After a week of not-so-subtle hinting, Valve have announced that Steam and the Source engine will be making an appearance for Mac users. This means that Mac users will get access to Valve’s range of games such as Left 4 Dead 1 & 2, Counter-Strike, Portal and the Half-Life series as well as future games like the newly announced Portal 2. Steam will launch in April [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, March 6, 2010
Hinted at for the past few months, and nearly confirmed through some sneaky updates to the original game, Portal 2 has now been officially confirmed on the newest cover of Game Informer. Unlike its predcessor, which took pride of place in The Orange Box in 2007, Portal 2 will be a fully fledged standalone game. With the incredible [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 18, 2009
The war is finally over and the victor with an impressive 6,406,065 kills is the Soldier. Just beating the Demoman by about 30,000 kills the solider has proved his worth as the best combantant and receives the Gunboats for all his hard work. Proving that stairs are practically useless, the Gunboats are secondary slot boots that reduce rocket [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, December 16, 2009
It’s getting closer and closer until update release day and to commerate it Valve have announced a free weekend of Team Fortress 2 starting Thursday night when the update goes live. Meanwhile the gap between demomen and soldiers is getting slimmer with about 100,000 kills between them and a shiny new weapon of mass destruction. Regardless of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Valve have revealed the first downloadable content for Left 4 Dead 2, a new episode called “The Passing”, which has our new survivors running into some familiar faces. The new campaign takes place after the events of Dead Center, set in “a small town in rural Georgia” where Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle have a chance meeting with Bill, Zoey, Francis [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Day four. The war update has divided and destroyed. Since the beginning over nine million soldiers and demomen have died, with heavier losses for the Scottish cyclops. So what is today’s good news for our battered mars bar muncher? The power of Christopher Lambert – the Eyelander and the Chargin Targe. Both new weapons give the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, December 11, 2009
After a week of mysterious sound files and a comic centred on the BLU Soldier and RED Demoman’s lifelong friendship it seems this latest patch forces them into war. Like normal patches three new weapons will be revealed for both the Soldier and Demoman classes over the next couple of days along with new achievements, maps, “surprises” and of course the inevitable server flooding of both [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 1, 2009
The sequel to last years co-op zombie success was met with angry hordes over its early announcement, yet despite this it has sold more than two million copies in its first two weeks on both PC and Xbox 360, doubling the sales figures of the original. “Left 4 Dead 2 is off to a great start with strong support at retail [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 16, 2009
Never one for dates Valve have announced the date of Left 4 Dead 2s demo. Sticking to their word, those who pre-ordered the game will get their hands on it one week earlier than the rest. The demo includes the first sections of The Parish, the campaign set amidst the ruins of New Orleans French Quarter. Like [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 8, 2009
Valve have announced the new game mode for Left 4 Dead 2 they have been keeping secret for so long and the aim is to, well, scavenge. Named Scavenger mode, the survivors have to find petrol cans scattered around the area, of which there are 16 in each map, and they then have to take to the [...]
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