How Steam Revived a Dead Game 234
Ask Stenum writes "Rock Paper Shotgun has an interesting write-up about how Unreal Tournament 3 has risen from the dead after Epic Games patched it, made a deal with Valve to put it on Steam and making it available for free for a weekend. It's interesting to see how a multiplayer game that's almost one and a half years old suddenly has become what it never could be; a game with multiple players. What other (maybe older?) online multiplayer games would you like to see make a comeback?"
UT3's resurgence was mentioned here briefly last week as part of our discussion on the future of game pricing.
A game I'd love to see (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:XvT ported to Linux! (Score:3, Interesting)
Or just Xwing Vs Tie Fighter on any format that is playable. I had a copy and have moved and been unable to find it.
I know they tacked part of this onto SWG and called it Jump to Light Speed but it just wasnt the same. I miss being able to go head to head at a lan party with different fighter configurations.
Re:Advertising (Score:3, Interesting)
With all the hype surrounding Daikatana for years prior to its release, I don't understand how anyone could accuse it of being a game with bad advertising.
Quakelive?? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Advertising (Score:2, Interesting)
Here, found a pict of the actual ad:
http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/01/Bitchadmikewilson.jpg [kotaku.com]
Re:A game I'd love to see (Score:5, Interesting)
download it here: http://www.tribesnext.com/ [tribesnext.com]
play it here:
66.162.166.53
98.233.154.66
Re:XvT ported to Linux! (Score:1, Interesting)
If you want a bit free of Xwing/TIE fighter - like fun, try This! [game-warden.com]
Free Battlestar Galactica sim. Very XvsT And amazing considering its cost (Did I say it was free?)
Re:Epic needs to fire its marketing staff (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:A game I'd love to see (Score:5, Interesting)
Bah, FUD (Score:3, Interesting)
How Verizon Killed Steam (Score:3, Interesting)
Every time I see a story mentioning Steam, I'm reminded how my Verizon-provided Actiontec router can't handle the Steam server browser [dslreports.com]. My only option appears to be to replace the provided router with my own.
I haven't tried fighting with Verizon about how their router sucks. I guess I have the feeling they're not going to do anything about it no matter what I do.
That said, they are still better than Comcast :-/
Re:A game I'd love to see (Score:1, Interesting)
Tribes 2.
You know why that one failed? Because it was shit compared to the original. Didn't stand up at all.
Tribes 2 never existed.