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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Left 4 Dead is shaping up to be a pretty interesting title, promising to revamp the old zombie shooter genre, with more agile enemies and up to four player co-op. Valve, the company responsible for hits such as Half Life, Team Fortress or Portal, is really backing up its latest creation and has released a demo availa... |
12 November 2008
03:46 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is Valve's big bet this holiday season. The company had a major success last year when it released The Orange Box, one of the most successful products, which featured Half Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2, so hopes are high as the horror survival zombie shooter is getting ready to hit ... |
11 November 2008
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Valve is one of the most successful developers and publishers of games out there, with the likes of Half Life, Team Fortress, or Portal under its belt. However, a lot of the earnings of the company are due to its extremely popular digital content distribution service, Steam, which has over 15 million accounts worldwi... |
4 November 2008
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Valve is slowly ramping up the media blitz as the release date for Left 4 Dead, their zombie shooting action title, is approaching. The game should be out on November 18, after several delays earlier in the year, and the company is saying that it plans to release a demo so that potential gamers can see what the exper... |
29 October 2008
22:31 GMT |
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What is it with zombies and videogames? Valve is getting ready to launch Left 4 Dead, a game which is supposed to convey the experience through which a zombie apocalypse survivor will go through while battling his way to safety. Blizzard has recently introduced zombies in World of Warcraft, as a pre-launch event whi... |
28 October 2008
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Left 4 Dead is shaping up to be a very interesting title, promising to take the horror survival zombie shooter genre to new heights and even enabling the gamer to play as a zombie in the Infected multiplayer mode. The game, set to hit Steam, the online content distribution service, and the store shelves on November 1... |
21 October 2008
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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
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Episodic content is portrayed in the game industry as something pretty risky. It works on casual games, like Sam & Max or StrongBad, which can offer small and funny experiences that entertain the player until the next episode comes out, several months later. But in the major gaming industry, it’s something that... |
8 October 2008
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Valve is a developer that hasn't gotten along so well with the PlayStation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. It has always focused on the PC and eventually on the Xbox 360. All of its games have been developed for these platforms, and it definitely seemed like it was going to stay that way. But help for the fans of Sony&r... |
7 October 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is going to be a pretty interesting title, the zombie shooter promising quite a lot of things. The innovations it brings have been enough to convince most of us that it will be a must buy title. But not everyone, so Chet Faliszek from Valve decided to give us a few details on the future demo of the ... |
1 October 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is a very important game for Valve, the developer behind great titles like Half Life or Portal, which has really high hopes for this survival horror shooter. It said on many occasions that all its creative resources had gone to this project and that it was the number one priority at the moment. Being slat... |
26 September 2008
03:49 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead will be a pretty good game, promising a zombie shooter with some very interesting twists, and although the single player aspects will be the classical "You're surrounded by zombies, try to escape," the multiplayer will allow the gamer to control the zombies and try to stop the survivors. Valve, its d... |
24 September 2008
04:17 GMT |
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Yesterday, a rumor appeared on the net according to which Google, the company which owns the most popular search engine and a whole suite of other applications developed for daily Internet use, is interested in getting into the gaming market, with an emphasis on the digital distribution one. Since Valve's ... |
18 September 2008
20:51 GMT |
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I got a little riddle for you all: what's the only Zombie Apocalypse that people (well, gamers) are actually eagerly awaiting to happen? You get ten shogun shells to store in your survival kit if you answered Left 4 Dead.The rather sad news is that, probably because of an outbreak of zombie infestation which wip... |
26 August 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Electronic Arts continues to press its now laughable attempt to take over Take Two but a much bigger prize might be looming just over the horizon for the publisher. Valve, which has been quietly establishing a good developer - publisher relationship with Electronic Arts, might be interested in being acquired by the c... |
6 August 2008
19:16 GMT |
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There's a lot of drama surrounding the systems on which Valve's zombie killing shooter Left 4 Dead will eventually be launched. Originally, the company said that only the PC and Xbox 360 owners would be able to survive the zombie apocalypse, while subsequent rumors pointed to the PlayStation 3 as another ta... |
5 August 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead is being released in November even though it was originally scheduled, albeit unofficially, for a summer release date. It ain't good news, as the zombie survival epic from Valve is at the top of my list of things to play on the PC that involve shooting and a bit of scary things (it really seems that ... |
2 June 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Valve has announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the company responsible for the development of the very promising shooter game, Left 4 Dead. Both companies have worked together well until now, so Valve kind of decided to say something like: "Hey guys, we like you. We bought you!" Still, not a big surprise... |
11 January 2008
04:03 GMT |
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