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Man alive: Valve owns 70 percent of the digital distribution business

CrunchGear  Nov 20 09

There really is something to be said about being the first to the dance. I'm pretty sure we can all agree that Steam was the first big digital distribution service for video games, and I also think we can all agree that it was something of a success. But how big a success? Stardock, which owns the Impulse distribution service (and published Sins of a Solar Empire), believes that Steam enjoys 70 percent market share of the digital distribution business. Full story...

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Yahtzee takes on Heavy Rain

CrunchGear  2 hours ago

The latest entry in the games-as-art argument, Heavy Rain is the spiritual secret to the controversial Indigo Prophecy, one of the rare "interactive storytelling" type games that has made a dent on the market since Phantasmagoria.

Water runs uphill in mysterious silicon etching

CrunchGear  3 hours ago

Bet you weren't expecting that headline tonight, were you? Well, it's about as literal as I could get.

Xbox 360 Slim on the way?

CrunchGear  4 hours ago

Some rumors are swirling regarding a possible "slim" version of the Xbox 360. And why not? The console being sold is the same one they were selling.

Metroid Other M: No Nunchuk, No Cry

CrunchGear  4 hours ago

When Nintendo first unveiled Metroid Prime, fans were skeptical (if not downright apeshit). For a 2D adventure game based on exploration, how could it possibly work in first person? Long story short, Metroid Prime was pretty much universally loved upon release, and now that the Metroid Prime trilogy has gone on to become something of [.

“Bloom” light shows what’s possible with 3D-printed decor

CrunchGear  5 hours ago

Doesn’t this look like something you’d see in an alien’s house? It is in fact real, and is a lamp design by Patrick Jouin for MGX, a group that does lighting via 3D printing techniques.

Don’t Call Tech Support. Try Orkin Instead!

CrunchGear  5 hours ago

Someone passed this post along to us, and since our Chinese is limited here in CrunchGear-land, I’m afraid we can’t vouch for it.

Generation I: Middle Children of the Information Age

CrunchGear  6 hours ago

Every generation thinks that they are the first. The first to feel this way or that, the first to make this or that revelation, the first to do and make things that we find later have been done and made since before we could record their doing and making.

Video: EA Sports MMA trailer (but where’s Fedor?)

CrunchGear  7 hours ago

Man, two new trailers in the same day. Our cup runneth over, and so forth! Anyhow, here’s the newest trailer of EA Sports MMA, which should hit stores “late 2010.

Nice knowing you, AdBlock, but it’s time to move on

CrunchGear  7 hours ago

Today's a very important day in the history of me using the Internet, a history that began in late 1996.

Incandescent bulb production left in the dark

CrunchGear  8 hours ago

Call Greenpeace, they’ll want to hear this. Today marked the end of 120 years of mass-produced incandescent bulbs for Toshiba.



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