Weekly Steam Update (13/10/06)

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It's that time of the week again. Though, most of today's news from Valve has already been covered and reported on (Activision and City Life announcements, along with Counter-Strike: Source DWP beta), you may have not seen the news broadcast performed by Alyx and Eli Vance, main characters in Half-Life 2, rigged by individuals from the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University. From Valve:

Something that caught our eye recently is a project by some students at Northwestern University using the Source engine to automatically create a three minute news broadcast, called News at Sevenhttp://infolab.northwestern.edu/project.asp?id=40#projects/40---projects. Without any human intervention, their system automatically gathers all of the relevant data for the broadcast and creates a short newscast anchored by Half-Life 2 characters. Check out the ABC news story about the system, or watch Alyx and Eli deliver a newscasthttp://www.cs.northwestern.edu/~ndn651/NewsAtSeven.wmv.

To see the entire Steam news yourself, direct your browser here, or simply restart your Steam client to view the flashy pop-up.

 

[Vegeta897]

Sounds really interesting, downloading.

lol, this is ****ing awesome

 

[Asuka]

Love the steam news!

 

[Vegeta897]

So, we can't get this News At Seven thing yet?
/me waits

 

[lefty]

hi

 

[CyberPitz]

hi

wtf is up with the lame post + odd sig?

 

[righty]

hi

;(

 

[ZOnline]

I have to fart.

 

[Steel.Inferno]

Voice synth is of course a little off, but other than that a very promising project, and something I would probably use...

 

[UseAbuse]

At this rate, Valve just might buy EA

 

[Asuka]

At this rate, Valve just might buy EA

Seriously..

 

[okidoki]

That was oddly amazing. Eli is the worst correspondent ever.

(That was Israel, not Sudan. Geography ftw)

I have to fart.

Excuse me just a second folks...

 

[Jintor]

I have to fart.

Go, and NEVER RETURN!

 

[The Monkey]

It was hilarious, but not very informative.

 

[Aprime]

I beg to differ, it was neither.

 

[AJ Rimmer]

Hey that was pretty cool, especially if what it said about it being automatically generated was true. They should fix the framerate drop when all them citizens is walking by though, it was a bit distracting.

 

[MorganFreeman911]

That was awesomely awesome. I hope it replaces biased newspeople.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

I was really dissapointed they could have made that a lot better a mean Alyx doesn't even moves she just stands there it was really boring.

 

[Smigit]

That was awesomely awesome. I hope it replaces biased newspeople.

Well its not like the narrators are going away.

 

[Jintor]

I liked it, because it reinvigors me to map my school in Hammer.