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  • This Fall Sounds Like a Bloody Good Time for a Follow-Up to The Ship

    This Fall Sounds Like a Bloody Good Time for a Follow-Up to The Ship

    Outerlight, Scottish development studio behind 2007′s unique multiplayer shooter The Ship, is back at it again with Bloody Good Time, another whacked-out multiplayer FPS coming this fall to PC via Steam and Xbox 360 via XBLA, courtesy of Ubisoft. Like The Ship, Bloody Good Time...

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  • Portal 2′s E3 Demo in Seven Parts

    Portal 2′s E3 Demo in Seven Parts

    Excursion Funnels, Faith Plates, Pneumatic Diversity Vents, Thermal Discouragement Beams, Propulsion and Repulsion gels. These are the new tools you’ll have at your disposal to overcome Portal 2‘s tricky puzzles, which, astonishingly, put the first game’s puzzles to shame in terms of complexity and innovation....

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  • [E3 2010] Portal 2 Comes to PS3 With Steamworks

    [E3 2010] Portal 2 Comes to PS3 With Steamworks

    The main shocker of the Sony E3 press conference today was the revelation of a PS3 version for Portal 2, which was previously only said to be in development for Mac, PC and Xbox 360. It came as such a surprise because Valve’s president and...

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  • Portal 2 Warps From Holiday 2010 to 2011

    Portal 2 Warps From Holiday 2010 to 2011

    Well, so much for a happy holiday season playing Portal 2. Valve issued a brief press release today announcing a delay for the hotly-anticipated sequel, and sadly Portal 2 will no longer be ready for public consumption this year. A new schedule hasn’t been narrowed...

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  • Steam Brings L4D2, TF2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and Half-Life to Mac Next Month

    Steam Brings L4D2, TF2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and Half-Life to Mac Next Month

    The worst kept secret of the gaming world over the past week or so has been made official, with Valve today confirming plans to bring its vaunted digital download service Steam and its Source gaming engine to the Mac platform. Steam is set to launch...

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  • Portal Returns This Holiday Season

    Portal Returns This Holiday Season

    We’ve known for nearly two years now that development on a sequel to Valve’s surprise-hit first-person puzzle game Portal was in progress (and the mysterious Steam update earlier this week was another tip-off), but today it’s been made official. Portal 2 is real, and it’s...

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  • Steam Holiday Sale is a Go!

    Steam Holiday Sale is a Go!

    Steam’s Early Holiday Sale at the end of November offered some great daily deals, but it was nothing compared to the full-on Steam Holiday Sale, running now through January 3rd. Yep, Valve kicked off its Steam sale early this year to help out last-minute shoppers...

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  • Review: Left 4 Dead 2

    Review: Left 4 Dead 2

    After the protests are over, and the boycotts are all done, what are we left with? A game – that is all Left 4 Dead 2 is, a game. That game is Left 4 Dead 2, the sequel to the mega-hit zombie crunchin’ co-op from...

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  • [E3 2009] Left 4 Dead 2 Coming to PC, Xbox 360 Nov. 17th

    [E3 2009] Left 4 Dead 2 Coming to PC, Xbox 360 Nov. 17th

    As first revealed during the Microsoft E3 press conference earlier today, Valve has announced Left 4 Dead 2 for PC and Xbox 360. The sequel to last year’s co-op zombie hunting thriller will be out on November 17th with more content right off the bat...

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  • Second Left 4 Dead TV Spot Drops

    Second Left 4 Dead TV Spot Drops

    Call up your friends and get ready to go to war with the undead, the zombie apocalypse begins tomorrow with the release of Left 4 Dead on PC and Xbox 360.

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