24th March 2014 + Second Anniversary Giveaway! - ValveTime Weekly News Round-Up

[Omnomnick]

On this week's show, we're talking about the Steam Controller showing at GDC 2014, the launch of the "Free to Play" Dota 2 documentary, and the second anniversary of the ValveTime Weekly News Round-Up! Come celebrate with us by winning some games!

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[Dr. House]

I particularily liked "Best Locations - ValveTime Top 5: Episode 5"

because it brings a lot of good memories back. Also it serves as advertisment to show to friends

EDIT: should I have commented on YT?

 

[Omnomnick]

EDIT: should I have commented on YT?

Either works, I'll be looking at both sets of comments when I randomise the results.

 

[bluechirri]

My favorite ValveTime video is the Spotlight examining the images from the development of Arkane's cancelled Episode 4.

Personally, I feel as though the wait for Half Life 3 hasn't been too stressful for me for two reasons - the first being that I was about thirteen or fourteen when Episode 2 came out and didn't play any Half Life games until a few years into the wait, and the second being that I love speculating about unreleased games and projects - digging into a few bits of art and trying to guess at the game they could've made, trawling through old interviews and piecing together a timeline based on developer statements... It's lots of fun and incredibly fascinating to me, especially since I feel video games are a unique medium in this sort of sense, where it's possible to find hints and leaks and images from cancelled or currently-unreleased projects and examine them to your heart's content. And in that sense, this video is a lot of fun to watch - the narrator takes a handful of images leaked from a long-dead game and manages to extrapolate which models the player might have interacted with, where the game might have been set, the possible relevance of a tiny faded logo in the corner of two separate models...

Episode 4 is never coming out, but this video does a great job at using the scant information we have to paint a blurry picture of what it might have been like, and the best part is that it inspires me to continue where it leaves off and ask my own questions - what the "absorption" meter might have meant, why there are headcrab-free zombies, how content from Episode 4 might have found its way into L4D or L4D2. Anything that pushes me to speculate about an unreleased or cancelled game I might have played is something that I'll enjoy reading or watching, and this video is a great example of that!

 

[superdead]

i love the weekly news just because its so easy to get all the news all togather even though im reading the site like 2 times a day

 

[Hamdoud4ussuf]

I liked a lot of episodes mostly enjoyed the top 5 series ,but the one I remember is that when you go back to revenholm

 

[Marko Vukovic]

I prefer Reviews!