http://store.steampowered.com/news/4101/
All PC versions leverage leading services for gamers around the world.Pre-purchasers receive original Mafia® now.
Valve and 2K Games today announced an agreement to power all PC versions of the highly anticipated Mafia® II with a host of Steamworks features. All Mafia II players will enjoy the benefits of the Steamworks features included in all PC versions, such as auto-updating, Steam Achievements, Statistics, downloadable content, and more.
Customers who pre-order the standard or Digital Deluxe Edition of Mafia II through select digital retailers, including Steam, will be given a free digital copy of the award-winning original Mafia® game that they can access and play now.
"Using Steamworks to power Mafia II has been a great benefit for 2K Games and our development team," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "It's meant that we can spend more time creating content and a great experience for our customers because we know that Steam and Steamworks are enabling these important features within the game."
"Mafia II is joining Sid Meier's Civilization® V as the next title to use Steamworks from 2K Games," said Gabe Newell, President of Valve. "Our focus for Steam is on building services that create value for our customers and for creators, and Mafia II, with its all-new game engine and inclusion of Steamworks, is a great example of that."
Mafia II is rated M for Mature by the ESRB and will be available in North America on August 24, 2010 and internationally beginning August 27, 2010. For more information visit www.steamgames.com.
2K Games is a division of 2K, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO).
About 2KFounded in 2005, 2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment software games for the console, PC, and handheld gaming systems through its three divisions: 2K Games, 2K Sports, and 2K Play. 2K publishes titles in today's most popular gaming genres, including first-person shooters, action, role-playing, real-time strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment. The 2K label has some of the most talented development studios in the world today, including Firaxis Games, Visual Concepts, Irrational Games, 2K Marin, 2K Australia, 2K Czech, Cat Daddy Games, and 2K China. In just a few short years, 2K launched the 2007 Game of the Year - BioShock®; continued the award-winning Sid Meier's Civilization® series; delivered the #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise with NBA® 2K10*; and broke new ground in the family entertainment market with its multi-million unit selling hit Carnival Games. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). For more information, please visit www.2K.com.
* According to 2009-2010 GameRankings.com and The NPD Group
About SteamThe leading online platform for PC games and digital entertainment, Steam delivers new releases and online services to over 25 million PC and Mac users around the world. For more information, please visit www.steamgames.com.
About ValveValve is an entertainment software and technology company founded in 1996 and based in Bellevue, Washington. For more information, please visit www.valvesoftware.com.
I don't really mind bad games. I mean i hate playing them, persay but a lot of games that IGN, Gamestop and company call bad aren't so bad. Some of my favorite niche games hit 6-7 range every time. And if people want to play a "bad" game, no skin off my back. The thing about Kane and Lynch that pretty much irritates me is that the publisher was caught pretty much threatening sites with advertising dollars if they gave a truthful reviews and it turns out, the industry just doesn't care, business as usual. Most the reviewers on these sites, imho, aren't that great or varied enough. It will be interesting to see what Elemental comes in at.
Isnt it a coincidence that now Steam looks a lot like gamespot with their new big splash screens?
I was so excited to hear Impluse landed Bethseda games like Fallout 3 only to be let down by the news that New Vegas will require steamworks to play. So now I can't purchase this title off of Impulse. Civ 5 is another game I was looking forward to download off of Impluse, but nope that will require steamworks as well. This is a very distrubing trend.
You know what would be more disturbing? Valve striking a deal with Microsoft, by which Steam becomes a windows service required for windows to run, on all computers. Your windows logins become steam logins too.
That would suck and somehow I suspect this wcould happen eventually to keep the money flowing into big pockets.
It would never happen. Steam has zero to offer the business world, and we all know Microsoft cares a heck of a lot more about businesses then they do gamers. Microsoft has pretty much done zero for gamers as of late, well less then zero if you count that monstrosity they call GFWL attempt. I am pretty sure when gamers asked for support, most us weren't asking for install limits and an their attempt to milk us for online play.
The scariest thing is that I think when MS started GFWL, they meant well. It's not malicious, they just completely misread the market and had the wrong people in charge. The company has serious problems with that right now, look at the total mess that is their mobile strategy as another example of the same thing.
Didn't MS already go through that with a so called required IE. That would sound like the makings of another anti-trust suit
I liked Mafia But 50$ for one-playthrough games I can't justify anymore. I did it with the SNES and Playstation but back then I didn't know the worth of money.
I plan to buy plenty of games during their next holiday sale but I want achievements! Also, their term of "revoke your account at any time for any reason" is a bit scary.
EULA contain lots of things which are there only because of lawsuit happy people in USA.
Steam accounts are banned only for doing thing which EULA say arent allowed (selling accounts, scamming users, chargebacks etc.).
Or if VAC messes up and Valve continues to do the ban first ask questions later approach. Sure, they made it "right" supposedly, but the fact is Valve has always been a little ban happy, taking accounts and games away from paying customers without much process involved. They said this last group linked to MW2 took place because of mistake they caught over a period of 2 weeks. How much you want to bet the people who claimed they should not be banned at the beginning of the first week got nothing but cookie cutter answers from Valve and some line to go buy the game again.
There is big difference between VAC ban and ban of entire account.
When account itself is banned entire account is gone.
When you are VAC banned you only cant play multiplayer in games using game engine in which you were banned.
Oh well then that makes it all better. After all, having Valve knee jerk in response to unvalidated information, taking away your ability to play games you actually paid for... much better.
Nobody is forcing you to use it....
Haha. Thanks. That made me chuckle. Excellent point .
(Are you getting the steam emails too? The ones that say "Use steam or the kitten gets it!"?)
More like "Use Steam or never play another overhyped, so-called AAA title again"
I'm actually surprised this post made it past the mods initially. The OP just looked like an advert/spam complete with links back to steamand no actual input by the poster. After seeing Rebel's replies now, I am starting to believe he works for steam.
I post such news because this is IMO good place to discuss games which are using Impulse biggest competitors platform.
I like Steam, but I also bought several games from Impulse. One of biggest reasons why I buy mostly from Steam is autoupdate feature.
btw.: I work for Telefonica O2.
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