION IN EUROPE There’s a pretty obvious trend here. France and continental Europe as a whole has suffered, while the UK stands alone in benefiting. Posters on the Steam forums believe that this places “Valv€” in breach of EU anti-competition law (specifically Article 82),
and they may well be right, though precisely where the buck would stop in that situation is a murky matter I don’t much care to tackle. It’s not hard to imagine how localised, tax-inclusive pricing became a bad thing for most. Artificial inflation of Steam prices is the last manifestation of that legacy bottleneck known as retail, and I’m actually quite surprised that any one region has been able to escapeit at all.
Indeed the UK may prove to be an experiment (Valve are working on “fixing” prices elsewhere in Europe), one made
expedient by our continuing use of a separate currency. It’s certainly hard to imagine Amazon UK agreeing to Steam undercutting them on most games; they’ve discounted many since Valve’s new prices came in, but none very far. Postage and packaging typically undo their efforts unless the customer buys in bulk. Whether this supposed experiment will spread clearly depends on its reception in the UK, from both buyers and retailers. Alas we are unlikely to ever hear retailer’s reactions, save for sugar-coated assurances from their PR departments, and Steam’s top seller list is international. But with classics like Arx Fatalis and Civ3 selling for 3 it’s well worth spending less than the cost of a takeaway making a statement in favour. Not to mention picking up some great games! (But beware: as I’ve discovered, Steam’s version of Civ3 is incompatible with Vista.)
Tags: Good Old Games , publishers , purchasing, retailers
------------------------- 13 PEOPLE WORK ON STEAM, ACTUALLY A correction :: October 14th, 2008 :: Valve:: 23 Responses
Disregard the last post: I’ve heard directly from Valve that only _thirteen_ of their staff work on Steam. > I just counted; there’s thirteen devs. This team is responsible> for:
>
> * The Steam client > * Custom installer work for games that need it > * Billing systems and online payment, and all the internal > reporting and auditing > * The store > * The forums > * All the Valve websites, at least as far as keeping the machines > online and running > * The Steam servers > * The server-side software, that is, Steam Communities and the > server code that talks with the client > * The SteamCommunity.com web servers, plus the middleware that > talks to the Steam Servers > * SteamWorks > * The hardware survey, mostly > * The statistics websites, both internal and public-facing > * SteamCloud > * Specifying, buying, installing, and repairing hardware for all> those systems
> * DRM
> * VAC
> * Secret projects > * Managing all the content servers around the world>
> If you’re thinking about the Steam team, that’s the list to > think of — plus whatever else I’ve forgotten. There’s a bunch > of guys who are kind of on the steam team who do game releases. They > include five people total, probably, who get the games, test them, > get them into Steam and distributable on the content servers, and > then write the news updates and do the artwork for the storefront.>
> (I guess, somewhere in between, there’s people who lots of Steam > stuff but aren’t really counted here. Like handling relationships > with credit card companies, or doing support, or working with > network providers to locate machines and negotiate bandwidth costs.) This all comes by way of group chat messages with Valve’s BurtonJohnsey
(formerly known as tonjohn, SPUF old-timers).Burton can only
think that other Tom got the numbers wrong — but as the currently 25-strong Steam group proves those numbers can and do fluctuate. Some other titbits gleaned this evening: the number of staff at Valve is now around 200, and every one of them outside Steam is currently working on Left 4 Dead, and will move on to “more DLC for TF2, DLC for L4D, and EP3 among other things” once it ships. If the first clutch of Official Game Groups can lead to all this in a few hours, they’re certainly going to be valuable resources in the future! 🙂 ------------------------- HALF OF VALVE’S STAFF WORK ON STEAM Yikes! :: August 22nd, 2008 :: Valve:: 4 Responses
Update: This is entirely wrong.Urk.
PC Gamer UK have published some thoughts on where Valve, Maxis andBlizzard are going
.
Their resident Valve fan-boffin Tom Francissays of Steam:
> The amazing thing is that the guys churning out regular additions to > these four games are half of Valve. The other half are working on > Steam, constantly. _Seventy-five_ people. There’s certainly enough in the pipeline to occupy them: Steamworks, Steamcloud, matchmaking, minimum requirement checks, ongoing Community improvements, non-game/driver downloads and a P2P network to name merely what we peons know of today. And yes, P2P _is_ still being worked on. Gabe said recently:
> One of the things we’d like to do is to understand what types of > applications people have on their PCs. For example, if a whole bunch > of people are running Firefox, then make sure that’s one of the > applications they can get through Steam.>
> there are community features that we want to continue to add. > There’s peer-to-peer functionality: the community has this > tremendous amount of bandwidth. There’s a whole bunch of content > that they’re downloading right now, and being able to replicate > that throughout the community using peer-to-peer would be a really > good idea. What they need is a structured interface on top of that > so they can find the content that everybody’s already downloading. > Those are the kind of things we’re looking at. Other Tom goes on to talk about how he expects Steam to become practically an OS of its own within Windows one day, and it’s getting harder and harder to disagree with him.Tags: app downloads
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Preparation for widespread hosting? :: August 11th, 2008 ::Steamworks :: 51
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Too many crossings out, time for a rewrite! Five mods have been given special access to the Steamworks SDK and will be releasing future versions over Steam. The news was announced by the co-op HL2 mod Synergy , probably earlier than it wassupposed to be :
> I would also like to inform you that we will be releasing Synergy > and future updates through Steam! Valve Software has allowed us to > do so by giving us access to the Steamworks SDK.>
> We are honored to be one of the four (sic) first selected mods to be > given this opportunity. We will certainly put this to good use!>
> For you players, this means that you will see Achievements and Stats > coming to Synergy in later updates. (Not to mention the automatic > updates, provided by Steam.) This plugs the final gap in Steam’s handling and presentation of mods; now they are to all intents and purposes they are free games, including, apparently, support for sub-mods. Previously mod teams had been told they were too small for Valve to support, and before
that that their work was one day going to be distributed over Steam’s Peer-to-Peer network.
Although Steamworks doesn’t by itself give a game a presence in the Steam store, the more popular mods are already listedand are
unlikely to be removed just to comply with Valve’s rules forcommercial games.
The names of the other four mods have been found referenced in Steam’s content registry(thanks AciD):
* Age of Chivalry
* D.I.P.R.I.P.
* Insurgency
* Zombie Panic: Source And Synergy, of course. There’s no known date for when Valve will start extending offers to other mods, and knowing Valve most likelyisn’t one at all!
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