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Gabe Newell, the boss of Valve Software, the studio behind massively successful games like Team Fortress 2, Portal or Left 4 Dead, still hasn't grown sick and tired of the constant questions concerning Half Life 2: Episode 3, the next installment in its hugely successful first-person shooter series.
Valve has... |
26 August 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Portal 2 has just received its full list of achievements, and speculation is already brewing as one of them seemingly hints at Half Life 2 Episode 3.
Portal 2 will be arriving in April, so the list of 50 achievements that has appeared is not that surprising.
In it, you'll find a lot of amusing challenges a... |
2 March 2011
03:25 GMT |
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Andrei Dumitrescu: It would be nice for publishers to spread their releases around a bit more over the months of the year, giving sleepy gamers something new and exciting to play with in January and sparing them the torrent of new high profile releases that are coming in March and during the fall of the year.
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14 January 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Valve, one of the biggest independent game developers out there, has just defended, through its marketing director, Doug Lombardi, the surprising and frankly 'schizophrenic' release schedule that it currently employs.
Valve is one of the most popular game developers out there, largely because it releases... |
5 January 2011
18:01 GMT |
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Valve announced recently that its flagship video game, Half Life 2, was headed to the Mac. Currently available for download via Steam, the game is one of the most highly acclaimed of its kind, and is now playable on Macs thanks to Valve porting the Steam gaming platform to Mac OS X. “By taking the suspense, ch... |
28 May 2010
05:15 GMT |
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One of the best reviewed first-person shooters ever to be released, Half Life 2, has been confirmed for Mac OS X via a teaser trailer issued by Valve yesterday. The sequel to the highly acclaimed Half Life game is being made available today, through Steam, Valve’s popular gaming platform, which saw its Mac debu... |
26 May 2010
06:50 GMT |
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Acknowledging that Half-Life games tend to take a bit too long to come out, Valve came up with the neat idea of episodic content for the game, releasing HL2: Episode 1 two years after the original HL2 in 2006, and in 2007, HL2: Episode 2. The idea behind this concept was to deliver the title into smaller bits, like... |
20 January 2010
05:41 GMT |
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When they first hit our computers, Half Life 2 and the Source engine had us driving nails and bolts in our jaws to keep them in place. The game provided a truly amazing experience, and no matter how impressive the Source engine was at the time is was first seen by the public, its true power was slowly revealed as tim... |
6 January 2010
03:11 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead proved to be one of the most successful and most popular Half Life 2 mods, so it didn't take long before Valve got Left 4 Dead 2 all wrapped up and ready for shipping. In fact, Valve did it so quickly that a lot of die-hard fans of the zombie shooter thought this would make the game rushed and severe... |
4 January 2010
06:56 GMT |
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Games based solely on atmosphere are a rather rare thing theses days, where everything needs to rely on big explosions, flashy graphics and if they do have a story, they're something very thin and transparent, a see-through garment on a soulless lingerie model. The reason is a simple one, and that is that such t... |
16 December 2009
12:01 GMT |
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Fable II gets a relaunch on the Xbox live in the form of episodic content. “Fable II: Game Episodes” had its first episode come out today and will be available for free. The episodic release will feature the full game's Achievements system and will be fully compatible with the “Knothole Island&... |
30 September 2009
06:11 GMT |
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Half Life 2 is one of the most compelling games ever made; it broke the molds of conventional shooters and gave the player a unique environment in which to act through a variety of ways. When Valve, the developer and publisher of the game, announced that it would release episodic content for the title, a lot of peop... |
21 October 2008
02:44 GMT |
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Back in videogaming pre-history, when Valve announced that Half Life would become an episodic game, the plan was to release Episode 3 of Half Life 2 in time for Christmas 2007. It's now close to Christmas 2008 and there's no sign of the game coming any time soon. After all, about a year ago, Valve announce... |
16 October 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Taking place in and around the fictional City 17 in 2020, Half-Life 2 follows the scientist Gordon Freeman. Dr. Freeman is thrust into a strange environment in which the aftermath of the Black Mesa Incident has come to bear fully upon human society. Freeman is forced to fight against increasingly unfavorable odds in ... |
21 March 2008
09:41 GMT |
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Valve is a shrewd, shrewd company. First they create one of the defining games of the '90s with Half Life. Then, they create a digital distribution channel that threatens traditional disk-in-a-case games with extinction, codenamed Steam. And then, they release The Orange Box, a compendium of titles packaged toge... |
14 March 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Since Microsoft launched their Xbox Live service, add-ons/official mods became another way of making gamers reach deeper into their pockets. Thus, the move caught other companies' attention and they did the same with their products. Before we knew it, any content whatsoever, added after a title's release, h... |
28 May 2007
06:59 GMT |
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Half-Life 2: The Black Box package, offering Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, has just been officially cancelled by Valve. The only collection available now for the FPS's faithful fans will be the Orange Box of Episode 2 releasing in autumn. The Orange Box will be setting gamers back $10 more... |
20 May 2007
04:51 GMT |
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Remember the beautiful Nariko screenshot earlier this month? Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword, a game in development for Sony's PS3, has Nariko as the leading character in the game, so naturally they had to emphasize on her looks. Thing is, Ninja Theory kind of exaggerated with their emphasis on the leading la... |
16 March 2007
11:55 GMT |
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Everybody knows that Half Life 2 episode 1 had 4 hours of gameplay tops, yet Valve's Doug Lombardi says that ep. 1 had to offer around 6 hours of gameplay. Now, HL ep. 2 is getting closer and closer to the finish and the developers are trimming down the time for its release. But they assure fans that ep. 2 is go... |
10 March 2007
10:10 GMT |
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