Oh Valve, you coy little bitch!
Valve boss Gabe Newell recently came out to PC Gamer and revealed Valve was working on “at least three big surprises” in the next 12 months. How much are you willing to bet Half-Life Episode 3 won’t be among those surprises?
Who knew there were better uses for an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device than making your teammates’ existence a living Hell?
Apparently, at the very least, they make your teammate a useful button-pressing device.
Hit the link to Gametrailers to check the video out!
Bill, Zoey, Francis, Louis. We’ve laughed together. We’ve cried together. We’ve ran like little girls from Witches and Tanks together. But now Valve is going to let us pick which one of you gets to become zombie chow.
In what can only be considered a valiant effort to defeat Valve Time, Valve Software announced the new top-down co-op shooter Alien Swarm last week, to be released today (Monday July 19th) for free. [Update: Out now!]
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It’s summer, meaning it’s time for sales! Steam sales, that is. Valve has announced a massive “Perils of Summer” sale, which starts today, lasting all the way through July 4th.
Whole collections of games are getting their prices slashed down, which means you can get hundereds of games for a mere fraction of their full price. There will also be one-day-only sales, with certain games being 90% off. That is a hell of a deal.
Mac users, have you been making full use of Steam, that wonderful, wonderful program that Valve created?
If you haven’t, why not start off by downloading Counter Strike: Source, the #1 online action game. In the world! You’ll get achievements, cross platform-play, player stats tracking your skills, kills and deaths, and much, much more! For two days only, starting today, the title is on sale on Steam.
“The #1 online action game in the world, Counter-Strike: Source (CSS) has just received a major update and is now available for the Mac. CSS is a SteamPlay title, so if you own it on the PC – you own it on the Mac”
The E3 Expo is over for this year, and we learned a ton of new stuff. We know the name and games for Microsoft’s Kinect, we know what the new Zelda title is, we know what David Jaffe has been working on, and that there’s a new Rayman title in the works. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! However, there were some things gamers were expecting to see, but that never appeared. Here’s a rundown of things that were MIA.
Today has been another exciting day at E3 2010. Today we saw Nintendo and Sony, rivals for over a decade, show off their newest creations. Needless to say, the announcements today were utterly mindblowing, and we even got a special surprise thrown in from Valve!
Before you continue, be sure to take a look at yesterday’s overview for Day One of the expo. And now, on to E3 2010 Day Two! Keep on reading for all of the big announcements from Nintendo and Sony, as well as trailers and gameplay footage straight from LA! Read the rest of this entry »
Portal 2 has officially been announced for the PlayStation 3. This announcement came courtesy of a very nervous looking Gabe Newell during Sony’s E3 press conference.
“PlayStation 3 is the most open platform of all the current generation consoles and has worked extremely hard to make the platform the most desirable for consumers and developers.
As such, we are delighted to announce Portal 2 for the PlayStation 3 and believe the Steamworks support included will make it the best console version of the game,” Newell stated in a press release.
A quick launch trailer was also shown, which you can find below. It looks like the player and GLAdOS will be teaming up to fight whatever’s taken over the Aperture Science facility.
Steam, your favorite source for digital distribution of the latest PC (and now Mac!) video games is hosting a special sale this week on EA titles.
We found a screenshot highlighting the sales for each day of this week. Each day from June 14 to June 21, 2010, Steam will have a special deal on certain EA titles. You’ll have to check each day for the specific details, but we do have the following screenshots showing what games will be available for each day. Read the rest of this entry »
You know that frustration? You know the one. You are an Engineer. Going along your business, putting up a Sentry. And an undercover Spy comes along and SAPS THE SHIT OUT OF IT.
Well, if you’re a Mac user, you’ll be able to share the experience starting tomorrow, since Mac’s Steam will be getting this glorious multiplayer game.
Fook me, that was fast. Valve confirmed today that their upcoming E3 surprise will be “Portal 2 themed”, which means we can all stop wondering.
This confirmation came at the same time as a presser revealed that the game would be delayed. How sad. The reason? The same as always, to make the game better.
“Representatives from both companies acknowledged that public safety concerns factored into the decision. They went on to say that even though Portal 2 will arrive slightly later than planned, all life on earth won’t instantaneously stop as every molecule in your body explodes at the speed of light, which is what would happen should a rip ever appear in the fabric of Valve Time.
“Also, the game will be even better.
“To ask questions about how close we all came to dying, or to ask futile questions about the previously announced E3 ***PORTAL-2-THEMED-FOR-GOD’S SAKE*** surprise…”
That’s it! Hopefully a trailer or a level will be revealed at E3.
While we all love Valve, the games they make, and the things they add to said games, we’re still waiting for them to wrap up the Half-Life series. And another nail in Half-Life 2: Episode 3′s coffin has just been pounded in.
After Valve’s E3 event was canceled last week, speculation began on what Valve’s “surprise” might be. But according to fansite Halflife2.net, Valve boss Gabe Newell sent out a PM to a staff writer to simply say “it isn’t Ep 3″.
There was also a supposed teaser image leaked online last week, which Newell quickly stamped as “fake“. Speculation may continue on what the surprise might be.
My guess is a full on Half-Life 3, since the end of the saga has to be so epic it can’t be contained in a single episodic video game.
Valve has sent out a press release, cancelling the planed reveal of Portal 2 at their E3 press conference, and will apparently replace it with a “surprise”.
At least when Valve brings sad news, they do it in style. Read the fantastic press release after the break.
Several days ago, we reported that Portal is now available on Steam for free, in celebration of Valve’s successful port of the game (as well as many others) to the Mac platform.
Turns out that news travels fast on this new, exciting platform called the “internet”, and since the game was released for free, it has been downloaded over 1.5 million times.
