A brand new gaming console can really be a beautiful thing. After all, you’re getting brand new features never dreamed of in a console before, all while getting the absolute best looking graphics imaginable. There’s a bit of a problem with new consoles, however: they’re usually pretty damn...

One of the big announcements back at CES was made by someone you might not have expected: Valve. We’ve known for a while that the company has been looking into entering the hardware market, but it was still a surprise to hear them make a formal announcement (after all, we’ve been waiting how...

When it came to video games Australia was never exactly paradise. For many years the country didn’t have anything more than an MA15+ rating, meaning that brutal games only meant for adults were either banned or heavily watered down in order to be eligible for the MA15+ rating. Luckily, last year...

Earlier this week we heard a bit about the new Steam Box, being developed by Xi3. At this time many people have been assuming that Xi3’s offering is the full Steam Box, but it turns out that that’s a bit of a misconception. Instead, what we’ve found out that the Xi3 Steam Box, codenamed...

For over a decade now if you wanted a console you were basically forced to pick up a console from Microsoft, Nintendo, or Sony. Sure, if you wanted to hook up a PC to your TV and make it work like a console you could do that, but that was an option only available to the most hardcore and driven of gamers....

For many people Linux is their operating system of choice, and it’s easy to see why that is the case. Most distributions of Linux are free and it’s open source, meaning that if you have the knowledge you can write out the code to tweak the OS in any way that you might want to do. There is one...

You can stop violently refreshing the Steam Store page every time you get on your computer, because the sale we’ve all been waiting for is here. There are daily deals, flash deals, publisher packs, voting, and yes, a new badge to be earned. The big deals are on The Prince of Persia, Hitman, and...

In what has to be the first of its kind, Valve has decided to pull The War Z from their store. That’s right, the outcry from the gaming community has been loud enough that Valve decided that the game’s listing needed a second look. The interesting thing is that Valve didn’t just pull the...