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For most of the older gamers, the glory days are, like for many other things, in the past. The best titles are always the ones we used to play, and rarely the ones we are playing. But shiny graphics, shaders and foto-realistic textures are something we all enjoy, even if they can't always beat the 8-bit nostalgi... |
17 November 2009
05:27 GMT |
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Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has another bone to pick with Valve, and, this time, it's about Left 4 Dead. He didn't point any eye-gouging fingers towards Chet Faliszek and his kick below the belt at the PlayStation 3, but he strongly criticized the zombie-shooter's developer for its stance regarding Son... |
9 November 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 had an official boycott, but it looks like Valve managed to fix things after all. When it decided to fly over two of the boycott's leaders to its headquarters and give them a hands-on experience of the game, it hoped to successfully calm the spirits. If anything, it looks like it managed to defuse ... |
6 November 2009
05:51 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of those games that were so good they turned people into psychotic fans. The game in itself is a huge cement truck of “fun” distilled through twisting glass tubes until it could fit a game box. The frantic survival zombie shooter pits four more or less ordinary people against the popula... |
15 October 2009
03:18 GMT |
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All blockbuster games nowadays have gigantic budgets, worthy of a Hollywood counterpart, but most of it is kept as low-profile information. It's not a secret and it's not hidden in any way, it's more that nobody really wants to share just how much money they spent on making the game if it turns out to ... |
6 October 2009
05:35 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead gets brand-new DLC and it's just another map or lesser detail like most DLCs. Valve lives up to its promise to continue to take care of the L4D community and releases Crash Course as a downloadable content. With just over a month away from Left 4 Dead 2's launch, the first game still gets enough... |
30 September 2009
06:51 GMT |
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Valve has officially announced that a new campaign for Left 4 Dead will be released on the PC and the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft on September 29. Players who are interested in more zombie fighting before the release of the sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, will need to pay 540 Microsoft Points, if they play on the X... |
24 September 2009
03:51 GMT |
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A new study offered by OTX through its GamePlan Insights service shows that a lot of those players who have picked up the new Halo 3: ODST are also set to buy Modern Warfare 2 when the title is released on November 10. This is good news for Microsoft and Activision and might prove to be pretty bad news for other publ... |
22 September 2009
18:31 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 has a lot of controversy surrounding it, partly because it will arrive almost a year after the original game, which prompted many players of the first title to boycott it unless Valve released new content for it before L4D 2 would arrive. But another source of controversy has been a Houston Chronicle b... |
6 August 2009
13:11 GMT |
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There has been a huge amount of controversy around Valve's Left 4 Dead franchise ever since the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Seeing as how not even a year has passed since the release of the first title, many players felt betrayed and even started a boycott gro... |
5 August 2009
04:03 GMT |
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Without a doubt, one of the biggest announcements at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and that stirred up the biggest amount of controversy was Valve's Left 4 Dead 2. Made during the Microsoft press conference, the announcement of a sequel to follow up Left 4 Dead in just one year made a lot of people quit... |
8 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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The shooter genre has certainly delivered a lot of highly successful franchises, the likes of Halo, Resistance or Gears of War in recent years. But one of the series that have truly brought the genre into mainstream attention and into the hearts of many gamers all around the world is Counter Strike. Originally devel... |
8 July 2009
03:50 GMT |
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As you already know, Valve is in the middle of quite a lot of controversy these days, as it has unveiled at E3 this year that Left 4 Dead, one of the most popular titles of 2008, would receive a sequel in just twelve months. This led fans to start a boycott group, as they felt betrayed by the company, because the or... |
7 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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One of the biggest releases in 2007 was Valve's The Orange Box pack. It did not only contain the eagerly anticipated Half Life 2: Episode 2, but also Team Fortress 2 and the phenomenal Portal. This, coupled with the fact that both the original Half Life 2 and its first episode were bundled in the pack, meant tha... |
7 July 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead has been one of the most talked about games in recent weeks as, during the E3 conference, Valve unveiled that its sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, would be released only a year after the original title. This sparked a lot of controversy and many gamers formed a boycott group on the company's Steam online servi... |
6 July 2009
16:51 GMT |
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DFC Intelligence, in association with GamerDNA, conducted an extended study aimed at measuring the way Steam and digital distribution in general could impact the sales and the overall activity for videogame releases.The title used was Left 4 Dead, which was released by Valve for both the Xbox 360 and the PC. The stud... |
24 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of the biggest games launched last year and became a fan favorite for its simple gameplay and top notch multiplayer options. The systems used by Valve delivered one of the best zombie killing experiences and made the game sell a lot of copies even though many months passed since its release.In ord... |
24 June 2009
02:21 GMT |
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Valve isn't any ordinary video game developer, as it tends to follow its own strategy when creating new titles and deciding on which platforms it will bring them. With the most recent one, Left 4 Dead, the company didn't bother to bring it on the PlayStation 3, instead focusing on two platforms dominated by... |
16 June 2009
15:01 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its online features. However, when Valve, the creator of the game, announced that Left 4 Dead 2 would be released, just one year after its predecessor, these fans weren't very happy. We reported the fact that they had... |
12 June 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of the most popular titles last year, thanks to its cohesive experience, great single and multiplayer modes and the top-notch compatibility with the platforms for which it was released. As such, it won over a lot of fans and is still a best-seller these days. But as Valve announced last week, a s... |
10 June 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its great gameplay, impressive mechanics and top-notch multiplayer. The fact that it was released by Valve, which is a company that sits very close to the community, made it even more popular. But as E3 ended last week, th... |
9 June 2009
03:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of the biggest new games of last year, introducing a fresh and interesting twist to the whole action survival genre by putting four characters in front of a seemingly never-ending horde of zombies in different cliché locations, like a farm, an abandoned airport or a hospital.Its four main c... |
8 June 2009
03:31 GMT |
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Valve is a company that has gotten us used to seeing a game each year. It really broke the mold with The Orange Box in 2007 when it released three new titles, but in 2008, Left 4 Dead was the main project at the developer and publisher of video games. Now, a lot of people speculated that Half Life 2: Episode 3 would... |
2 June 2009
03:20 GMT |
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PC gaming is a genre that hasn't been really appreciated lately by a lot of analysts who said that it wouldn't stand a chance against the current generation of consoles and that developers would realize the big features that these have against the PC. But week after week though, things are still going well... |
14 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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What once started as an easy way to create enemies for underpowered consoles and other platforms has now become an integral part of our everyday gaming experience. I am of course talking about zombies and how they are now branching their undead presence into almost any type of game and genre of titles. From being ki... |
9 May 2009
07:01 GMT |
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The PC gaming market has been doomed by a lot of analysts because it is filled with piracy, which hurts every company that brings its games to the old platform, still the most popular one in the world. But the weekly PC sales charts just go to prove that things are still going great for a lot of companies that have m... |
6 May 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular shooters released last year, despite being a brand new Intellectual Property. It won over a lot of fans thanks to its solid multiplayer features and the great matchmaking system guaranteed by Valve's Steam service. Even though it experienced a lot of big sales in the holid... |
30 April 2009
16:01 GMT |
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This gaming week has been cut a bit short because on Monday we celebrated the second day of Orthodox Easter. Still, we managed to get in one interesting article related to the right to vote as opposed to the right to play videogames.Tuesday, we saw Obsidian partner up with Bethesda to bring us another Fallout videoga... |
25 April 2009
08:41 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was a great game. It impressed reviewers and fans alike with its top-notch AI, intricate gameplay and ever-changing layout of its four scenarios, courtesy of Valve's innovative AI Director, who changed the location of ammunition spots and the intensity of the zombie attacks. But what it gained in in... |
24 April 2009
03:16 GMT |
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Zombies have been an integral part of the video game industry for quite some time, as a lot of titles have prominently featured them as the main targets of the player, in which he or she needed to shoot all of their ammunition. Left 4 Dead is one of the most recent titles to feature the undead, but it has also broug... |
22 April 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead was one of last year's most popular titles, as it provided a great dose of entertainment to all players while enjoying one of the favorite pastime in a lot of video games, shooting zombies. But not only did it make for a great experience similar to a lot of horror B-movies, but it was also backed up ... |
17 April 2009
03:00 GMT |
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Video games have been around for quite some time, and it hasn't been long since zombies joined in on the fun, as they have been featured in a wide variety of titles over the years. But recently, largely due to Valve's extremely solid and successful Left 4 Dead, the undead have gained a new amount of popular... |
14 April 2009
11:21 GMT |
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PC gaming has been doomed by quite a lot of developers and industry specialists over the recent few years, but despite such gloomy forecasts, it has managed to stay alive and still generates a very nice income for companies that have brought their titles to it.Among them, as showed by the weekly retail sales charts f... |
8 April 2009
03:13 GMT |
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Valve really knows how to craft successful games. After The Orange Box, which bundled together hits like Half Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal, Valve announced that it planned to create a zombie shooter. The game looked so good that pre-orders were 65% bigger than they were for The Orange Box and the title quickly ... |
31 March 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Game development isn't easy, especially when you make a game for the PC platform, which is as varied as possible due to different configurations and runtime environments. That is why a lot of games receive patches from time to time, as testers don't have enough time to find out all the bugs present in one t... |
12 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Zombies have always been an integral part of the gaming industry, despite the fact that they were almost always at the receiving end of a high-power weapon wielded by the main characters of a lot of video games. But Valve's recent Left 4 Dead brought something new, with the ability of actually playing as the zom... |
25 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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Hardware sales were the main driver for the 13% increase the videogame industry saw in the United States for the month of January 2009 over January 2008. The data coming from the NPD Group shows that software sales increase at a slower pace than hardware, indicating a somewhat surprising trend: when there’s lit... |
13 February 2009
14:21 GMT |
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When Valve announced that it planned to release downloadable content for Left 4 Dead, one thing missing from the press release was the price. The new content is set to arrive on both the PC and the Xbox 360 and the track record from Valve shows that while PC gamers get updates and DLC for free, as they have become ac... |
12 February 2009
04:29 GMT |
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Where to start? In the past week, Electronic Arts unleashed a virtual barrage of videogame-related news, mostly regarding upcoming releases, while I signed up for the Dawn of War II beta and posted one article each day about my experience with it.Monday started off with the unveiling of the Achievement list for Stree... |
7 February 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Valve announced its plans to release the first downloadable content piece for Left 4 Dead. Their multiplayer cooperative zombie shooter is set to be updated sometime during spring with a new game mode, which is called Survival, and with two new more complete campaigns that can be played in the Versus Mode. There'... |
6 February 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most popular games released right before the holidays. Despite the fact that it had to battle with all of the sequels to a very popular shooter during that time, it still gained a lot of attention from fans, largely because it offered a solid online experience, courtesy of Valve's Steam... |
15 January 2009
11:41 GMT |
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The shooter genre has seen a massive amount of titles appear this holiday season, most of them sequels to already extremely popular franchises, like Gears of War or Resistance. But among them, a new IP (Intellectual Property) appeared and took online gaming to new standards, in terms of reliability and the quality of... |
14 January 2009
15:01 GMT |
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When Left 4 Dead, the zombie themed shooter from Valve, came out in late 2008, some players were quick to complain about the fact that the four campaigns shipped with the game could be completed in around four or five hours by a player using the Normal difficulty level. Observers quickly pointed out that, given the p... |
5 January 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Edge, the videogame magazine published by the Future media group, has announced the recipients of the 2008 Edge Awards, presented each year to those titles influencing the industry and changing players’ expectations.The big winner of 2008 is the PlayStation 3 exclusive LittleBigPlanet, created by Media Molecule... |
28 December 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Valve is definitely a company that's been on a high ascending trend lately, knowing that its latest title, Left 4 Dead, has been very successful, managing quite a lot of sales. The game ushered in a new level of multiplayer interaction and gave a new meaning to the term co-op, while the innovative Versus mode, i... |
15 December 2008
03:15 GMT |
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Valve has put up a blog entry detailing its plans regarding future developments for Team Fortress 2. There are some changes coming soon, in the following days, and a bigger update planned for early 2009.The upcoming changes are not huge at all. Engineers will not be able to build up both Teleporters and Dispensers to... |
12 December 2008
12:41 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is one of the most exciting games released this holiday season, largely due to the fact that it promises to bring a whole new twist on the zombie survival shooter genre, giving players a wide variety of new features, which weren't implemented in other games. From the four player co-op mode to the fac... |
20 November 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Half Life, the original, is turning 10 years old and Valve is celebrating by offering the game for download through Steam for the incredibly low price of 0.98 dollars. Yes, you heard that right, just 98 cents for one of the best shooters ever to make it computers. The offer is currently live and you need to install ... |
20 November 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Valve is a very popular company with the gamer community, mainly because of the fact that it has always been there for users, which shows through various actions, like giving away free trials, or offering support for the very active modding community.Mods, or modifications, have always played an important part in alm... |
18 November 2008
02:21 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is set to be a very successful title, largely due to the fact that one of the most popular game developers on the market, Valve, is behind it. The company is very popular with the gamer community mainly because it endorses and publishes modifications made to its games by different types of people.The demo... |
17 November 2008
11:01 GMT |
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