Valve Updates its online gaming platform

Valve has done major updates to Steam- the world's largest online gaming platform. The creator of some of the best-selling games including the likes of Counter Strike and Team Fortress has announced a major update coming to the Steam Community.

The update mainly focuses on the user-created screenshots, videos and workshop items for games across steam while making it easier for the gamers to discuss their games. Every games will now include a new game hub. The hubs will highlight some of the most popular user-generated content as rated by the community and combine it with related news, discussions, and comments for the game all in one central location.


"The New Steam Community is all about showing off the best content that gamers have created," says Valve in their blogpost. "With over 89 million screenshots, videos, Steam Workshop maps, levels, mods, and items, plus news articles and product updates, the community has created an unbelievable wealth of content around their favorite games."

Steam is a leading platform for the delivery and management of PC and Mac games and digital entertainment, with over 40 million accounts around the world and over 2000 titles offered.

The update is expected to be rolled out  in between 13th and 16th August.

Anti-Piracy campaign wins another fortress

Seems like anti-Piracy campaign is hitting and hitting hard against pirate websites. Earlier Demnoid was shut down by the authorities in Ukraine after suffering a massive DDos (Distributed Denial of Service attack and  today Google has written in a blog post that they are going to lower the rankings of the websites in their search results which are known to have violated copyright laws.

Google writes in its blogpost," Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our rankings: the number of valid copyright removal notices we receive for any given site. Sites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in our results. This ranking change should help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily"

Google Beefs up its search engine

Search giant Google has added some new features to its Google search. The search results, as it says, will now be more accurate and better linked to the search term entered. These additions further improve the standard of the world's most widely  used search engine.

NASA Attempts for Mars Agian in Search Of Life.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory is expected to land on the red planet on 6th August at 5:31am GMT. The $2.4 billion dollar machine is on its Mars mission for finding the remnants of life on Mars.

Scientists have found signs of water at Earth's closest neighbor, hinting some form of life might have existed there in the past, though it is now a dry planet with dust storms and extreme winters.

Google shuts down its services again, says its for the better

Search giant Google is again set to shut down some of its services which it says weren't as useful as anticipated. Google announced shutting down of some of its services last month also.

Among the services set to be discontinued are Google Apps for Teams introduced in 2008. It was meant to collaborate applications from Google like Google Docs, Google Calendar and other non-email apps. The accounts of Google Apps for teams will be turned into personal Google Accounts from 4th September, 2012.

RIM launches Another Playbook Tablet

In a move to maintain its competitiveness Research In Motion(RIM) has launched another playbook tablet in its home country in Canada. The new tablet has a built in support for the faster 4G LTE Networks which its predecessors lacked.