"You play Derek Badger, unflappable Yorkshireman, who stumbles upon a strange underground kingdom and gets caught up in a conflict between two mysterious magical races. I’m making it in Game Maker because current generation technology frightens me."

TruePCGaming - N/A

The most nauseating thing about this game isn’t the insipid attempt at black humor, the repetitive and laborious mission objectives, or the juvenile angst that frames the story. It’s the unfinished state of the final build. You hear birds chirping and wind blowing indoors. Unseen arcade machines beep and boop in barnyard haystacks. The cover system plants Dude in the path of bullets. Cutscenes don’t correspond with your actions in-game. Chunks of building architecture clip into thin air. A weird “Node graph out of date” message appears every time after loading. Some objectives didn’t complete until I re-started the mission. At one point mid-game, the game was crashing to desktop on a minute-by-minute basis until I painfully completed the level by attrition.

GameSpy - 1/5

The festering, maggot-filled cherry atop Postal III's frustration sundae, however, is its writhing mass of technical issues. I eventually gave up trying to count the number of times the game crashed on me (after I smashed my abacus in a fit of rage). Frequent loading screens that regularly hit the 30-second mark only made each restart all the more painful. And then there were the downright strange glitches, like the one that reversed my controls (backward = forward, etc) and turned my character into a glue-coated homing missile for the nearest corner -- where he'd stay until I indiscriminately fired my guns to jiggle him loose. This was not an uncommon occurrence.

IGN - 5.5/10

My hat goes off to Running With Scissors to be ballsy enough to make yet another game that's completely unapologetic in its treatment of risque and taboo subject matter. It's hard to imagine anyone not being offended by Postal III. That's a big selling point for some folks, but the uninspired gameplay and serious technical glitches all but kill this dark, occasionally humorous, and extreme exercise in freedom of expression.

During 2011 the platform grew to offer over 1,800 games to over 40 million accounts. Year-over-year unit sales increased by more than 100% for the seventh straight year, and during the 2011 Holiday Sale Steam's simultaneous user number eclipsed the 5 million player mark.

Meanwhile Steam doubled the amount of content delivered in 2011 vs. 2010, serving over 780 Petabytes of data to gamers around the world. To meet the increasing demand for games and services on the platform, the Steam infrastructure more than doubled its service capacity and a new content delivery architecture was deployed to improve user download rates.

Over 14.5 mil copies of Steamworks games were registered during the year, a 67% increase over 2010. Steamworks titles shipped during 2011 include The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution , and more. Since the suite of services was released three years ago, Steamworks has shipped in over 400 games.

"Steam and Steamworks continues to evolve to keep up with customer and developer demands for new services and content," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Support for in-game item trading prompted the exchange of over 19 million items. Support for Free to Play (FTP) games, launched in June, has spurred the launch of 18 FTP titles on Steam, with more coming in 2012. Looking forward, we are preparing for the launch of the Big Picture UI mode, which will allow gamers to experience Steam on large displays and in more rooms of the house."

I think our resident gun-wielding psycho guns enthusiast G'Moist may have just wet himself.

Major Highlights

• An early version of the Arx Novena Capture the Flag map has been released. This map is in an early state and is not at its final intended art or design quality.
• Added a new “Target Practice” mode under the Training menu. This is a variant of the Crossfire map that contains a variety of bots in it. These can be used to practice shooting.
• Improved vehicle handling in high-latency situations. This is most noticeable on the Shrike.
• Reduced stuttering when skiing/jetting.
• By default, damage numbers appear above a players hit when you damage them. This can be turned off through the Settings menu.
• The game warm-up period has been extended, in order to allow more users to load into the game prior to match start.
• Adjusted flag bounce physics to help prevent punting a flag too far from a large impulse.

Balance Items

• Lowered the damage on the Sentinel's BXT1 Rifle when the rifle is not fully charged (damage is the same as previous at full charge).
• Slightly reduced damage on the Ranger’s Thumper D.
• Increased damage on the Technician’s TCN4 SMG.
• Increased fire rate modestly on the Infiltrator’s Rhino SMG.
• Fixed a previous configuration error that was causing the credits earned from the Flag Killer and Flag Return accolades to be more than their intended value.

Additional Items

• Some general improvements for performance and stability. Further improvements are planned for future patches.
• Fixed issue where a passenger entering a vehicle was not properly getting an indicator that a missile was incoming.
• Fixed issue where vehicle drivers and passengers weren’t having the proper animations applied.
• Fixed issue with upside-down Beowulf’s being unable to be flipped back over.
• Fixed issue with force ejection of Beowulf driver and passenger where they were falling out of the level and dying.
• Added bullet impact and flyby sounds for bullet-based projectiles (chaingun, SMGs, ARs, etc).
• Added footstep particle systems under players when walking around. This is not visible on yourself when in first-person view.
• Fixed gunner caret not showing up when mousing over the Beowulf.
• Players are no longer auto-balanced when driving a vehicle.
• Fixed switching between first-person and third-person causing loss of audio on some weapons.
• Fixed vehicle ammo indicator not showing at times.
• Fixed Infiltrator’s SN7 not being able to fire at the maximum rate possible.
• Fixed driver and passenger health bars not properly showing on vehicles.
• Fixed issue with Doombringer’s Saber Launcher lock-on sound staying on when you have a lock then enter a vehicle.
• Fixed response issues with Beowulf turret and gunner positions.
• Fixed an issue in which username and password were not being saved properly for some users.
• Removed confusing message about entering and exiting a vehicle on vehicle purchase.
• All device particle systems now have proper levels of detail. This should help low end systems in high action environments.

Spectator Changes

• Increased performance on spectator HUD.

Known Issues

• The above-head damage indicators may report incorrect damage on shotgun weapons in some conditions. The actual damage amounts applied are correct.

Limited Edition includes:

• Custom artwork illustrated by Marc Silvestri
• Free digital download of The Darkness Origins Volume 1 and 2 comics

Exclusive In-Game Items:

• Alternate darkling outfit - "Crazy Abdul"
• Two character ability upgrades:
• Gourmet Hearts: provides bonus for eating hearts
• Relic Hunter: locates collectible items in the world

Players will be taken down the brutal and personal path of Jackie Estacado, head of a New York crime family and wielder of an ancient and ruthless force of chaos and destruction known as The Darkness. A sudden, unprovoked attack by a mysterious organization known as the Brotherhood heralds the start of a full-scale war and opens the door for The Darkness to reemerge, setting Jackie on a journey to hell and worse.