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Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source to be supported after Global Offensive release

Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source to be supported after Global Offensive release

It is interesting to think that when Counter-Strike: Global offensive is released, there will be three games remaining active in the Counter-Strike series. With 1.6 and Source still regularly appearing at the top of the play lists on Steam stats, I thought it was important to ask Valve’s Chet Faliszek what would happen with the older titles when Global Offensive is released. He told me on the Eurogamer Expo showfloor that “We will keep supporting 1.6 with exploit fixes and…

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The Egoist – Ruining Our Online Games

The Egoist – Ruining Our Online Games

There is a player style in many an online shooter which I have started to refer to as the ‘egoist’, these are the people who are, and have been for a while, bringing down the quality of online gaming. In particular, I reference first person shooters. I first saw this phrase appear in a game of Battlefield 2. When a player connected to the server, there was an automatic server side script which analysed that persons’ play statistics and came…

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The Generosity of Valve

The Generosity of Valve

I’ve been debating what to talk about in my latest blog, I thought I might just talk about some of the games I have been playing, but something else came to mind. The generosity of Valve.