Long gone are the days of people playing Natural Selection, a mod for the original Half Life. When the word came that Natural Selection 2 was being developed NS fans rejoiced. Following in Valve's fashion NS fans are still waiting for the official release of Natural Selection 2. Unknown Worlds, Natural Selection's developers, have released a major update to their beta along with a beautifully done trailer.

A couple days ago Valve launched a closed beta of Steam for phones on the Android Marketplace. Finally after a little waiting Valve has changed the status of their app from closed beta to open beta. Users are now able to log into their Steam app with their Steam account to view their friends list, chat, look at steams catalog, buy games, view profiles, groups and more. Basically this app will allow users to do everything but play the actual video games. The chat function is smooth and beautifully done. Within the settings tab you find some very helpful settings as well. You can change it so the app does not run in the background, change notification sounds, and more.

This app proves helpful for those that want to talk to friends while on the road or really want to catch that great Steam deal going on. Only one item remains for valve now. When will they start selling mobile games that you can install and play on your phone? It only seems like the next step since thousands already downloaded steam to their smartphones.

Razer is no stranger to the gaming community however they have been moving into uncharted water for them. Razer is commonly known for their high caliber gaming mice, keyboards, controllers, and headsets. The last couple of years they took steps towards supporting mobile gaming. I am not talking about angry birds cell phone gaming but actual mobile pc gaming. At Ces 2011 Razer introduced two concepts: The Razer Blade gaming laptop and the Razer Switchblade. This year at Ces 2012 Razer announced the Fiona Pc Tablet Project.

After the extreme success of Portal and its sequel, Portal 2, Game developer Kim Swift has turned her attention to another puzzle game set to release early 2012, Quantum Conundrum. The only conundrum that comes to mind when thinking of this game is: how do you make another puzzle game that not only is completely different than portal but also has a totally different feel to it?

With it being the first day of the year of the Dragon Mike O'Brien, ArenaNet Founder and President, released some great news about Guild Wars 2. Guild Wars 2 will release later this year, probably around September-November we will just have to wait and see. Not only has a year been set for Guild Wars 2 but more information regarding their betas was posted. ArenaNet has recently finished their first beta testing and is moving on to a larger scale testing. In the months of March and April ArenaNet will be "aggressively" upping the size of their beta testing groups to allow more people to give Guild Wars 2 a spin.

Update: More information/a clarification has been given out about the Guild Wars 2 Open Beta. The Open Betas will be more like Beta Weekend Events where specific events and tasks will be given to players to play through. If you played the original Guild Wars you might recall the same method used for testing the campaign packs. The Weekend Beta Events will usually start on a Friday and come to a close Sunday.