A rather interesting post has popped up on the official Left 4 Dead blog that sort of rekindles last year’s Diablo 3 darkness debate. The post by developer Randy Lundeen explains why Valve made the decision to lighten up the look of the cooperative multiplayer shooter.
Lundeen writes that early versions of the game used a [...]

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Many gamers have been waiting silently for more Left 4 Dead content, but so far Valve has remained quiet. However, the company was supposed to make an announcement before Christmas, which somehow never materialized, according to Shacknews.
The site reports that Valve writer Chet Faliszek confirmed that an upcoming download would add new scenarios which would [...]

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Go get you Steam platform ready. Electronic Arts is going to use the platform to release its future game. And there’s a nice twist to that too! EA will launch games free of DRM over Steam. The company is ready to go to the next level of saving games. No more digital rights management issues [...]

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Valve has released results of its November PC hardware survey - it is a compilation of statistics taken from users of Steam, the company’s digital delivery service. The last quarter sees some small changes across the board, including the rise of Intel processors, multicore processors, ATI and DX10 graphics cards and the adoption of Windows [...]

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Besides revealing sales figures for their own games, it has been revealed that Garry’s Mod has sold 312,541 copies on Steam. This has undoubtedly brought much financial happiness to creator Garry Newman, who must have gotten over $3.12 million from the sales.
“GMod hasn’t just given me financial stability,” wrote Newman on his blog. “It’s also [...]

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Valve has finally released lifetime retail sales figures for some of its most popular games, including the Half-Life and Counter-Strike series. The sales figures reveal that the studio has sold over 32.8 million copies of their games since their first title back in 1998.
Interestingly, sales from Steam is not included in the below list, so [...]

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The closest real-life equivalent to Half-Life’s Black Mesa facility may be CERN, and that connection became even stronger when a photo of the Large Hadron Collider showed a Gordon Freeman look-alike standing by it.
Alarmed gamers at Reddit took the initiative of contacting CERN and the scientist in particular, giving him a wrecking bar, headcrab hat [...]

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Bringing one more great offer to PC gamers, Valve has announced that the upcoming PC port of Grand Theft Auto 4 is now available for pre-order on Steam, with those pre-ordering receiving the full PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as a cool pre-order bonus.
It would have been cooler to give San Andreas [...]

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Being a harbinger of great deals is often rare, but Steam does it two times at once!
First up, those who pre-purchase Tomb Raider: Underworld through the service will receive an entirely free copy of Tomb Raider: Legend to play in the meantime. You can also give it to a friend if you already own [...]

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Valve today announced that Left 4 Dead, its cooperative zombie shooter, will e the first game to support its free Steam Cloud technology, which automatically stores game settings online.
Initially Steam Cloud will store keyboard, mouse and gamepad configurations, along with multiplayer settings such as spraypaint images, on Steam. This will allow gamers to get [...]

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Valve had promised the demo for Left 4 Dead for early November, but it appears that those who pre-order the game from GameStop will get in on the fun earlier.
The game’s product page on GameStop promises “early access to the demo” from November 6 to 11 for those who reserve [...]

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A new set of system requirements for the PC version of Left 4 Dead, its upcoming cooperative multiplayer shooter, has been issued by Valve today. While the list is almost identical to the previous requirements, it lowers the minimum graphics card requirement from 256MB to 128MB.
The game will be released on PC and Xbox [...]

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No additional updates to Team Fortress 2 will be made this year, according to Valve’s Doug Lombardi. Valve is focusing everything it’s got to complete development of Left 4 Dead.
"Well, it won’t be this year," said Lombardi. "But we’re going to keep evolving TF2. Once Left 4 Dead wraps, you’ll hear us clamoring more [...]

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Freeman fans will want to kill Valve developers after they read this post: Half-Life 2: Episode Three isn’t expected to arrive for a whole… most probably 2010.
This comes from Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi: “The next time you play as Gordon will be longer than the distance between Half-Life 2 to Episode One, and [...]

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Valve has never been shy about letting everyone know how much they dislike developing on the PlayStation 3. More often than not if any given Valve title is on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, the PlayStation version will receive less attention, post launch, or even be released late. it would be logical for someone [...]

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In today’s first bit of surprising news, LittleBigPlanet developer Media Molecule revealed that they were working on a game described as “more Portally than Portal” and “Portal, but with scale factor.”
Apparently, the company even met with Valve, which suggested the two work on the game together.
"We were very tempted," said [...]

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Making the service even more invaluable, Valve has announced that its digital distribution platform Steam will begin offering free downloads of user-created mods.
These mods will be playable as long as a user has a Source-powered game installed. They will appear under the My Games listing and will receive automatic updates like any other Steam [...]

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The system requirements for the PC version of Valve’s upcoming cooperative multiplayer shooter Left 4 Dead have been released. This post on the Halflife2.net forums claims that they have received these requirements from Valve marketing VP Doug Lombardi.

OS: Windows Vista, XP or 2000
CPU: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 or AMD64X2 (or [...]

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Following up on Left 4 Dead, Valve revealed that the additional content released for the PC and Xbox 360 versions of Team Fortress 2 will not be made available for the PS3 version.
"They’re not doing ongoing development on The Orange Box for the PS3," said Gabe Newell.
"We don’t have PlayStation developers," added Valve marketing [...]

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Valve simply doesn’t like the PS3, it seems, as the studio has blown off any chances of a PS3 port of Left 4 Dead, which is coming to PC and Xbox 360 this November.
"We don’t have the bandwidth [to do Left 4 Dead on PS3]" said Valve co-founder Gabe Newell. [...]

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