The Steam Review

Mark Healey’s Rag Doll Kung Fu will be available on North American store shelves from August, through ‘developer-friendly’ independent publisher Merscom.

Midway have brought Epic Games’ back catalogue from Atari, ahead of the launch of the ailing publisher’s GamersFirst budget range.

Reports of a new storefront for Steam and the hosting of images from three Activision-published games on it have been debunked by Valve as configuration slip-ups relating to run-of-the-mill development.

Mark Healey has founded ‘Media Molecule’, his new development studio, but is slanting its projects to publishers instead of utilising digital distribution.

The long load times that currently plague large numbers of Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 users have been traced back to Steam and its new ‘virtual drive’ system, used by Red Orchestra to access its GCFs.

Nintendo and Valve have announced a partnership covering the digital distribution of games for the Revolution’s ‘Virtual Console’, and the provision of a large number of back-catalogue titles for the PC, both through Steam.