Save the World for the price of a burger

Amidst speculation that a new X-Com game is in the works, here’s a stone-cold fact: you can get every game in the series from Steam right now, for just five bucks a pop. Whatever weak-sauce excuses you might once have had for not playing these games just got hit by a blaster bomb, sucker.  While [...]

Penny Arcade Goes Green[house]

Penny Arcade and Vancouver-based developer Hothead Games have unveiled Greenhouse, “a platform agnostic digital distribution portal”. Greenhouse will initially be used to distribute the Penny Arcade adventure game, On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, but PA artist and co-founder Mike “Gabe” Krahulik says that’s just the beginning: “eventually we’d like to use [Greenhouse] as a [...]

Valve makes a note: HUGE SUCCESS

Valve announced today that its Steam digital distribution system has exceeded 15 million users. In addition, an official press release states that Valve has seen 158% sales growth over the last holiday season, putting the company in a very strong position for 2008 and beyond. Steam’s rapid growth is likely due in part to the [...]