EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: valvesoftware
Formally announced in mid-August, Valve Software’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is the latest and upcoming version of the developer’s tactical team-based online shooter, Counter-Strike, and will include support for leaderboards and matchmaking, enhanced online features, as well as new weapons, maps and characters.
Counter-Strike: GO will also include modes new to Counter-Strike, it’s been revealed.
‘Tis the season to be jolly, tralalalala, la la la laaaa.
Well, no, not quite. Ahem. It’s just Summer. Er. Well, summer in the Northern hemisphere, that is, and when it’s summer, there’s sales. Good sales. On games. Lots of games. Good games.
Check them out and see for yourself - you can score yourself some really great bargains!
Valve Software has revealed that as part of its extensive update process to the company’s ultra-popular online multiplayer game, Team Fortress 2 on PC is now completely free-to-play and will from now on be supported by the sale of virtual items via microtransactions.
We may have glanced a glimpse at an initial list of exhibitors set to showcase their games and wares at this year’s gamescom event, but now a larger and more extensive round-up of developers, publishers and technology companies has emerged.
While this list is but a quarter of the full line-up of exhibitors that will appear at the world’s largest games convention (once again taking place in Cologne, Germany), we can still pick through it and see which of our favourite companies have signed up so far.
Valve Software has once again made the list, which will be fantastic for gamescom 2011 attendees (especially after the studio was a no-show at E3 2011), while Bethesda Softworks and EA are also present and accounted for.
There are new (and big) additions to the list, too:
One of the most anticipated reveals of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), if not the most anticipated reveal, would have to be official news on something related to Valve Software’s Half-Life franchise.
An announcement of the third entry to the series? News on Half-Life 2: Episode 3, perchance?
If this was the kind of information you were looking forward to at E3 2011 early next month, you’re going to be bitterly disappointed.
From an email being sent out to games press regarding meeting appointments with Valve, written by studio bigwig Doug Lombardi:
Valve’s Steam distribution platform has always been a problem for PC users. The ease of buying games coupled with the huge discounts during sales (especially during the Christmas Holidays) has caused me to spend more money than I probably should have.
And things are about to get a lot worse. And better.
It is not often that I get to play a game from start to end more than once. It is therefore even more unlikely that I get to do that in a matter of a few short days. But in the case of Portal 2 I did just that. I even squeezed in a full play through of the original just for kicks. Needless to say, Portal 2 is worth all the time and effort spent on it!
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Portal 2.
Following on from the incredible launch of Portal 2 only two weeks ago, Valve Software has announced that the first set of downloadable content for everybody’s favourite portal-imbued first-person puzzle game is currently in development, and will add new content and features this ‘Summer’ – for free!
In a post on the official PlayStation Blog, Valve Software’s Doug Lombardi has revealed some enticing new details on the special features we can expect from the PlayStation 3 version of Portal 2, including full support for functionality found in Steam.
Steam is of course Valve’s digital distribution service through which the company sells games and delivers new content and patches to existing games
It’s also a network used for online game play, Steam achievements, online chat, social connections, online game saves and the storing of game preferences for use over multiple devices.
For the past few weeks leading up to the release of Portal 2, ol’ Cave Johnson over at Aperture Science labs has been schilling all kinds of new technologies to the company’s investors, trying to get them to pay up for new research and products to use for testing, and to push out to the public.
What’s the latest invention seeking investor cash? Something called ‘Long Fall Boots.’
If you’ll remember, the original Portal included enemy turrets that were so cute and patient, it was a little heart wrenching every time you were forced to knock one over using your Portal ability and leave them lying helplessly on the floor as they uttered phrases like “I don’t mind” and “I don’t blame you.”
It was a necessary evil, though: If you didn’t ‘take care’ of them, they would cut you down with streams of bullets. It’s a love/hate relationship, for sure.
If this latest trailer for Valve’s next first-person puzzler is anything to go by, Portal 2’s turrets will be just as sweet and blasé about your actions as the first game, as Aperture Science invites the public at large to invest in a Turret to protect their themselves, and their family. Surely, nothing can go wrong:
Portal 2 from Valve Software is due for release on April 21st in stores and via the developer’s digital distribution service Steam, so we don’t have all that much longer to wait before we’re inserted back into the science labs of Aperture… only not anything like what we remember, now set many, many years after the events of the original Portal.
The latest set of downloadable content (DLC) for Left 4 Dead 2 has recently been unleashed upon unwitting zombie hunters running around Xbox LIVE, but this time there’s a twist – this content is also available for the original Left 4 Dead.
If you’re looking to freshen up your Left 4 Dead 1 or 2 experience, then this DLC, entitled The Sacrifice, is definitely what you’re looking for, and is priced at 560 MS Points.
But before you go, you’ll definitely want to watch this amazingly epic debut trailer for the new content. It is, in a word, chilling:
Valve Software recently revealed that the next piece of downloadable content (DLC) for its pair of cooperative zombie shooters, Left 4 Dead 1 and 2, will become available early next month (and early next week) for both Xbox 360 and PC players.
Entitled ‘The Sacrifice,’ this DLC is a prequel to the events that occur in Left 4 Dead 2’s DLC, The Passing, and will this time allow you to play as the survivors from the original Left 4 Dead.
Is this a new tactic to discover release dates and unannounced information for upcoming games? Or maybe a devious plan on the part of game companies that wish to uncover future strategies of their competitors?
In any event, it makes for two minutes of entertaining video, as Peter Molyneux’s son, Lucas, asks Valve Software where Half-Life 3 is, while complimenting the developer on Portal and the upcoming Portal 2.
Peter Molyneux himself makes a few cheeky appearances to shill for the release of Fable 3.
Highly amusing stuff! Watch below:
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