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Ticket to Ride Steams Onto PC Ticket to Ride is now available on Steam for PCs. The game costs $9.99 and comes with the USA map — but for the first week you'll also get the map of Europe for free. If you download it, you'll be able to join in games with other players on Steam, iPad, the Mac desktop app, and on Days of Wonder's online portal — so you don't have to worry about showing up and finding nobody there. www.wired.com
PC download charts: 'Arma II,' 'Tropico 4' Arma II takes first place on Steam on Monday, May 21, thanks to free zombie add-on Day Z, while benevolent dictatorship sim Tropico 4 enjoys top five placings on GameStop's Impulse and Green Man Gaming. news.yahoo.com
PC download charts: Zombie mod 'Day Z' fuels 'Arma II' resurgence A promotion on Portal 2 staves off the late arrival of Modern Warfare 3: Collection 1 in the Steam charts, while a free mod for Arma II: Combined Operations ensures renewed interest in the three-year-old title. news.yahoo.com
Diablo III Sets First Day Sales Record For PC Games Blizzard Entertainment announced Wednesday that Diablo 3 , their newest action/role-playing video game for PCs, has sold more than 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours following its release, setting a new sales record for the platform. Furthermore, according to Brian Crecente of The Verge , that figure doesn't include an additional 1.2 million gamers who received Diablo III for free after ... www.redorbit.com
Play Civilization V (PC/Mac) for free this weekend And if you decide you like ruling the world, you can buy the game outright for just $7.50. Originally posted at Marketplace Blog reviews.cnet.com
Aeria Games launches beta for free-to-play PC gaming platform Free-to-play MMO publisher Aeria Games has launched an open beta for its own PC gaming digital distribution platform, with a focus on bringing free-to-play titles to core gamers. Aeria Ignite allows developers to distribute their games with Aeria's analytics system and monetization features integrated, and the publisher says that the platform has 200,000 daily active users as of now, thanks to a ... www.gamasutra.com
EA's Origin attracting crowdfunded projects with free distribution Electronic Arts will allow developers with crowd-funded projects to release their PC games through its download platform Origin, without having to pay any distribution fees for 90 days. This program is designed to allow EA to lure more studios to its nascent digital distribution service, and enable developers to reach Origin's audience of more than 12 million registered users worldwide with ... www.gamasutra.com
Max Payne 3 PC: Developer Interview We caught up with Kevin Hoare, Lead PC Designer on Max Payne 3, to talk about what Rockstar has done to optimize the game for PC enthusiasts. Pour yourself a drink and join us for some sweet, sweet talk about scalable texture filters! www.pcworld.com
Review: OnLive Desktop brings the PC to tablets So you love your iPad, but you wish you could work on Microsoft Office software, watch Flash video and generally have more of a PC-like experience? OnLive Desktop is one way you can. news.yahoo.com
Free Game of the Day: Warlock Bentspine The Game: Warlock Bentspine Genre: Scoliosis Platformer Platform: PC (Windows) The Scoop: Very similar to yesterday's free game Ninja Senki, Warlock Bentspine is a greats 80s-style action-platformer in the vein of Mega Man. Gamers play as Jacob Bentspine, out to save Stinker City from th... pc.ign.com
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