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Archive for July 2008:

Player statistics return with a vengeance

July 17th, 2008 :: General :: 14 Responses (Feed)

Steam’s player statistics were taken down the other week, to a small amount of wailing and teeth gnashing in the forums. Now they’re back, and better than ever.

Because every damn game on Steam is up there.

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Good Old Games!

July 10th, 2008 :: Other Services :: 5 Responses (Feed)

Impulse isn’t inspiring much writing from me at the moment (executive summary: Steam without residency), but CD Projekt’s freshly-announced Good Old Games is another story. Shacknews has the details:
Located at GOG.com and slated to launch in September, the online store will sell DRM-free digital downloads of old-school PC games at $5.99 or $9.99 a pop. [...]

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