I don’t have much to say about Portal 2 for two reasons. First, posting spoilers for the game just feels like a bad idea. Letting you in on some of the gags or the overall trajectory of the plot would be criminal, so much so that even the requisite spoiler warning doesn’t feel like enough protection.
Read MoreMan 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…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MorePortal 2, the oft-teased and well-ARGed sequel to the sleeper hit from Valve, finally got a real teaser trailer. It’s not much on details, but does feature the ever wry GladOS giving the player a welcome back greeting in her own special way. It did make it’s premiere at the Sony keynote, suggesting that maybe there’s a bit of a thaw between Gabe Newell and the PS3… we’ll be waiting for some time though, as Portal 2 is looking at a 2011 ship date.
Read MoreAfter 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…
Read MoreValve has one upped themselves again, with the launch of Half Life 2 for Mac, via Steam of course. To help kick it off, they’ve taken the classic Apple “1984” commercial and given it the Half Life spin, with Alyx Vance taking on role of the TV smashing runner.
Read MoreSteam for the Mac has been released, and many of us wondered why Valve is giving away Portal for Free until May 24th. The video above makes it all clear. Gamers should thank Aperture Laboratories by buying their next home testing initiative, Portal 2, this fall.
Read MoreIt looks like Steam for Mac WILL start rolling out tomorrow, maybe even the real tomorrow, not the Valve Time equivalent, (generally meaning later this week). With tomorrow’s launch will be the Mac version of Portal, plus the top-down dungeon crawler Torchlight, from Runic Games. It’s also interesting to note that although Team Fortress 2 is listed in the Steam for Mac beta software, and that it’s the graphic Valve has put in an iMac (above), it’s not listed in the initial batch of games to be released. We’ll just…
Read MoreJust 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.
Read MoreValve 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…
Read MoreAfter last week’s release of Left 4 Dead 2’s “The Passing”, a couple of us here at rgb have had a chance to run through it and give our impressions. If you haven’t heard of it yet, “The Passing” is a new campaign for L4D2 that not only adds a missing episode between “Dead Center” and “Dark Carnival”. It’s free for PC players and 560 points on Xbox Live. “The Passing” is a little shorter than most campaigns, with 3 chapters instead of the normal 5, and an average playthrough…
Read MoreThe new chapter for Left 4 Dead 2, The Passing, is being released today on the 360 and PC. Finally the cast of Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 get to meet, and in the trailer above Francis and Rochelle get their hate on together. The chapter also introduces the weekly Mutations events, as detailed by Valve on their L4D blog: The Passing introduces a series of weekly game mode events dubbed “Mutations.” These are week-long runs of new gameplay modes that range from “Realism Versus” to “Chainsaw Massacre”. Each…
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