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Half Life 2 as an 80’s Movie.
Well ok not quite an actual full blown movie, but Agentscarlet over at deviantART has created a superb poster showing how Half Life 2: Episode 2 could have been advertised had it been a movie in the 1980’s.
I think you’ll agree he has done an awesome job and if you look closely, even the gnome [...]
L4D2 DLC The Passing due this week.
After missing the originally planned (if tentative) March release window; Valve have finally announced the release of Left 4 Dead 2’s expansion ‘The Passing’ and its due this week.
In case you’ve been stuck in a cloud of volcanic ash recently, ‘The Passing’ is a brand new campaign Valve have designed for Left 4 Dead 2 [...]
Kids Choir sing Portal’s Still Alive.
I’ve been to many varied performances by my own children but I’m sure if my kids had performed the closing song from Valve’s Portal I’d probably have been close to tears!
But that’s exactly what some (lucky?) parents have experienced as this new video posted on YouTube shows. The Gifford Children’s Choir are seen here performing [...]
Team Fortress 2 now available in 2D.
The first release of Dylan ‘Steaky’ Loney’s Team Fortress 2 mod The Great Class Dash is now available for download at Mapcore.
Clocking in at a paltry 69MB, the mod transforms Valve’s TF2 into a side scrolling platforming game similar in style to Canabalt.
You’ll start off as the Scout and as you progress access to the [...]
Left 4 Dead: Funny Episodes 2.
Check out this brilliant Left 4 Dead parody I recently found on You Tube by VARZeek 777. Its side splittingly funny, especially Louis’s ‘peelz’ sequence which starts at 5:20. Enjoy!
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Portal Update: Did Chell set Glados free?
There’s been a lot of talk in the last week or so regarding Portal ever since Valve updated the PC version of the game with a new achievement – Transmission Achieved. The achievement could be obtained by finding all of the various in-game radios Valve has added to the game and taking them to various [...]
A question of balance.
There was a time when multiplayer videogames in the first person shooter genre were based on one core concept; and that concept was purely the skill of the player. This skill was based on experience and the more hours a player played their game of choice, the better they became at utilising the toolset presented [...]
Original L4D Survivors to star in L4D2 DLC.
Valve has made my week by announcing that the first DLC due for Left 4 Dead 2 in ‘early spring’ will feature the Survivors from the original game.
Zoey, Bill, Francis and Louis will meet up with Coach, Nick, Ellis and Rochelle in a campaign called ‘The Passing’, which will be set after the events [...]
Were the Demoman and Soldier really friends?
With the new WAR style Demoman/Soldier update just days away, the activity in Team Fortress 2 has been amazing with a real spike wedged between players; names are popping up all over the place showing stern belief in their classes superiority. But even more amazing than that is the fact I’m starting to favour the [...]
2010: The Top Ten Games You Should Care About.
Now that the behemoth that is Modern Warfare 2 has been released to the masses and 2009 begins to draw to a close in terms of major games releases, its time to look forward to what 2010 has in store.
In many ways 2009 has been a great year for gamers; the PS3 became affordable, slim, and [...]
