Valve announced today it will bring Steam, Valve’s gaming service, and Source, Valve’s gaming engine, to the Mac.  Steam and Valve’s library of games including Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available in April.

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The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today announced that The Sims™ 3 Ambitions Expansion pack is in development and will launch in June 2010. As the second expansion pack to The Sims 3, the best-selling PC game of 2009, The Sims 3 Ambitions allows players to pursue a variety of exciting paths and careers in their Sims’ lives that in turn affect their overall gameplay experience and neighborhood. While on the job, the player has direct control over their Sims’ work and can choose how to spend their days. Players can opt to make house calls and save lives as a doctor or choose the devious route and test experimental medicine on patients, be the hero firefighter tackling raging infernos or smashing everything in sight at the victim’s home with an axe, or take a shot at solving cases as an investigator, nicely convincing sources to divulge secrets or roughing up perpetrators in a dark alley to get information.

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BioWare™, a division of Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), and TransGaming, Inc. (TSX-V:TNG) today announced plans to release Dragon Age™: Origins for the Mac® on December 21. The critically acclaimed, dark fantasy epic will be available to Mac Players as a digital download where they can choose between the Standard or Digital Deluxe version.

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New from the creators of the Award winning action RPG, Depths of Peril, Soldak Entertainment today announced Din’s Curse, a single player and co-op multiplayer action RPG (role-playing game) for Windows and Mac. Choose one of 141 class combinations and journey to an infinite number of dynamically generated towns with vastly different problems. Every game is a surprise! Your actions have real consequences in this dynamic, evolving world. Your choices actually matter!

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Building tombs is an entirely new way to enjoy Build and Buy Modes in The Sims 3 World Adventures and adds a new element to the adventure gamplay as a first for The Sims. In this Tomb Creation 101 update, we’ll start by describing some of the dozens of Tomb Objects and offer a tip. Next time we’ll reveal additional Tomb Objects, examples of setting Triggers and Activated Behaviors, and more tips. Let’s get started!

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The Sims fans around the world will be rockin’ out to new Simlish music in The Sims™ 3 World Adventures Expansion Pack for the PC and Mac this later this year. The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc. today announced that in The Sims 3 World Adventures, players will have their chance to get down, Simlish-style, to artists like GRAMMY award-winner Nelly Furtado, rising star Pixie Lott, German sensation Stefanie Heinzmann, breaking new rock band Matt & Kim, global indie dance rockers Young Punx, and more!

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In the coming winter, the role-playing world of Antaloor will once again open its portals to PC, Mac and Next-Gen consoles. Following the fantastic worldwide sales success of the game’s famous predecessor, TopWare Interactive will once again open a radically new chapter in the fantasy world of Reality Pump.

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The EA Play Label of Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced that the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ videogame will be available in stores across the globe this week. Available on multiple platforms, the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince videogame allows players to experience all the magic, adventure and fun of the Warner Bros. Pictures’ film based on J.K. Rowling’s sixth book in the Harry Potter™ series.

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The Spore™ universe is expanding with infinite adventures! Today, Maxis™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) studio, announced that Spore™ Galactic Adventures, the expansion to the critically-acclaimed game Spore, is now available at North American retailers and will hit store shelves internationally on June 25th. Designed to expand the Spore universe, Spore Galactic Adventures delivers hilarious new adventures to players who aspire to become their own space captain, beam down to strange new planets, create customized adventures, and take their favorite Spore creature from zero to galactic hero!

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Today Ubisoft announced that it has expanded its portfolio of Mac titles for digital download and will introduce Mac versions of its games to retail through its partnership with TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), a leading developer of portability technologies for the electronic entertainment industry.

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Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. today announced that the company will be releasing mobile games for the iPhone and iPod touch based on four of its top-selling franchises in North America. Metal Gear Solid Touch, Silent Hill: The Escape, DanceDanceRevolution S Lite and Frogger will all be specifically designed to take full advantage of the iPhone’s unique touch screen capabilities.

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Continuing the trend of new media today, we’ve posted 18 new screenshots of the eagerly anticipated The Sims 3, EA latest people simulator.

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GameMill Entertainment and Gunnar Games today announced the release of a new Hidden Object casual game, titled Lost Secrets^TM Bermuda Triangle. The product will offer players the ability to explore a series of sunken wrecks and shipyards near the Bermuda Triangle.

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Redwood City, CA – August 14, 2008 –The wait is almost over! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore™ the most anticipated video game of the year from the creator of The Sims^TM, has gone gold and will be available for the Mac and PC at retailers September 5 in Europe and September 7 in North America and Asia Pacific. Spore™ Creatures for Nintendo DS™ and Spore™ Origins for mobile phones will also be available globally September 7.

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At the recent QuakeCon event, id Software released two new images of their upcoming first-person shooter/racing title, Rage.  The game is being developed for the PC. Mac, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

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Saturday proved to be a big day for gamers as Diablo 3 was announced for the PC and Mac.  The official website is up and features a whole slew of information including videos, screenshots, character classes, world details, background story, and more.  No wod on a release date but don’t be surprised if we see near the holidays.

Guildford, UK – June 25, 2008 – For the ultimate Spore™ fan, Maxis, an Electronic Arts Inc (NASDAQ: ERTS) studio today announced the limited Galactic Edition of the highly-anticipated game from the creators of The Sims™. This special box will contain the ‘Making of Spore’ DVD, ‘The Art of Spore’ hardback mini-book, a fold-out Spore poster, and a premium 100-page Galactic Handbook. The Galactic Edition will also feature a DVD documentary from the National Geographic Channel called “How to Build a Better Being”.

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EA released new details on the Tribal Stage, the third stage in the evolutionary process of Spore.  Along with it are 29 new screenshots showing off the new stage.
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EA released a few more details concerning Spore.  The facts focus on the Creature Stage, the second stage of the Spore universe.

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We have 10 new images of Spore, Maxis’ newest life simulator for the PC and Mac.

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GameTap has ensured a way not to leave Mac users out in the cold with their latest update.

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Reykjavík, Iceland and Toronto, Canada – November 7, 2007 – CCP, one of the world’s largest independent game developers, and TransGaming Inc. (TSX-V: TNG), a leading developer of software portability products for the electronic entertainment industry, today announced the availability of EVE Online, a leading massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), on the Macintosh and Linux platforms. With this release, EVE Online is now available on the most widely used operating systems – Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux.

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