Valve Store Update: Cubes! Posters! Headcrabs! Other Stuff!
Posted by inpheaux on December 14th, 2007 at 11:14 pmWell, the day is finally here. Time to rush rush rush to buy Weighted Companion Cube merchandise.
Valve has two options to fill the Weighted-Companion-Cube-Shaped void in your life: Full-size plush (6" cube) or Fuzzy-dice-sized (4" cubes).
They've got other new stuff, too, like some new Aperture Labs Propaganda Posters and an Aperture Labs Mug.
Then there's the [...]
Sunday Dramabomb: Vivendi & Activision merge into “Activision Blizzard”
Posted by inpheaux on December 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pmIn today's "Certainly Didn't See That Coming" news, Vivendi Games and Activision have buddied up to form "Activision Blizzard".
So . . . it looks like we're down to three omni-platform super-developer/publishers now. In one corner we have EA, the only company allowed to make sports games, and who will be making sports games with tiny [...]
Deus Ex 3 formally announced. Why, Eidos, why?
Posted by inpheaux on November 26th, 2007 at 3:19 pmEarlier in the year - much earlier - Eidos announced plans to open a new big fancy studio in Montreal. Ok, fine, all kinds of developers have studios in Montreal, most notably EA and Ubisoft, but today they actually opened up.
Oh and they announced that their first game would be another multi-platform Deus Ex.
With no [...]
Review Megapost: Shooters, Future Law, Gimmicks and Hobos
Posted by inpheaux on October 28th, 2007 at 8:01 pmWe've been holding onto this set for awhile. It just kept snowballing, you know? Well, here they all are in descending order of quality.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
BioShock - PC / 360 - The best single-player game I've played since System Shock 2.
Portal - PC / 360 (and eventually PS3) - The second-best single-player game I've played since [...]
BAD END: Bioware & Pandemic gobbled-up by EA
Posted by inpheaux on October 11th, 2007 at 7:14 pmAll bad news, all the time.
Out of nowhere, EA has decided that it would be super neat if they went ahead and bought-out Bioware and Pandemic, to build upon their game-development Empire of Doom. If they were another less-established pair of independent developers, sure, this would be pretty decent news, since it would mean stable [...]
Fortress Forever out now!
Posted by inpheaux on September 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pmSo, since Valve's little announcement stole Fortress Forever's thunder for Monday, the FF team kicked themselves into overdrive and got their mod out today.
Yes, so you can go play it right now. (Windows and Linux dedicated servers are also available.)
Now you can enjoy your bunnyhopping, conc-jumping, grenade-jumping, rocket-jumping, and whatever other kind of jump-based lunacy [...]
Last remnant of FASA closes up shop
Posted by inpheaux on September 12th, 2007 at 8:35 pmAbout six years ago FASA Corporation, the Pen & Paper RPG Juggernaut responsible for such licenses as BattleTech and Shadowrun, abruptly closed up shop. Their works lived on, though, as their electronics division had recently been bought by Microsoft, and their PnP games were eventually licensed around to a variety of companies.
Today, FASA Studio, that [...]
Good News and Bad News about The Orange Box preorder
Posted by inpheaux on September 11th, 2007 at 1:05 pmNot to be outdone by Fortress Forever's announcement of their mod being released next Monday, Valve have turned around and made their own announcement:
The Orange Box is up on Steam right now.
Good News: If you pre-order it now, you save $5 and get to play the Team Fortress 2 beta starting (you guessed it) next [...]
Hellgate: London preorder bonuses (and Beta!)
Posted by inpheaux on September 11th, 2007 at 9:16 amFinally, a valid reason to preorder stuff. If you preorder Hellgate: London over the course of the next month (from Best Buy, Wal-Mart or Gamestop/EB), you'll get a couple of bonuses instantly. First, and most importantly, you get access to the beta, which will run from 17 SEP 2007 to 7 OCT 2007. Characters created [...]
Fortress Forever: Finally being released on 17 SEP 2007
Posted by inpheaux on September 11th, 2007 at 7:54 amAfter years of development and constant fears that the game had evaporated, the team behind Fortress Forever have finally set a release date for their HL2 true-to-the-original remake of Team Fortress Classic: Next Monday, 17 SEP 2007.
Fortress Forever is a third-party mod for Half-Life 2 that started years ago because some developers got sick of [...]