Insert PC Game News Here

[Spore]

Direct 2 Drive is starting a rental service. 5 dollars for 5 hours of gameplay. It's only available on 3 games right now, so it ain't nothin' spectacular, but it's interesting to see the digital market picking up more on renting. Onlive is already getting loads of money from it. Will Steam follow?

http://blog.direct2drive.com/2011/01/d2ds-rentals/

[KorJax]

OnLive is getting loads of money from it? Where did you hear this?

I still have to try that service.

[Spore]

OnLive is getting loads of money from it? Where did you hear this?

I still have to try that service.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/04/online...valuation/

One can also assume that from a lot of major hardware manufacturers like Vizio stating they will build the service into their television, the above estimation of the company's worth, and their well financed plans to spread swiftly out of America to Europe that Onlive is doing something right. I have no idea why every single gamer in the world thinks they are dying or something.

[HeK]

Kinda news, more like a history lesson: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/20...ntures.ars

[Spore]

Bulletstorm requires a constant online connection to play.

Edit: Developers at People Can Fly have stated that this is super duper not true. Happy times.

[Spore]

New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Edit: And better voice.

- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz

[HeK]

- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz

But how is the latency?

[backfire]

New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?

[Spore]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?
[/quote]

I hear it's 1GB. Not bad for free storage of screenshots.

[backfire]

[quote author=backfire link=topic=4314.msg194652#msg194652 date=1296530888]
[quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
New Steam beta adds an interesting new feature. Press F12 while in your games to take a screenshot that is automatically stored on Steam's servers and viewable on your community page.

Remember hearing about some files related to this a while. Good to see steam constantly upgrading. Any word on how many pictures you can store?
[/quote]

I hear it's 1GB. Not bad for free storage of screenshots.
[/quote]

Jeeze, I was thinking like... a couple megabytes. First saw a screenshot from someone and steam just compresses it down to 800x600, then I saw someone hotlink the full sized version at 1920×1080. This is awesome.

[beep beep diglett]

yeah but it also crashes p much every 10 mins

[Spore]

yeah but it also crashes p much every 10 mins

That was a memory leak with some systems. It seems to be fixed now.

[Versus]

mine was crashing every 30 seconds

[Kirby]

[quote author=Spore link=topic=4314.msg194618#msg194618 date=1296517373]
- Changed microphone voice input from 11khz to 16 khz
- Changed voice output from 8khz to 16khz

But how is the latency?
[/quote]


Knowing valve, they added additional payload without taking steps to compensate for latency, so it's probably worse....

[Spore]

A revolution in military shooters is here.

Duty Calls- the most epically epic game of all time

Nobody really knows what it is. Some marketing thing for Bulletstorm or something, looking at the video description.
Download here: www.thedutycalls.com[url=http://]

Edit: Yeah, it's actually pretty funny.

[Versus]

lol

downloading

[Spore]

RANK UP! SO REALISTIC!

Edit: Jesus, I just read the feature list for this.

1. Duty Vision™ slows down the action so you can unload a storm of bullets
2. Immersive dialogue from the front lines
3. Cold, calculated realism
4. Killing animations motion captured from real actors
5. True-life reloading system allows for mistakes in putting the cartridge in the gun
6. Iconic sound effects
7. Thwart an enemy threat that could topple the country and possibly the world
8. Significant and historically accurate props

First letters read...

[Spore]

A durpload of Deus Ex news.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=420706

[Versus]

http://kotaku.com/5751373/your-first-bri...tlefield-3

[Spore]

The difficulty options in the new Deus Ex are:

Casual
Normal
Deus Ex