Damn I need to re-install TF2. Love the sound of a lot of these changes, though not so keen on others. I especially like the sound of the Soldier Banner buffs. Also the Cow Manger is no longer a cluster****, though I'm still not going to use it.
Gabe has used Ricochet 2 as code for Half-Life 3 before, but this could just be a joke. As in now that Dota 2 is out Valve need to go and '2'ify all their other games before they can get to a 3 of anything. So we can look forward to Ricochet 2, Day of Defeat 2, Alien Swarm 2, Counter-Strike 2...
Signs are pointing to tomorrow, Thursday the 11th, at about 10am pacific time. Time left courtesy of Wolfram Alpha.
I might get Fallout NV and Walking Dead DLC. I have enough games ATM to be quite honest unless they're selling Anodyne for less than a euro or something. I'll try to take part in...
There are many complaints that Valve have started to ignore balance and gameplay in Team Fortress 2 in favour of pushing new weapons and hats but Valve have announced on the Team Fortress 2 blog that the next update will have many weapons rebalances including the removal of gameplay effects from...
Bad: It has unlisted 3rd party DRM.
Good: It has a cheat mode so if you don't feel like grinding you can boost your characters to max level whenever you feel like if you really want to know what Ruby Weapon's death animation is.
After being teased all the way back in August on the Valve Linux blog the Linux version of Left 4 Dead 2 has finally reached official release. Also coming out of beta is the Extended Mutation System which allows players to use the in-game mutation system to create new game modes and share them...
Today, the Sven Co-op team have released what may be the final update for one of the most popular Half-Life mods ever created. Sven Co-op allows users to play co-operative games in a huge variety of custom maps and missions in Half-Life's GoldSrc engine as well as the levels from the official...
Police Squad! It's a six episode TV show that's pretty much the precursor to the Naked Gun. It got cancelled because audiences at the time didn't get it because the joke density was just too high. If you liked the Naked Gun it's pretty much the exact same thing as a TV show.
No one is annoyed about people just mentioning Half-Life in a reasonable manner. People are sick of it being brought up in completely unrelated discussions (whenever a Dota 2 update is released someone somewhere makes the amazing, incredible, ingenious observation that Dota 2 is not, in fact...