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Remember back when Harmonix revealed that they’d be hiring for a first-person shooter back in August of 2012? It’s time! Harmonix’ developers have brought the world the likes of Guitar … Continue reading

Here’s a fun fact: If you use Steam for your games—let’s face it, you do—there’s a chance Valve’s Anti-Cheat System been taking a look at all the websites you visit and sending a list back to home base. Why? No one knows for sure.

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Tagging is a useful features for blogs, music, and even games as it helps identify and refine the search process. For example tagging a game with “RPG” would allow those searching for an RPG game to come across said title, but unfortunately it seems that some have gotten a bit carried away when it comes to tagging games on Valve’s Steam platform, abusing the Steam Tags feature shortly after it was launched. For example titles such as Gone Home was tagged with a “not a game” tag; Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP with a “hipster garbage” tag; and Indie Game: The Movie with “Phil Fish sucks”.

This has led to Valve making an announcement that they will be doing something about it in an update that will hopefully lead to such tags disappearing for good, or at least reduced immensely. The update basically allows users to flag tags, thanks to a flag icon placed next to a tag, that will inform Valve if the tag is offensive/abusive, not appropriate, not helping, or contains a spoiler. From there Valve will review the flag and determine if the tag should be removed. This is very different from Valve’s Steam review system in which gamers are only allowed to review games that they have actually played, versus tagging where anyone can tag a game even if they have not played it.

Valve Lets Gamers Flag Offensive/Abusive Steam Tags original content from Ubergizmo.

Thanks to the creativity of developers out there, there are all sorts of games that one might be able to find and play, although recently we have to say that Goat Simulator has to be one of the more bizarre titles that we have come across lately. The game was originally designed to be a game jam where the developers were just messing around with programming, but apparently once the internet had caught wind of the footage, chaos ensued as everyone started asking the developers, Coffee Stain Studios, to make it a reality and put it up for download/sale.

At that time the developers made no promises, but the good news is that if you wanted something a little unusual, Coffee Stain Studios has come through and has since announced that Goat Simulator will indeed be made into a real game where it is expected to go up for sale on Steam and will cost $9.99. For those interested, you can go ahead and place your pre-orders and you guys will be eligible to access the game a good 3 days before everyone else does upon its release. In the meantime if you want to see if the game is worth your $9.99, be sure to check out the video above for the trailer.

Goat Simulator Is An Actual Game original content from Ubergizmo.

Supposing you missed the action/adventure title fused with heavy metal and the most metal of voices – Jack Black – the folks at Humble Bundle and Double Fine are bringing … Continue reading