"First off, Merry (late) Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!
After the festivities, what’s better than sitting down and having a good gaming session, or watching some TV? Well, an ARG by Valve of course! The sleuths of the Internet have once more stumbled on something very interesting involving Steam. Of course, when Valve is involved, everything immediately turns to the attention of a possible announcement of Half-Life 3. The long awaited third game of the series has been constantly searched for by fans for years, and the total collected information on the subject is quite vast. Suffice to say, the information found so far seems to indicate that, indeed, Half-Life 3 is being made."
Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
Steam now lets you add your hardware specs to reviews, helping players share performance details and make smarter buying decisions.
honestly it should be mandatory some of these people playing on a 10 year old laptop saying "game dont work"
The Quebec Games Celebration returns to Steam with over 300 Quebec-made games on sale from February 16 to 23, plus a new developer showcase.
Hopefully not something for DoTA 2
Half Life 3 Valve come on
I'm sorry, but not even an ARG can convince me that this is actually in development.
I'll only believe it when they actually announce it. However, it's been too long that I think it's best to just leave it. They know they won't be able to live up to the hype.
I'm a huge fan of L4D and Half Life, at this point i really hope they reveal at least ONE game this year.. It has been almost 2 years since those leaked L4D2 plantation level slides running on Source 2 and still no news!
Can't wait.. But my PC is ready.
just confirm hl3 already and i can die in peace
Not gonna happen. They could never create a game to live up to the hype of half life 3. And valve knows it