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Garry's Mod Goes Commercial

Garry's Mod Goes Commercial

Thu, 30 November 2006
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Pony up some dough to play

Even game characters like to bust a move
It was inevitable. Two of Valve's biggest sellers started out their lives as mods (Counter-Strike and Day of Defeat) before they became a retail product, and now it seems that the ever popular Garry's Mod will be receiving the Steam treatment.

Fans of the mod will have to shell out around $US10 for the privilege of getting to play with the latest version of the physics sandbox. Gamers that don't have any Source-based products will have to pay $24.95 US to get Garry's Mod bundled with Counter-Strike: Source.

Independent Software developer Garry Newman and Valve today announce an electronic distribution agreement for Garry's MOD, the popular software utility downloaded by hundreds of thousands to create mini-games, many of the most popular movie shorts on web sites such as YouTube.com, and more.

"The new version has been created from scratch so almost everything has been revised and re-invented," said Garry Newman, creator of Garry's MOD. "It has a bunch of new tools to play with (winches, hydraulics and hoverballs), totally new spawn menu and a few new Post Processing effects to play with. The great thing about Steam is that I can update really regularly, really easily - which is something I plan on doing - so expect more tools/gamemodes/stuff to come."

- Official Press Release

Garry's Mod is now available to download from Valve's Steam Steam service. For the credit card-phobes amongst us, Valve has recently added Paypal as a payment option for buying products off Steam, so you've got no excuse now!

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