Tag Archives: update

Valve’s updating the audio codec used for voice chat in Steam to SILK, the codec developed and used by Skype.

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Frighteningly enthralling iPhone accelerometer-a-thon Tilt To Live is about to swallow your competitive life; the developer has heavily hinted that the next title update will add multiplayer.

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The Xbox 360 version of Left 4 Dead received a bit of spit and polish with a recent patch, with the happy result of restoring achievements to those who lost their progress thanks to add-on The Sacrifice.

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Blizzard have made Starcraft II’s v1.2 patch live, unleashing an enormous number of bug fixes, improving the map editor, and most excitingly, introducing a Master League for the truly elite. Worr.

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Square’s about to patch Final Fantasy XIV to fix a lot of travel and questing issues in the MMO.

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A patch? On the Wii? Get out of town.

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War is hell.

Win it using this wand that looks like a lollipop.

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Let’s say you’re an Engineer. Right now, you’re probably feeling neglected and dejected while watching other classes play/kill you with their shiny new toys.

Don’t get too bent out of shape about it, though, because it looks like good things are finally coming to those who automate.

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Grab your paper glasses, folks, because this post is in 3D!

Wait. Did you actually fall for that? Wow. You look so ridiculous right now, squinting and straining while modeling your movie theater chic. How embarrassing! Shame it’s all for naught.

If this post was running the PlayStation 3′s 3.30 system software update, though, it might be a different story.

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Not to be outdone by a worldwide PS3 outage, the original catastrophically malfunctioning ‘bot, GlaDOS, is back in the news today. Or at least, her game is.

Valve’s quietly released a new update for smash-hit brain-bender Portal that includes one new achievement and an incalcuable amount of mystery.

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Tired of staring at the same old grey-with-a-hint-of-grey Steam menus? Well then, Valve knows just what you’re looking for:

Some new grey-with-a-hint-of-grey Steam menus!

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Microsoft’s Major Nelson has sent word (via Twitter, naturally) that invites for the New Social Networking Experience preview program will be along shortly.

“The preview schedule: We close sign ups later today and (if all goes well) send first wave of notification emails Friday,” he said.

And that’s all he wrote.

Like a mild-mannered Joe Everyman who suits up and fights crime by the moonlight, the recent Nintendo DSi Facebook Connect update does more than advertised. In addition to plastering Facebook with embarassing snapshots of you and your friends, it renders many DS flashcarts useless, reports MCV.

iPlayer, EZVi, and AK2I are among those thwarted by the Facebook-clad crusader, meaning that illegally downloaded games will no longer function in conjunction with them.

There ya go, Yves. Nintendo’s got your back.

This week’s SingStar SingStore SingUpdate is fairly huge, with phat beats from the likes of Coldplay, Radiohead, Kelly Clarkson, The Offspring, Cheap Trick, and more.

We’ve stored the list’s girth after the break, as we’re not even sure if Superman could leap it in a single bound.

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According to this, Sony’s going to make a major update to the Home beta next week, including changes to the UI, the graphics engine, the addition of the Marketplace building, the first look at game-launching and a resolution bump (back) up to 1080p.

There’s absolutely loads of stuff through that link. There’s no set release date for the online PS3 service yet, but it sounds like it can’t be that far off. Definitely take a look.