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Ever since Steam announced that they'd be announcing three things very shortly, there has been a lot of theorizing. Some of it has been based on actual evidence - Left 4 Dead 3 showing up in a picture from Valve HQ for instance - and some of it has been a little less... scientific - OH MY GOD, THERE ARE THREE ANNOUNCEMENTS, HALF LIFE 3 CONFIRMED. It seems those ideas are wrong, however, as Marc Laidlaw confirms that the three announcements are specifically about Steam.

A new console is to be announced next week, this time from PC giant Steam. Rumours of a Steam Box have been prolific over the last few years and it appears there's no smoke without fire. A countdown timer went up on the Steam website today, promising a new way of "connecting the dots" for gamers in the living room.

This is one of those stories that will be incredible if true. A Redditor, ShakaShaka, is claiming to have been posted a free boxed copy of Mists of Pandaria. In a post entitled “Blizzard is getting desperate,” ShakaShaka shows off the package he claims was from Blizzard, and some of the convincing marketing materials he received alongside it. Without any history to go along with it, it’s hard to know the exact circumstances of the package being delivered. Outside of…

Finally! GTAV is mere hours away from releasing worldwide. Are you excited? Are you one of the lucky few who got it early? Needless to say, it's my most anticipated game since.. well since GTAIV I suppose. Still though, let's not forget all those other releases this week too. Hot Wheels, PES 2014 and Zelda HD are just some of the games brave enough to release this week.

We all knew it would be only a matter of time before someone used Oculus Rift for something less savoury than becoming a space ship pilot or exploring villages. Austrian developer ThriXXX are hard at work creating a different sort of experience, an experience that will allow you to "look in on the fantasies of others."

Owners of Project Zomboid on the Desura platform will now be able to redeem their codes through the Steam platform, ahead of the games release through the Early Access initiative. If you’ve already bought Zomboid through Desura, simply go to the “keys” section of your account and your Steam key will be there waiting for you. The developers, via their Greenlight page, stress that this isn’t technically an official release, but rather the first step towards an official release. By…

A petition has been launched at Change.org in the hopes of preventing Rockstar from ever releasing a PC version of Grand Theft Auto V. Why? "So PC gamers learn their lesson and stop stealing games."

EA and DICE have revealed their recommended specs for Battlefield 4. If you want the game to looks its best on PC, you’re may just need to upgrade… Minimum system requirements for Battlefield 4: OS: Windows Vista SP2 32-bitProcessor (AMD): Athlon X2 2.8 GHzProcessor (Intel): Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHzMemory: 4 GBHard Drive: 30 GBGraphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon 3870Graphics card (NVIDIA): Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTGraphics memory: 512 MB Recommended system requirements for Battlefield 4: OS: Windows 8 64-bitProcessor (AMD):…

As the Rockstar behemoth that is GTAV casts its massive shadow over the horizon, new releases cower in fear and stay indoors waiting for the dust to settle before venturing outside. Or at least that's the impression I get from this week's meager list of upcoming titles.

The PC version of Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, SEGA's re-release of the classic Disney-inspired Genesis/Megadrive platformer, is locked at 30FPS. This puts it on par with the console version, but fans who were holding out for smoother animations are very disappointed.