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Valve has revealed that with the upcoming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive it plans to unify the two gaming communities that now player Source and version 1.6 of the game and launch a new phenomenon in the electronic sports space.Chet Faliszek, who is one of the leading executives at Valve, has told Develop magazine ... |
29 September 2011
04:11 GMT |
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Coming to make a contribution to the PC case market, NZXT has made an official announcement in which it describes the newest addition to its Classic Series.
The desktop enclosure market is one of the most extensive and varied of the IT industry's many sub-segments.
This is because preference for aesthetic... |
24 September 2011
05:21 GMT |
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In March, Softpedia informed its readers that, after weeks of speculation, Valve had officially announced plans to bring its Steam gaming service (and the Source gaming engine), to the Mac. The first games confirmed as coming to OS X were Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life serie... |
27 April 2010
09:45 GMT |
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While Valve has been cuddling some of its games, like Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, its older titles haven't received any serious attention in a long time. The last big update Counter Strike: Source received was in 2007, with the introduction of the Pure Servers and the "sv_pure," which was a very unwelcome... |
26 January 2010
08:30 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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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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The Source engine proved to be an incredibly versatile and flexible tool. The first time it came to light was in 2004, in Counter-Strike: Source and, shortly after, there was Half-Life 2. Now, five years later, the engine is still being put to good use and delivering great games. The recently launched Left 4 Dead 2 h... |
8 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Valve has managed to release some really good and acclaimed games, but it's not known for a lot of releases. The famous Half-Life was released in 1998, but its sequel had to wait six years to be launched. However, this isn't the case at all with the Left 4 Dead series, as the game scored two iterations in t... |
2 December 2009
06:12 GMT |
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After developing the Half Life mode Counter Strike, Minh Le, or better known as Gooseman, joined Valve as part of the programming team responsible for Counter Strike 2. But the two didn't click at all and the pressure applied by the gaming company made Minh Le return to the life of a “lone wolf” prog... |
29 September 2009
16:31 GMT |
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There are a lot of first person shooter franchises out there, as it is a very popular genre and many people want to experience just what it is like to enter a battlefield and try to turn the tide in your favor and eventually win the battle. One of the most proficient franchises in the genre is Electronic Arts' ... |
17 August 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online games out there, having gained a huge number of fans thanks to its distinct gameplay and wide variety of character classes that are available for players around the world. But another distinct feature that the Valve-developed game has is the fact that it is running on the... |
16 June 2009
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Valve is one of the most appreciated companies in the gaming community because it really listens to fans and commits to releasing games when they are completely done, even though this usually means delays after delays. But one of the greatest resources ever to come from the company is its Source engine, which powered... |
25 April 2009
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Besides Hadoop, an open source distributed file system and parallel execution environment that enables its users to process massive amounts of data, whose main contributor Yahoo! has already been so far, the Sunnyvale, California based company announced today that it will be "the first in the industry to launch an op... |
12 November 2007
09:40 GMT |
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Valve may be a little slow when it comes to delivery dates, but when one of their games hits your PC, you are definitely going to remember it. Now some people might start wondering: is Half- Life 2 Episode 2 that good? The answer is simple. It's freaking good. They are getting better by the version and I kind of... |
14 October 2007
15:34 GMT |
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The Pentagon opened up a web-based system for soliciting ideas on space-based solar power and it wants as many citizens as possible to participate to the quest for potential applications of the technology, according to one of the officials leading the effort.Although the idea isn't exactly new, it's the fi... |
26 July 2007
06:33 GMT |
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The biggest drawback of most portable electronic devices, such as notebooks, cellphones, PDAs and many others is the fact that they become useless after the rechargeable batteries completely discharge.Unfortunately, the devices themselves have known huge developments, while their batteries remain a source of discont... |
16 July 2007
11:07 GMT |
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Thanks to one of Filefront.com's users, there is serious reason to believe that Half Life 2 Episode 2 is nearing final stages of completion and that gamers should be expecting it soon. Quite a big amount of details are being disclosed in the article from which I extracted some pieces, indicating that a hoax is p... |
10 May 2007
17:41 GMT |
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SiN Episodes: Emergence is exactly what someone would expect from a game based on the Valve engine. Do you remember how you could play different mods on the old Half-Life? Install and activate from the menu. This time it's somewhat different but nonetheless, I felt like I was playing a small variation of the Ci... |
5 April 2007
15:43 GMT |
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