Steam Mobile is now live and available for download! With this new app you can have the benefit of keeping up with Steam sales, chatting with friends and browsing community groups, viewing user profiles and reading game news, directly through your mobile phone. Get it now at the App Store or in the Android Market.
(I love that they’re doing this. I chat on Steam with my friends more often than I do any other service).
According to an email I just received from Valve, the Steam Forums were hacked on Sunday evening, November 6. The perpetrators apparently broke through not only the forums but the Steam database as well, accessing usernames, passwords, encrypted credit card information, email and physical address, and purchase histories. So far only a few accounts have been affected and there is no evidence that the information has been used for other purposes; however, Steam is asking that you monitor your credit card information closely just in case. You will also be required to change your password the next time you sign into Steam.
Raw deal. Seems the security threats will never end, no matter what platform you’re on.
Well, I finished up Alice: Madness Returns last night (screen shots from that later), and ended up my gaming evening on a horrifying note with Source mod Nightmare House 2. Utilizing Source SDK Base 2007, the free tool from Steam, the story opens up with a prologue called simply Nightmare House (probably the revamped “original”, which no longer is available as a separate file). I managed to get through it last night and was thoroughly spooked—this is probably the scariest thing I’ve played since Amnesia, and that’s saying quite a bit. And hey, I had to pay for Amnesia. Nightmare House 2 is completely free through Desura.com.
As for the gameplay, it oddly reminds me a lot of Dementium, the horror game on Nintendo DS. The enemies are incredibly similar, and you spend much of the time following a blood trail into unremarkable looking gray doors. There was even a moment where I raided a weapon’s locker that was enough to evoke deja vu. Luckily the similarities end there, as Nightmare House is much scarier than Dementium. I still can’t believe I get to play this amazing content for free.
After the promise of a June, and then “summer” and then “mid September” release, Portal 2 DLC chapter Peer Review has finally arrived. This co-op content features new challenges for P-Body and Atlus as they face the wrath of GlaDOS once again. A challenge mode has also been added to single and multiplayer, with leaderboards to compare to scores with the community and your friends.
To celebrate this momentous occasion (read: apologize for “Valve time”), Portal 2 is now 50% off on Steam through Thursday, 4 PM PST. Do the science math—that’s Portal 2 for $15!
