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Apple Releases Graphics Update for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.4)–Brings Stability and Performance Improvements

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Apple has pushed a new Snow Leopard Graphics Update that aims to bring stability and performance improvements for games and graphic intensive applications. It mainly fixes issues with games from Steam including Portal and Team Fortress 2. Steam had said in the past in reply to slow gaming frame rates on Mac that they’re working with Apple, Nvidia and ATI to improve the gaming performance on Macs. This update seems to be a part of their work.Snow Leopard Graphics Update for 10.6.4

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Half Life 2 set to release today for Mac OS X users – 6 years after PC users got it

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You read it right. Half Life 2 will be coming to Mac today after a long time since its release way back in 2004. While it was a great game and could be considered as good old wine, but it’s still old – in technology terms that’s huge. But still, something is better than nothing.

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Play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 for free this Weekend

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is an amazing first person shooter game for Windows PCs, Play Station 3 and Xbox 360 which was released in early 2009. Most enthusiast PC gamers would have definitely played this remarkable game and if you haven’t played it till now then you have a great chance to check out the multi-player gameplay of this game absolutely free this weekend.

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Get the PC Game of the Year Fallout 3 for 50% off this weekend!

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Fallout 3 PC Gamer Game of the year 50% off Steam

Steam is offering a weekend deal on Fallout 3 at 50% off, which makes it $19.99 instead of $39.99! Fallout 3 is an award winning and critically acclaimed game with an average rating of 91% for the PC version. It features open ended game play and flexible character-leveling system. Fallout 3 was chosen as the game of the year by Game Developers Choice Awards, IGN, Gamasutra, Gamspot, Xbox Magazine, Gamespy, Gamesradar, GameTrailers and others. It also received 4 DLC ( downloadable content packages ) which extend the game.

Take advantage of the Weekend Deal by Steam and get Fallout 3!

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Microsoft going the Steam distribution way for games

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Ars Technica has an interesting story on Microsoft from GDC 2009. Microsoft made announcements for updates to Games for Windows and new anti-piracy measures. Microsoft announced ‘DRM-less’ games which would come with anti-piracy protection but wouldn’t be called DRM. According to Drew Johnston, product unit manager for Windows Gaming Platform:

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