Responsible for Half-Life and its sequel as well as the extremely popular Team Fortress 2 and original Left 4 Dead, but the release of Left 4 Dead 2 has raised...
Valve has always had some cool stuff in their official store (like headcrabs!), now they’ve updated, timely enough, with holiday cards with both Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and even Left 4 Dead as well. They’re priced at $16 for 10 cards. Check them out at the Valve store.
Video of bears playing ice hockey. Via . And a few more links: 1. The Chronicle Herald reports that Peta held an event to promote new device that "humanely" kills lobsters and invited lots of people. Unfortunately, the device broke. So Peta instead killed hundreds of lobsters in the traditional inhumane manner to satiate the people they'd invited. Via . 2. Team Fortress 2 cosplay . 3. A...
Game Review: Left 4 Dead 2 Release: November 17 (NA) November 20 (EU) Genre: Survival Horror/ Shooter Developer: Valve Software Available Platforms: 360, PC Players: 1-2, (1-8 online) MSRP: $59.99 ESRB Rating: M Website: http://www.l4d.com Valve. Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead. All of them are diverse and innovative titles, with top-notch quality and the ‘Valve touch’...
When Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 during Microsoft's E3 2009 press conference -- less than seven months after the release of the award-winning original -- gamers were, perhaps rightfully, shocked. This was the same Valve that spent nearly ten years iterating on Team Fortress 2 and whose experiment in episodic gaming has forced us to reevaluate our expectations for future installments of Half-Life...
Valve's Steam platform is pretty much the biggest player in digital distribution right now. They dominate the market in ways that get Randy Pitchford's underwear in knots . One of the reasons they stand on top of the pile is that they often sell to PC gamers in ways that makes piracy look like the less favorable option, as opposed to trying weird crackdowns that only inflame our wrath. Another way...
There's an interesting statistic to be found in a Gamasutra interview with Steam's Jason Holtman, published earlier today. Concerning Team Fortress 2, and just how often Valve feel the need to tinker...
Speaking to GI.biz , Valve's head of Steam , Jason Holtman, had some interesting things to say about the company's frequent deals and their effect on long-term game sales. According to Holtman, Steam's quick game sales -- offering Team Fortress 2 for $2.49 for only a few hours last month, for example -- don't have a negative impact on a game's long-term performance. Holtman notes that once a brick-and-mortar...
As you can see above, some experiences only really pop with 16 colors and four-channel sound. Solo dev Eric Ruth of PixelForce is working on an 8-bit "demake" of the original Left 4 Dead , promising all four campaigns, all five special infected, and two-player cooperative action à la Smash TV . So far only the Boomer seems to be included, but hopefully the rest of the cast will work...
Perhaps taking a page from the Team Fortress 2 Valentines from last year, Valve's offering four sets of gift cards - with characters from TF2, Left 4 Dead, and L4D2 - that are simply a holiday must....
If there's one thing the videogames industry is good at, it's figuring out a way for any normal thing a gamer does in their life to include videogames. Case in point: Valve's brand new holiday greeting cards, featuring amazing Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 themes ( via Destructoid). Seriously, who wouldn't want a holiday greeting card of a TF2 sniper disguised as an adorable snowman? There are four...
Valve continues to show their character and sense of humor by releasing holiday cards featuring the different classes of Team Fortress 2 in funny situations, such as the Pyro melting a snowman, the Sniper giving the Scout a sweater with a target embroidered on it, and other silliness.