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Left 4 Dead Demo Impressions
I got an early copy of the Left 4 Dead demo from GameStop today. The demo is slated to hit the Xbox Live Marketplace sometime next week, but with a pre-oprder at GameStop you can get it now. I was expecting a horror game, but really it is an action game with a horror/zombie setting. [...]
Continue reading...Left 4 Dead, Level 2 Gameplay Video
Friday, November 7, 2008
Andrew Burnes over at VE3D has thrown up 26mins of Left 4 Dead gameplay video from the demo. I found the following bit of gameplay the most representative of the environments, scenarios and team-dynamic going on in that title: I’ll admit, the first time I saw Left 4 Dead demoed (maybe a year ago?) I thought [...]
Continue reading...Zombie Invasion Coming
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Zombies and video games have always gone well together. In the past there have been some great zombie based games like Dead Rising, the Alone in the Dark series, and the Resident Evil series. While these games have their fans they don’t tend to be as mainstream as titles like the Call of Duty and [...]
Continue reading...The PC Game Market is Not Dead
Sunday, July 20, 2008
You remember that old saying “Follow the money?” whenever you wanted to find the answer to something? It still applies… For years now PC Gaming has “been dying” and giving way to consoles; the more locked down, publiser/advertiser friendly, vendor lock-in-encouraging devices that have meant to replace the 20 billion PC gamers on the planet. Yea after [...]
Continue reading...Valve Enhances Steam with Persistence Game Data Storage
Monday, June 2, 2008
This is pretty badass news for the gamers out there that can’t stand fending for themselves with regards to game data… it looks like Valve will be going the “we’ll save all your stuff for free” route by enhancing Steam with a generic ability to store game-data files like save games, configuration files, etc. The game [...]
Continue reading...Still Alive!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
If your as big of a fan of Portal as we are, you all know what the “Still alive” song is. This week it was announced that the song will be available for Rock Bank. Well at the Game Developers Conference on Friday, Jonathan Coulton performed a live demo.
Continue reading...Portal Gun in Half Life 2
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Chris Hunkele sent in this kick-ass news. It looks like there is a way to hack Half Life 2 (and any of the HL2-based games) to include the new Portal gun from Portal. Primotechnology has the scoop, here are the steps: First off, backup up your entire Portal directory in a safe place. It’s the folder marked [...]
Continue reading...Team Fortress 2 Trailer
Saturday, September 2, 2006
Team Fortress 2 was always the much-waited for sequel to the hit team-based combat HL1-modification Team Fortress. The whole idea of team-based online combat was reshaped with the release of Team Fortress (It started as a hit Quake modification) but a sequel was never released. Right around the time Team Fortress 2 was suppose to [...]
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
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