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Tripwire defends Steam
Gearbox recently made headlines by criticizing Valve’s Steam for not only giving developers a bad deal, but also for being in a conflict of interest between Valve and its Steam content delivery platform. Now Tripwire — developers of the Red Orchestra series — boss John Gibson thinks otherwise, saying that the company wouldn’t exist without Steam. Gibson said, “…Is Valve exploiting independent developers? In short: absolutely not. Without pulling any punches, I can say with certainty that if it weren’t for Steam, there would be no Tripwire Interactive right now.”
Gibson goes on to further praise Steam contract, saying “the first one we had seen that didn’t have any land mines in it”. He did mention the conflict of interest, but noted that Valve does a good job handling it.
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New DLC for Killing Floor, both free and paid
Killing Floor will be seeing some new downloadable content, as revealed today by the game’s developer Tripwire Interactive. First, a free DLC package titled “Heavy Metal” will be released, featuring a new map called the “Foundry” and two new weapons; the classic AK-47 and a Japanese Katana Sword.
Tripwire also mentioned that they are planning a paid DLC for the zombie FPS, which will feature four new playable characters, two of which are “a Horzine foundry worker and a soldier in prototype Horzine body armor.”
Right now, Killing Floor is only available via Steam, where it competes with fellow zombie shooter Left 4 Dead. For people who can’t handle the bandwidth, the game will be available in stores worldwide soon.
via BigDownload