RPS, in addition to taking us back to the glory days of Action Half-Life, is currently offering up a LIVE BLOG from Valve!
What’s it about? Steamworks of course. But for more exciting details you’ll have to tune in.I'll be sure and update this news post as the information arrives from RPS.
And by “tune in� we of course mean, “refresh the site to see if changed every minute or so because we’re about as technically competent as fingerless cavemen.� You know, that’s unless we can’t get online at the last minute, or if Gabe Newell confiscates my Eee. It should at least be an entertaining mess.
- Choice Selections from the Live Feed
- Retail sales spiked when Valve held a free DoD: Source weekend. 28% more retail units sold than on Steam during that period.
- Steamworks allows for auto-updates to be used on all games, and allows developers to continue working up until a game's release instead of halting 45 days prior to its slated release.
- Steamworks also helps on localization and monitoring where sales are highest, spotting new markets, or where sales are struggling.
- 191% growth for Steam from previous year, with 21 different languages supported, and some 15 million users.
- Newell states that PC gaming is not dead, citing that the naysayers only look at retail sales but they ignore the digital distribution methods and other means of reaching gamers.
- The medic was the least played class in TF2, hence the push to update him first. More people playing medic leads to higher scores all around, so says the data gathered by Valve.
- "Meet the Sniper" is the next up in the "Meet the..." videos. "It’s possibly the funniest so far."
- Driver auto-updating, calendar event support, official communities, and a system requirement checker are in the works for Steam.
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