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Remember that crazy idea Valve had of allowing players to trade items across games and games for items? How it all started with that great big Valve class-based FPS turned business model idea incubator, Team Fortress 2? Well, it's all come to a head across TF2, Portal 2, and Sega F2P MMO, Spiral … [Read more...] about Steam Team Fortress 2, Portal 2 In-Game Item Cross-Trading Is Now Live

Something tells us landing a job at one of the planet's leading video game companies wasn't what former director of the US National Cyber Security Center Philip Reitinger had in mind back in his college years. Nevertheless, PR makes for strange bedfellows and we've certainly seen stranger than the … [Read more...] about Sony Names Ex-Homeland Security Director As “Chief Security Intelligence Officer”

If you have been one of the first users to download the gory zombie PC game "Dead Island" from Valve's Steam service, don't worry if you are experiencing a few problems, as the developers might have released the wrong version altogether. Reports are coming in of PC gamers who have downloaded the … [Read more...] about Dead Island Developers Release Wrong PC Version Via Steam?

Its a well known practice for a hardware manufacture to include free games with high end graphics cards and the like, but AMD has accidentally leaked 1.7 million DiRT 3 game activation keys in a recent security blunder. Codemasters and AMD had joined forces to run a DiRT 3 promotion … [Read more...] about AMD Accidentally Releases 1.7 Million DiRT 3 Keys (updated)

European game retailer and no doubt winner of many a Concise Retailer Name award, Game, has apparently taken to removing certain Xbox 360 consoles from their shelves. To be fair though, only 20 GB and non-HDMI Xbox 360s are getting the boot, and a fair portion of those things shouldn't have seen the … [Read more...] about Game Stops Selling Used RROD Prone Xbox 360s