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21 Aug 2009
Balance is a crucial thing for Valve when it comes to Team Fortress. Get a map wrong and there’ll be emails, petitions…hell to pay. Thankfully, most maps get it right! Here’s how they’re made!
Valve have released a couple of videos showing the evolution of a Team Fortress 2 map (Viaduct), from planning to completion, as the team tinkers with not just the look of the map, but the layout and design as well.
The clips are accompanied by an interesting run-down courtesy of Valve’s Corey Peters, which basically boils down to: we do a lot more work getting these maps right than any of you have probably ever realised.
This point ain’t gonna cap itself! [Team Fortress 2]
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22 Jul 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; Left 4 Dead 2 is playable on the showroom floor of Comic-Con, and people are playing it. People are then filming other people playing it, with special attention paid to the new stuff. Boy, those melee weapons look messy.
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9 Jun 2009window.google_analytics_uacct = “UA-2281360-3″; What’s new in Left 4 Dead 2? This collection of direct feed gameplay snippets from Valve’s quick sequel shows off the highlights: melee weapons, incendiary bullets, new Special Infected, zombie killin’ action set during day time and… tractors! Yes, this is the South, so you’ll come across a John Deere or two [...]
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2 Jun 2009Yes, Left 4 Dead 2‘s release is shockingly close to the release of the original Left 4 Dead. And yes, Left 4 Dead 2 plays very similarly to the original Left 4 Dead. But there’s a reason for both of those things. Left 4 Dead 2 is arriving almost a year to the day after [...]
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1 Jun 2009Just announced at Microsoft’s E3 conference as an Xbox 360 console exclusive, Left 4 Dead 2, a new chapter of the game that takes the struggle against the horde to the southern bayou, and will focus more strongly on melee weapons — chainsaws, axes, frying pans, and baseball bats — on top of its updated [...]
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19 May 2009When TF2′s Scout received his update, the ad on the game’s blog was done in the style of an old-school mail-away. And you know, some people actually responded. What’s more, Valve responded back. Yes, people stupid/smart enough to print out the coupon and send it in have been getting real letters in the mail. Real [...]
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18 May 2009Just for those that hadn’t seen: over the weekend, Valve released its official SDK/authoring tools to “create your own campaign maps, character skins, 3D models, sound effects, and music” for ever-green fave Left 4 Dead, which I mention here because if someone could make us the perfect 70s suburban shopping mall, I would be eternally [...]
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18 May 2009Inside ORRANGE™’s Combine facility, part of an ongoing Lego Half Life series, via benisadork.
Previously:A fresh look at Black Mesa's Half-Life remake – Offworld
Hollywood handsome: live action Half Life short 'Escape From City …
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