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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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One of the big things about PC gaming is the ability to take a base game experience and then create something new around it, expanding one element of the gameplay. The modding community is vibrant and Valve titles, like Half Life and Left 4 Dead, have been some of the most popular when it comes to mods. With the comp... |
10 November 2009
16:41 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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Direct2Drive, the digital distribution service owned by IGN, has announced that it will not be selling Modern Warfare 2, the most recent entry in the very successful Call of Duty series, because Infinity Ward and Activision have decided to include Steamworks, created by Valve, in the release itself.The statement deli... |
6 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 managed to stir quite the commotion when its teaser trailers started to be released. The “Meet the Cast” series revealed the game to be a hilarious interpretation of the classic TF of the original Half Life. The title is an online first-person shooter based on a class system that contains ... |
30 October 2009
05:31 GMT |
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Some little guy comes up with a great idea and then some bigger guy decides that he should do it too. It's usually how things work in any industry and now, Left 4 Dead 2 may take some hints from Splosion Man. The zombie shooter could offer wearable Avatar items for in-game accomplishments. MTV Multiplayer spotte... |
29 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Infinity Ward, as the developer, and Activision, as the publisher, have announced that the upcoming Modern Warfare 2 is set to use the Steamworks suite from Valve to handle a variety of elements of the game experience, from patching and updating the title to offering achievements on the PC, providing anti-cheating me... |
26 October 2009
06:44 GMT |
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The Australian rating board has confirmed that the original version of Left 4 Dead 2, the zombie shooter from Valve and Electronic Arts, will not be allowed under any circumstances to be sold and marketed in the country. Its recent decision upholds the initial judgment related to the video game that said that the lev... |
23 October 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Randy Pitchford, the leader of Gearbox, creator of Borderlands and a known straight talker, has recently commented that Steam, the digital distribution service created and maintained by Valve, could be a problem for smaller developers because of its potential to be a monopoly and because of the conflict of interest w... |
17 October 2009
10:31 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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Valve is saying that one of the elements of Left 4 Dead 2, set to be released for the PC and the Xbox 360 from Microsoft in November, that has received special attention from the development team is the AI Director, which directs all the Infected forces in the game.Valve has put out a statement saying that the new Di... |
14 October 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Left 4 Dead 2 was originally criticized for the fact that it would be a sequel designed by Valve so that it could extract more money from fans while offering no real new content.Of course, since the videogame was first announced, Valve has talked to the player community for the first Left 4 Dead and explained what it... |
9 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Australian Left 4 Dead fans specifically and videogame enthusiasts all over the world should be happy to hear that, in some form or another, Left 4 Dead 2 will be outed in the Land Down Under on the official release date. A modified version of the game has been approved by the Classification Board, which needs to put... |
9 October 2009
04:15 GMT |
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Most PC gamers tend to think of Steam, the distribution service from Valve, as being a very useful tool. It allows for games to be downloaded, patches are quickly applied, it eliminates the need to store a lot of disks and permits for all the game purchases to be tied to a single online identity. But it seems that so... |
8 October 2009
07:40 GMT |
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It appears that Valve has submitted an edited version of Left 4 Dead 2 to the Australian Classification Board in order to get it a rating and then on store shelves on the already announced date of November 17.The Board, which approves all the videogames that are released in the country, previously stated that the zom... |
7 October 2009
17:51 GMT |
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Warcraft 3 is one of the most acclaimed real-time strategy games even seven years after its official release date. The powerful and compelling story behind the game as well as the RPG-infused elements made it a true masterpiece. The game was later vitalized by the Frozen Throne single player campaign but also by the ... |
6 October 2009
10:01 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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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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Valve Software, which has developed Left 4 Dead 2, and Electronic Arts, which is set to distribute the video game, have appealed to the refusal of Australia's Office of Film and Literature Classification to rate the title, which effectively means that it cannot be marketed or sold in that country. The board has ... |
25 September 2009
18:21 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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The Australian Classification Board, the body that is responsible for rating all the video games that are to be released in the country, has refused to award a rating to Left 4 Dead 2, the upcoming zombie, cooperative shooter from Valve, which was set to arrive in November. The decision basically means that the game ... |
17 September 2009
05:30 GMT |
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Valve is getting ready to release Left 4 Dead 2 in November and the development team at the company is busy talking about how this new release is different from the first game in the series, which managed to be a surprise hit last year. The emphasis is allaying the fears of gamers who might be thinking that they are ... |
8 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online shooters out there, thanks to the solid support that the team from Valve gave to the players of the cartoon-style game. From various patches to big content updates, the developers did a fine job of supporting the title.Now, with the most recent update, a break from the nor... |
14 August 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online shooters out there, owning much of its established fan base to the fact that new content is being released periodically, managing to keep the experience fresh and exciting for players. But while all of the other updates released so far were centered on one or more classes... |
13 August 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest online games out there, managing to win over fans with its distinct art style, tongue-in-cheek approach to weaponry and gameplay and for the top-notch online connectivity. Also, the effort of creating new content on the part of the team at Valve made plenty of players realize ju... |
12 August 2009
05:19 GMT |
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It's hard to believe it but Games for Windows Live is two years old and Microsoft seems determined to push the service forward, despite claims from gamers that it provided lousy matchmaking and that it was badly integrated with videogames.Last week, the Redmond-based company released version 3.0 of the software,... |
10 August 2009
13:11 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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Valve has announced that it plans to take down most of the Steam services at about 6:00 PM Pacific time on August 6. The company is estimating that the downtime will not be longer than three hours, so all the services should be back up by 9:00 PM if all goes according to plan. If there is anything wrong, Valve promis... |
6 August 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Valve is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming, particularly in the segment dedicated to the PC platform. Seeing as how its games were the basis for many multiplayer titles, like Counter Strike, the competitive side of gaming also preoccupied the game developer. One of its most successful titles and the on... |
5 August 2009
11:01 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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Team Fortress 2 is one of the biggest multiplayer-only video games, as the team from Valve spent quite some time balancing it out and delivering a great and varied first person shooter experience to players all around the world. The support from the team was even more evident when they announced various content upda... |
29 July 2009
03:17 GMT |
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Ever since the surprise announcement that Valve was working on a sequel to Left 4 Dead, which is set to ship later in 2009, the developer has let out a trickle of news related to the title, showing players the improvements that would be implemented as compared with the first game in the series.It's rather unusua... |
9 July 2009
18:21 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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The Gamer's Edition of the well-known Guiness World Records book has a new and very interesting feat to show off. On June 15, in Stockholm, Bjorn "Threat" Pers managed to get the record for “most kills in Counter-Strike (Valve, 2003) in 12 hours” with 518. The record will be included in the 2010 vers... |
7 July 2009
02:34 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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For quite some time, videogame industry figures have said that Steam and other digital distribution platforms were set to eat up market share from traditional retailers and that a trade war was brewing between the two camps.It appears that rather than hurting sales of boxed copies of videogames, digital delivery is a... |
6 July 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The gaming industry certainly has a lot of big video game publishers, including the likes of Electronic Arts or Activision, which dominate the playing field, but other smaller companies like 2K Games also managing to release quality titles thanks to their established franchises. PC gamers that are also fans of title... |
3 July 2009
12:41 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 is one of the most loved companies in the gaming industry, thanks to its very good titles and to the fact that it struggles to offer the best experience to all of the platforms on which it brings its games. Fresh from declaring that it has a very good relationship with Microsoft, which is responsible for both ... |
17 June 2009
13:01 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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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
02:21 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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