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Valve ARG suggests GlaDOS is still alive

Man I love Valve. I mean besides creating one of the best online ecosystems available to gamers in Steam, offering up arguably the best value for gaming maybe ever in Orange Box, and gracing the world with one of, if not the, most unique, entertaining, and challenging puzzle games ever in Portal, they just seem like really, really fun dudes. Take a look at last year’s promo material for the launch of Steam on OSX, particularly the Half Life 2 release. It’s that kind of tongue-in-cheek satirical slant Valve seems…

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Left 4 Dead’s Sacrifice not written in stone

When Valve released “The Passing” DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, it was the first time that we got to see the cast of the original L4D in the new game.  We also saw the ultimate fate of one of the original characters, but I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t seen it yet. The newest DLC for the franchise is called “The Sacrifice”, and will finally fill in that bridge (no pun) between the two, as it will tell the story leading up to “The Passing” from the…

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Team Fortress 2 now on OS X, FREE this weekend

After Valve’s successful launch of Steam for Mac, this weekend sees the release one of the most anticipated Valve Mac games, Team Fortress 2, where the eternal debate of Mac vs. PC can finally be settled on the digital battlefield (Steam Play supports cross-platform play). The day Ian Fleming invented penicillin. The day scientists invented the moon landing. The day Sir Isaac Newton distracted the policemen investigating his wife’s murder by discovering gravity. All of these historic moments have two things in common. They helped steer the course of human…

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Steam For Mac – maybe May 12th

Just a couple of days after speculating that the Mac version of Steam looks like it’s going to miss the initial April launch comes word that this is indeed the case, and will be available May 12th.  For Mac users who haven’t yet delved into the world of Steam on a PC, or aren’t too familiar with Valve release schedules, don’t sweat it. It’s just another case of ‘Valve Time‘, where dates are never as they seem.

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Steam For Mac private beta suggests May release date

Valve Software announced last month that their Steam gaming platform would be available for Mac by the end of April, or possibly May.  Although it hasn’t hit wide release yet, it has been in a closed beta for a few weeks.  There’s an exhaustive thread running on the Steam forums, which suggests that a May launch day is likely.  Valve’s official word is still “coming soon”. Steam itself will require OS X 10.5 or higher, while Valve Source games will required Leopard, or Snow Leopard to run.  You can also…

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Portal 2 becomes a reality, and OSX support is not a lie.

In 2008, on Doug’s suggestion, I picked up a copy of the year-old Orange Box for the 360 on a whim. (Said whim was spurred on by Doug’s claim that if I didn’t buy it, there was something seriously wrong with me.) Turns out, he was right, as Orange Box was my first foray into the world of Valve, and from there, Steam, thanks to the brilliant PC version of Left For Dead. Orange Box spends very little time on my shelf, as I quickly found myself addicted to HL2…

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Left 4 Dead 2 is out, and is all that and more

Valve unlocked Left for Dead 2 at midnight, on November 17th, for those who pre-ordered, and pre-loaded the game. I somehow forgot this fact, despite having done the former and latter, so the first thing I did when I got home tonight was play the game. Though I have only had time to play a for few hours, it’s defintely going to be my new gaming addiction. As said, in our review of the demo, L4D 2 takes all that you loved from the first game (you did buy the…

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