Valve’s Source game engine may be nearly four years old, but the price is right — anybody who buys a single Source-powered game can download the Source SDK for free, via Steam. (Didn’t know you had it? Check your “Tools” tab in Steam.) Valve has also used their online delivery system to keep their game [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Last month, we spoke to a pair of gentlemen putting in tremendous amounts of work to make The Witcher: Enhanced Edition into a perfect game — work which they would then give away for free in the form of a tremendous patch. Though primarily excited by the new bar the team was setting for post-release [...]
Continue reading...Monday, September 15, 2008
EA may have their own digital distribution mechanism, but that won’t stop Steam users from spectacularly splattering alien guts all over North Korea’s top-secret island military installations. Through a partnership between Crytek and Valve, Crysis and its expansion pack-cum-sequel Crysis Warhead are now available for preorder on Steam at $40 and $30 respectively. The full [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 25, 2008
Valve, delaying a game? Say it ain’t so. Unfortunately, it is so, as Valve has announced today that Left 4 Dead, their co-op zombie-blasting survival shooter, will be releasing a few weeks later than anticipated. The new release date is set for November 20th, 2008, landing on the 10th anniversary of Half-Life, the game that [...]
Continue reading...Friday, August 22, 2008
It’s not that we don’t appreciate your readership, but what the hell are you doing here?! Don’t you know that you could be playing Team Fortress 2, for free, right now? Valve is allowing everyone to download and play TF2 for the entire weekend, to let folks drop in and sample the all-new Heavy Update. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Update: Konami PR has informed us that the PC version will be distributed exclusively through Steam. “No retail boxed version will be produced,” a representative informed us. Update: Silent Hill: Homecoming producer Tomm Hulett has confirmed that the U.S. release is still on for September. Original Story: While the game’s subtitle won’t be nearly as apt in [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Honestly, when Valve announced yesterday that the all-new gameplay mode for Team Fortress 2 was nothing more than a team deathmatch mode, I was a little disappointed. Especially given that the new mode is one-death-and-you’re-out, which is really kind of a detriment to those of us who aren’t that great at staying alive for more [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 18, 2008
On Friday, Valve updated the post on their Heavy Update page which listed the new achievements for everyone’s favorite minigun-wielding Team Fortress 2 class. This new update replaced all of the “Coming Soon” placeholders with actual descriptions of what the achievements would entail, thus drawing our speculation contest to a close. All told, roughly 50 [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
UPDATE 8/15: Valve has published the full list of the Heavy’s Achievements, and our contest is now closed! Look for our analysis and winner announcement soon! Valve put up a list, this morning, of the 35 new achievements that will become available in next week’s Heavy Update. The official website lists only the names of the [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Valve’s Heavy Update site has revealed the first new unlockable weapon for Team Fortress 2’s big, cuddly Heavy Weapons Guy: The “Killing Gloves of Boxing,” a new melee weapon which will please pugilism patrons everywhere. That’d be pretty awesome by itself, but if you look carefully at the accompanying image pack that’s included with the new site, [...]
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Monday, September 29, 2008
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