02Sep
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 12:23 am
Valve’s promising three big surprises within the next 12 months. Of course, they refused to give out any details that would even hint to what those surprises may be. But wait, since it’s supposed to surprise us, that means it’s not supposed to be Episode 3. Well, I guess I’m waiting to be surprised then.
On the other hand, Gabe has said said they’re working with biometrics in order to… do fancy unspecified things. I’m just hoping it doesn’t turn into some wii-fangled accessory that monitors your heart rate or something. They have said they’re trying to come up with a lightweight noninvasive method of gathering data like this, but I just want my HL2EP3. And the polycount update.
Tags: gabe, surprise, valve
23Aug
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 12:29 pm
Alright what’ve we got. The Sacrifice, the new DLC campaign for L4D and L4D2. In addition to the campaign where one player will have to take one for the team, Valve will also retrofit No Mercy to work with L4D2, and they’ll release a nice online comic too. This comes out in October.
I don’t recall if Portal 2 Co-op was announced in the past, but Valve’s release a nice little trailer for it on youtube.
This isn’t news, but some guy hacked up a trombone and fitted it with some incendiary equipment. Okay, the flamethrower trombone is cool but am I the only one that feels nervous when he turns it on in his room near all those easily combustible materials?
Oh, and a random item generator. It churns out some really underpowered stuff, we know.
EDIT: Oh, you silly racing fans. The heavy ain’t a truck.
Tags: l4d2, tf2, valve
20Aug
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 2:24 pm
Remember the contribute site, more specifically the part where you could submit avatars? Well, Valve put up a new page on their site where the submitted avatars are randomly displayed. However, expect to see some pretty unrelated, bad, poorly made and weird avatars on those pages. I don’t think Valve did any quality control on any of these. There’s even this thing which I seem to recognize from somewhere.
Tags: avatars, tf2, valve
19Jul
Offbeat. Posted by EvilDaed @ 8:36 pm
A new Valve game, Alien Swarm is out. From the gameplay trailer, it looks fun. It’s a top-down 4 player coop game, you might remember it as a UT2004 mod. I never played it, but really, it looks interesting.
Also, it’s free.
Also, they’re giving out the source code and tools for free.
It’s dangerous to go alone, take this.
EDIT: Also also also, one of the achievements in Alien Swarm gives you a hat in TF2. Valve, you sneaky bastards.
Tags: free, store, valve
24Jun
Offbeat. Posted by EvilDaed @ 8:25 am
Well, not anymore.
Really though, a lot of ludicrous achievements should be kept secret. You really can’t get them by trying in an online match.
Tags: css, mac, valve
09Jun
Offbeat. Posted by EvilDaed @ 8:57 pm
Valve announced no Portal 2 at E3 a few days ago or so, but I thought I already posted an article on it. Apparently the surprise is P2-themed, but the surprise is the fact that P2 gets delayed. Don’t worry, they’ll make it better. Cheers for the link, Odin.
Meanwhile, I’ve been making a small python script that reads your spray directory and cycles your active spray randomly from them. Okay, this may not have any real use to most of you but I felt like doing it. Might upload it later on as .exe and source if people ask for it.
EDIT: Oh, blog update. White earphones means nothing interesting will happen.
Tags: gaben, portal 2, valve
06May
Offbeat. Posted by EvilDaed @ 9:22 pm
I’ve been flu’d since monday, and the headaches were pretty much the reason why I didn’t really post anything lately. But now that my noggin’s fine I finally finished the vid I was working on. Click on trendy entrepreneur Gaben to proceed.
Coincidentally, I found out about the not-so-secretly announced Engie update just as I was rendering the newest vid. Also platinum medals now available for people who preordered TF2. Remember when the pyro had to light people on fire with a pocket lighter?
The Wolfire humble games bundle caught my eye this week. You don’t often get to pay anything you want for 5 games, much less pick where you want the money to go.
Oh, I almost forgot. I’ve been using a shoutbox to chat with authors that were on the site back when they were active, but since it hasn’t seen much use lately I decided to make it available to subscribers. Anyone that has an account here should be able to use it. Just scroll down, and you should see it.
Tags: bundle, engie, tf2, valve, wolfire
28Mar
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 12:28 am
Jolly old Gabe Newell blurted out a bit of info on CVG recently regarding how he envisions a future game of theirs. Notice, he wasn’t referring to EP3.
“I feel like we’ve gotten away from genuinely scaring the player more than I’d like, and it’s something we need to think about, in addition to broadening the emotional palette we can draw on.”
I for one welcome our new pants-shitting overlords.
Tags: gaben, valve
13Mar
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 1:04 am
Here’s Gabe Newell’s Pioneer award acceptance speech. One of the best parts is when he touches on the subject of DRM. Considering the state of PC gaming this year, you have to wonder if he’s the only guy that actually knows how to properly sell a game to a client.
Yeah, there’s a secret message in there, gist of it is “SUSPEND UNTIL EEE”, meaning more interesting Valve stuff is gonna be at E3.
Tags: award, gabe, gdc, valve
06Mar
News. Posted by EvilDaed @ 1:00 am
Portal 2 is officially confirmed. It’ll also have co-op. More coverage here. You can almost feel the excitement violently emanating from me.
Tags: portal, sarcasm, valve
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