Dota 2 makes waves with $10 million International prize pool

Thanks to Valve’s crowdfunding initiatives, the Dota 2 world championship, otherwise known as The International, now has a prize pool totaling more than $10 million. Which is like … *counts out fingers* … a lot. It’s enough to eclipse last year’s $2.9 million prize pool several times over, and the...

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Pier Solar HD stalled by certification, additions detailed

Pier Solar HD developer WaterMelon Co. is releasing its touched-up Mega Drive and Sega Genesis RPG on more than 10 platforms, and understandably, they’ve hit a bit of a snare this week in the certification process: While the build that WaterMelon submitted to Valve was cleared for release on Steam,...

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Batman: Arkham Origins ‘Complete Edition’ listed by Amazon Germany

You don’t have to be the “World’s Greatest Detective” to follow this trail: Amazon Germany has posted a listing for Batman: Arkham Origins “Complete Edition,” a package which will supposedly combine Arkham Origins and all of its DLC into one box. The move, if accurate, isn’t exactly unexpected; both Arkham...

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PSA: Rebellion revoking stolen Sniper Elite 3 keys

UK development studio Rebellion claims that a batch of Steam keys for em>Sniper Elite 3 has been stolen, and access to the game from accounts which purchased the ill-gotten goods has been revoked. “One of our PC retail distributors informed us that some of their allotted Steam keys were stolen,”...

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