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In celebration of Activision’s ‘Publisher Weekend’ on Steam, PC users will now find heavy discounts, up to 67% off, on all Call of Duty titles and DLC content. The sale includes an assortment of games, bundles, individual expansion packs, and even full collections. We’ve rounded up the essentials below, but you’ll find the full list of over on the official Activision Publisher ...read more
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Cheating in multiplayer games isn't big or clever, but people still think they can successfully get away with it. That's a problem for the folks at Valve, who are constantly trying to ensure that Steam is a nice place to play. It's one of the reasons that the company has now revealed that it'll hand the power to police users straight to the developers behind each game on the service. Now, rather ...read more
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The latest in GTA 5 mods craziness on PC is a mod that lets you shoot fireworks out of your car. GTA 5 mods are aplenty. There’s the unique, the kind of dumb (but useful), and the downright insane. Then there’s this one, which adds a fireworks launcher to your vehicles. Taltigolt has a short video to show you all the craziness. There are a lot of flashy lights in it, so watch out if you ...read more
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Codemasters Dirt series has moved to Steam’s Early Access and is available to buy today for £24.99. The last entries in the series were released on consoles but Dirt Rally is exclusive to PC at this stage. The game launches with 17 cars and 36 stages with more free content promised. Here’s some of the first official screens:
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Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will ship with bionic eyes and civil unrest and neural control and whistleblowers. That’s as standard. But on PC, it’ll also launch with dedicated servers for all ranked matches, and an adjustable FOV slider in its options menu. “This is how we do it,” wrote Treyarch’s @pcdev. Previous Black Ops games boasted “100% dedicated servers” for ranked ...read more
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Michael Stoyke, one of Mojang’s PC programmers, has take to Twitter to reassure modders that updating their mods from Minecraft version 1.8 to the new 1.9 will be “less painful”. It means anyone optimising mods for the current 1.8 versions of Minecraft shouldn’t have to go through a terrible re-writing process when the next update is released.
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Steam Workshop’s controversial new paid mods feature has been axed in response to community feedback, Valve has announced. “We’re going to remove the payment feature from the Skyrim workshop. For anyone who spent money on a mod, we’ll be refunding you the complete amount,” Valve wrote in a Steam Community post.
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So how are those GTA 5 PC mods coming along? Quite nicely if we take a look at a batch of new mods for the game. It seems the community is having a fair bit of fun accessing restricted content and messing around with the local wildlife. Let’s start with a look at what happens when you pick up and drop a whale around Los Santos:
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Treyarch has revealed the minimum PC hardware requirements needed to run Call of Duty: Black Ops 3. The recommended specs for higher performance have not yet been shared. Neither has the hard drive space requirement, but that makes sense considering the game isn’t finished. Treyarch says one of its goals for Black Ops 3 PC development is to ensure feature-rich options for players with ...read more
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Valve's move to start selling community-created mods on its PC-game storefront looks like it could boost that $57 million user payout from earlier this year. And it's starting with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim -- one of the most popular moddable games. The process sounds pretty easy as Valve tells it, too. Upload your tweak to the Skyrim Creation Kit, agree to the new Steam Workshop terms, enter ...read more
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