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Amanita Design, creators of the great adventure game Machinarium, have announced that their point and click adventure Botanicula should now be available on Steam for $8.99 as you read this. The game has been garnering both a dedicated fan base and decent reviews due to it’s excellent sound track, enjoyable artwork and the text free design of the adventure itself. Botanicula clocks in at about 50 Steam achievements if you are an achievement nut. If you couldn’t care less about showing off, the game is also available on the Mac App Store and Humble Store.
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After waiting for so long for a game, you’d expect that when you play it, it would work. Not so, apparently, for CD Projekt Red’s port of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition for the Mac. This game that finally popped up on Steam just in the past week is reporting to suffer from bugs linked to the port of the game using Wine, as reported by the GameAgent blog today.
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Late at night, while you are sleeping the game elves are hard at work. Tweaking… working… coding… Occasionally they forget what they are supposed to be doing and cobble together a shoe. Sometimes they bake some cookies. But last night was special. Last night the gaming elves slunk their way into CD Projekt Red’s offices and did something magical: They finished the Mac version of The Witcher and uploaded it to Steam.
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We just might see more games for the Mac show up sometime soon, courtesy of the Unreal Engine 3. Reverb Publishing has announced that they have entered a site-wide licensing agreement to use Epic’s game engine, allowing all developers signing with Reverb to use UE3 with Reverb’s digital publishing program for PSN, XBLA, PC and Mac downloadable titles, iOS and Android platforms.
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The Indie funded and developed title Dear Esther, based on a 2008 mod of Half-life 2, was released yesterday. This minimalist first-person explorer managed to make back its costs in just over the first five hours of sales, which means everything after this is profit. It’s been released for PC, but are we going to see a Mac version?
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What do you do when you are pissed off at a game company and want to let them know how you feel? Get together in massive groups and play their games. Yeah, that’ll teach ‘em!
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We’re getting close to that all important date: gift giving after maxing out our credit cards. How spiritual! Anyway, here are the latest listing of holiday sales. Remember, if you want to keep track of some great Mac and iOS game sales throughout the holiday, just look for the #holidaysale tag!
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Cipher Prime, developers of the celebrated game Pulse for iPad, have announced the release of their music-based puzzler Fractal onto the Mac App Store and Steam. Fractal for Mac is expected to be available on the Mac App Store today. The Steam release for PC and Mac is planned for the coming weeks.
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On November 7, several sites, including Eurogamer, started reporting that the Steam forums were down and that certain information led to a possible conclusion that the Steam forums had been hacked. Valve made no statement at the time, and traveling to the forums site showed one the message, “The Steam Forums are temporarily offline for maintenance. Your patience is appreciated.” That message has remained up for the past four days with no official message as to why.

Until now.
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Valve Software has announced development of the second DLC for Portal 2. The in-game editor for Portal 2 is targeted for release early next year.

This easy-to-use in-game map editor will let users design, build, and share their own single-player and co-op test chambers with the community, who will be able to view, play and vote on them with a simple click. When released, the in-game editor will join the first content update Peer Review, which was released just two weeks ago.
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