Borderlands 2 – Out Now!! Except if you live in most places
Sigh. Sigh sigh sigh.
Valve Gives Ten New Games The Greenlight, Includes Black Mesa And Towns
Valve have announced the first batch of games to be launched on Steam via their new Greenlight service. These ten titles (including Black Mesa and Towns) have picked up strong support from the community and will be available on Steam in the coming months.
Greenlight Watch list – Help Get ‘Black Mesa’ Onto Steam
Black Mesa, for those who are unaware, is a fan made third party mod that aims to overhaul Valve’s original Half Life game. The 40 man development team say they wish to “create a more engrossing in-game world with more varied, complex environments and more challenging, realistic gameplay”. But Black Mesa is not just a mod for Half Life it’s a total recreation of the game using Valve’s very own Source engine, which makes it even more of an accomplishment…
Major Changes to Steam’s Greenlight Service
Since its release last Thursday, Steam’s Greenlight service has seen over 700 submissions to its database of potential Steam games. Whilst many indie developers have been quick to praise Valve’s new user-driven service, there have been some concerns over quality control. For every potentially interesting indie game there were dozens of crudely made, unfinished projects, joke entries and requests for AAA games unlikely to ever be added to Steam’s catalogue. Last night, Valve rolled out an update to the service, making…
Scout vs Witch – A Source Filmmaker Highlight
Valve’s Source Filmmaker is one hell of a powerful tool, and some really great short films are being released by the community. One of the best I have seen is the one shown above, Scout vs Witch which tells the story of Team Fortress 2’s Scout coming into contact with Left 4 Dead’s Witch down a dark alley. It was created by nailbiter and is well worth a watch, both for the mini-story and to see what people are able to create with the Filmmaker.
Greenlight Gets The Green Light
It is time. Time for eager indie developers worldwide to clamber over each-other and vow for your attention and praise. Valve’s community voting service, Greenlight has been launched.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – The Verdict
Global Offensive is the third retail release of Counter-Strike (fourth if you count Condition Zero), and is quite an impressive title. The basics are the same as ever, T’s vs. CT’s in a never ending battle over hostages and bombs.
Global Offensive is GO GO GO!
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive officially left beta an hour or so ago on Steam after a lengthy beta period and it will be coming to PSN and Xbox Live tonight and tomorrow morning. Valve have released a chunk of data from the beta in a handy infographic which you can see after the break. It reveals some unsurprising data such as the two Dust maps proving to be extremely popular, and some surprising with the Arms Race and Demolition modes making up over 20% of rounds played during the beta. Valve are still working towards the release of the Map Workshop, and of course, the Zombie Mod. We will have a review with you as soon as we can.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Due August 21
Amidst all the hubbub of E3, Valve have announced that Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be released on the 21st of August on Steam, XBLA and PSN for a target price of $15. Now feel free to get back to the rest of the E3 goodness.
Steam Workshop To Expand Further With Civ5
Civilization V is going to be the next addition to the ever growing Steam Workshop when the Gods & Kings expansion drops later this month. Civilization V was released with an in-game mod database, but as detailed on this 2K Games blog they are going one step further with the use of the Workshop which will work with both the base game and the expansion. This announcement comes in the wake of Toki Tori 2 revealing it will use the Workshop, and of course the opening of the DOTA 2 Workshop.
Valve have clearly hit on an exciting market with the Workshop, and I wouldn’t be surprised to see many other titles make use of the service further down the line. ARMA 3 springs to mind as a game that would work perfectly with Valve’s latest toy. What games do you want to see make use of the Workshop?