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Activision, Double Fine Join With Steam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the guns-wars-and-psychics dept.

Gamespot reports on the expected arrival of Double Fine's Psychonauts on Steam, and the unexpected announcement that Activision is now offering games on the service. Titles from the company include Call of Duty, Call of Duty 2, and Gun, which was developed by Neversoft. From that article: "Whenever Valve does open the digital spigot on the four Activision games, they will join an increasing number of third-party titles available on Steam. This week, Majesco's critical hit Psychonauts was made available on the service, and Ubisoft's Dark Messiah of Might & Magic will launch on the service later this month."

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  1. As much as I don't like Steam... by SaidinUnleashed · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If Psychonauts gets more recognition, I'll be happy. I picked up that game for :10bux: at Half-Price Books and have felt bad about it because it is such an awesome game and well worth the original proce of 50bux. Go buy this game. It is GREAT.

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  2. Thats not all by crabpeople · · Score: 2, Interesting
    "The whole calling home thing is the copy protection to make sure that you are validated to play the game."

    Thats not all that they are doing with steam. With episode one (and im sure everything else) they actually track such things as how many times you die, by what, what you were doing at the time, how much time it takes you to pass different parts, etc... This is kind of worrying to me, because if they are tracking that, what else are they tracking? Do they log keystrokes too? would they admit it if they did?

    Don't get me wrong, episode 1 and halflife 2 are great games, but when I heard about the level of data logging that they do, you cant help but be a bit scared.
    I didn't know about the resale BS.. This is why I avoided steam for so long, but HL2 is such a compelling title that I sacraficed security for a gravity gun. Its really sad how easy it was for me to compromise my security for a little bit of teh shiny..

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  3. eye heart steam by spyrochaete · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I used to be the biggest naysayer of Steam, but now that I have a stable internet connection I just love it. I purchased Psychonauts for $20 this morning and all 3.5GB were downloaded in under 3 hours. I can't wait to get home to play it without requiring a CD in the drive.

    Thus far Valve is a great publisher\distributor and I have no qualms about giving them my loyalty as a conusmer. However, it's a little disturbing to see in the EULA that I do not own any of the games I've paid for - I only rent them. I admire 3D Realms for shipping boxed copies to anyone who bought Prey over the now defunct Triton online distribution service, and I sincerely hope Valve will provide at least a means of playing games the sad day Steam evaporates.

  4. Don't forget GUN! by twistedsymphony · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Psychonauts is an awesome game, I bought it for the Xbox when it came out.

    I think it's also worth mentioning that Gun is equally an awesome game that didn't get much recognition. For those who haven't played it it's an "old-west" action game some RPG and GTA style elements thrown in, the graphics aren't the greatest but the game has a solid storyline and is damn fun with lots of stuff to explore for plenty of replay value. Most people I talk to either haven't played it/don't know anything about it, or have and loved it.

    the COD games are excellent as well but I don't think they need any introduction

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