Update: Team Fortress 2 artwork released
Posted by inpheaux on July 14th, 2006 at 9:50 pmYesterday, I commented that I would be reserving judgement until I saw it for myself. I can now say that I fully endorse the new art direction. This is way better than "generic modern military combat". If we want that, we can play Battlefield 2.
Earlier today Valve weighed in with their official update about all [...]
TEAM FORTRESS 2, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!
Posted by inpheaux on July 13th, 2006 at 9:16 pmNow would probably be a good time to proceed to your fallout shelters, since this is irrefutable proof that the apocalypse is right around the corner.
During an EA press conference today, where they announced such thrilling things as how we should all be happy that they're bringing EA-brand shovelware to the Wii, a massive bomb [...]
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 available today at Noon ET
Posted by inpheaux on June 1st, 2006 at 3:07 amAbout a year after it was announced, the first of (at least) three episodic Half-Life 2 single player expansion packs is just about ready for release. The Official Site has a nice big orange countdown to Noon today, when the game will be unlocked on Steam if you've already coughed up your $20. If you [...]
Half-Life 2: “Episode 1″ slips a month
Posted by inpheaux on March 26th, 2006 at 4:17 amThe Half-Life 2 single-player expansion pack "Episode 1", formerly titled "Aftermath", has apparently slipped a month. I guess this is the real problem with switching to a primarily-online and developer-controlled distribution structure. You can quite easily change your release date to whatever you want, you don't have to worry about shuffling gold cds to manufacturing [...]
Bride of ‘Indie Games You Should Know’
Posted by inpheaux on March 5th, 2006 at 5:17 pmIt's March, so I guess it's time for another Indie Games You Should Know. I've got a lot of things to cover today.
GridWars - A freeware PC/Mac clone of the Xbox Live smash-hit 'Geometry Wars'. If you've played Geometry Wars, you know what to expect. It's a very good clone of the game. If you [...]
Half-Life 2: Aftermath gets a releasedate
Posted by inpheaux on January 9th, 2006 at 10:17 pmIt's been a few months since we last heard anything about the upcoming HL2 single player expansion pack. Today, Planet Half-Life brings us news straight from Doug Lombardi:
"Aftermath and Half-Life 2: Platinum are due out on April 24.
HL1 DM will be included in Aftermath, and released fairly close to the same time."
"Half-Life 2: Platinum" is [...]
Weekly Valve news - Lost Coast & Xbox Port
Posted by inpheaux on October 28th, 2005 at 8:25 amHey, Look. Stuff to download. If you've got Half-Life 2, restart Steam and you'll be presented with Lost Coast. What's Lost Coast? Quoth SteamPowered:
Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine.
As this is effectively a tech demo, it has a quite hefty set of system [...]
Valve pushes first “Steam 3″ update
Posted by inpheaux on October 12th, 2005 at 2:35 amEarlier today, Valve pushed the first of several upcoming incremental updates leading towards "Steam 3". Steam 3 is the next version of the Steam platform, and prominently features a UI overhaul (which now makes it the fattest, roundest, and most-non-native windows application I run), and a much tigher integration with the Steam purchase / delivery [...]
Blizzard teases us again
Posted by inpheaux on October 6th, 2005 at 7:08 pmIt must be that time again. Time for another Blizzard teaser page. Blizzard loves teaser pages, they do them more often than any other company I can think of. Usually they're a bit more complex than the one currently up at Battle.net, but . . whatever. I'll take what I can get.
The flash applet shown [...]
Day of Defeat: Source released, plus other Steam news
Posted by inpheaux on September 27th, 2005 at 9:00 amAs we reported earlier, Day of Defeat: Source was successfully released right on time yesterday. Not really a whole lot to say about this, It's DoD:S, we already told you all about it, and all 47 different ways you can go pay for it now. Now you can. So go do it.
In other Steam news, [...]