Tag: Half-Life 2
Starting next week, you can expect your Steam client to look and operate a little different. Here are the new features those of you still playing Counter-Strike and Half-Life 2 should be looking forward to.
Guest Passes
Guest Passes allow owners of certain Steam games (purchased either via Steam or at retail) to let their friends play games for free, for a limited time trial. The first game to take advantage of this new feature will be Day of Defeat: Source. Beginning the week of January 8th, owners of DoD:S will each receive a guest pass...
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Middleware solutions are becoming increasingly common as developers look to mitigate the costs of next-gen game creation. Epic Games' Unreal engine (Gears of War, Turok) and Emergent's Gamebryo Element (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion) are a pair of popular engines currently being licensed out for use on the Xbox 360, but it looks like they're in for some new competition on the platform.
Today Valve Software announced that the Xbox 360 version of its Source engine is being offered to developers. The Source engine debuted with Valve's own...
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Posted by
Kevom 5 years 10 months ago
Gamers divided on whether Valve's taken the right approach with mixing up the visuals for Team Fortress 2, ditching the realistic military style last seen, should understand what all the positive fuss is about when they check out the short trailer they've packaged for the online multiplayer shooter.
The Pixar comparisons to The Incredibles are spot-on; the animation and stylization is like nothing else the genre's seen before.
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