Looks like Steams current undergoing maintenance message is due to some dodgy goings on, I just received this message from valvesoftware.com and it does indeed appear steampowered.com has been compromised:
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Welcome to Binary Gamer
November 7, 2011
The Next evolution of Steam Gamer has now become Binary Gamer, representing PC gaming as its own all encompassing platform. We will still carry news, reviews, rumours and all the rest but now no longer stick to being dedicated to just Steam.
Binary Gamer now carries an original online game database of PC gaming goodness where [...]
Gabe Newell on Closed Platforms
October 12, 2011
It appears Gabe Newell has foreseen an Apple iHome based future and dislikes the direction console gaming is going. In a recent game panel at some WTIA TechNW conference, Gabe looks at the current gaming trends and offers his own insight into the direction gaming as a medium is going. Seattle Times
On the platform side, [...]
New Valve Intro Video
September 20, 2011
Unless you have been using -novid command option in your Valve games, you have probably seen the Valve Man II on more than one occasion. Normally we are presented with a fading-in sepia tone picture of a man’s bald head with a red valve sticking out of it accompanied by that sinister chime
Half Life 2: Episode 3 code found in DOTA 2 Leak?
September 20, 2011
LambdaGeneration earlier broke the news that the Dota 2 Client had been Leaked with references to actual HL2: Episode 3 Code which has recently been verified by Steam user barneyinblue:
If these environmental type weapons are indeed now part of the Half Life universe, the future looks very interesting for one Gordon Freeman.
For more on the [...]
Alternatives to Steam
September 15, 2011
The popularity Of Steam in the last few years has seen it become the premier PC gaming platform for good reason, it simplifies and centralises the PC gaming experience, taking the best parts of console gaming and maintaining the openness of PC hardware. Steamworks, not to be confused with the Steam client, is Valves platform [...]
Steam Gamer Relaunching Soon
April 22, 2011
Prepare to welcome back Steam Gamer, the only downunder gaming website dedicated to the Steam platform sometime in May make that July! When I stop being slack.
Up and Coming Features
Brink Servers Scratch that, no one appears to be playing in Australia.
Black Mesa Deathmatch Servers (when Available)
The Steam Gamer (Empty) Server. Stay tuned for this! (proving [...]






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