Rage, a post-apocalyptic shooter with dune buggies, will be releasing very soon (October the 4th to be exact), Hooray! However there’s might be a sour note for Xbox 360 players; in order to have the best performance possible the game can be download directly to your consoles (both PS3 & 360). Not unusual for higher end games but for the 360 will need a whopping 22GB worth of space in order to do it. I don’t know about the rest of you but I still use my 12 GB hard drive from my original system – and I kind of need the data on it. Please note: installing the game on your systems isn’t a requirement; it only helps performance, which sucks because the 360 will need three discs to play the game correctly AND it still needs a huge performance download… Lame. Well if you excuse me I’m going to change my pre-order to the PS3 because it can handle the install and only comes with one Blu ray disc.
On less storage space news Battlefield 3, the game that makes actual modern combat as boring as reading about it in the library, will be on all major non Wii consoles and PC – accept for Steam. That’s right, quite possibly the world’s biggest online digital distribution service for gaming won’t be going to war with Battlefield, but why? Well according to EA, they say that valve puts restrictions on how content goes available for the game they sell. So if EA want to provide DLC, updates, patches and the like they have to deal with steam directly. So despite the fact they run the newly christened ‘Origin’, I steam-like service, they’re only excluding Battlefield 3 from Steam, they’re biggest competitor, because they don’t want to follow the guidelines many other game companies don’t seem to have a problem with… Sorry TF2 players no Battlefield helmets in your future.
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Video Game Armada 
Can’t even download Rage from steam 😦 http://www.gamesguy.co.uk/archives/rage-steam
Are you sure? Doesn’t seem like there’s any problems on Steam’s end.