Valve has officially revealed the release date for its highly anticipate puzzle/shooter sequel, Portal 2. Fans will be able to return to Aperture Science and suck sentient turrets through giant tubes on February 9, 2011! The game was originally slated for release this year, but got pushed back, reasons unknown. Â Also, Stephen Merchant will be […]
When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the same machine. While we met our goal of making sure all of our customers had an acceptable gaming experience at launch, we have spent a large chunk of effort […]
Well, Valve thinks so, they just released updates to Portal, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One and Half-Life 2: Episode Two have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: Changes to take advantage of upcoming Mac graphics driver update Fixed door getting stuck as […]
Destructoid has been able to confirm today that Day 1 Studios upcoming first-person shooter, FEAR 3, won’t see release until 2011. The game was originally scheduled for late October 2010, just in time for Halloween. No reason for the delay was given by the Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment representative who confirmed the delay, and no […]
Apple has released to developers the first build of Mac OS X 10.6.5. The previous update to Mac OS X, 10.6.4 was released in mid-June, not long after Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. Mac OS X 10.6.5 build 10H525 weighs in at 517MB for the delta update and contains just five focus areas, two known issues and […]
I just did something that I never have done in the past…. And I shouldn’t be surprised at the results… I just read the “What’s the risk” help screen for the ActiveX installer prompt. Â You know the annoying prompt, where it asks “do you want to install this ActiveX control” or “What’s the risk?”. You […]
I am working on an python wrapper around the Indigo Restful interface, and discovered that the Indigo Server requires remote logins to be with a Digest based password. Â Is this good? Â Yes, indeed it is. Â Digest authentication is designed to be the significantly more secure and when your talking about the security of your home […]
Apple has today released an update for iOS 4 and iPad software. The update fixes a PDF exploit that came to light last week after it was used to aid in the Jailbreaking of iPhones. Fears were raised early last week that the exploit could be used for malicious purposes. The update which brings iOS […]