The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Steam/Source: TF2 Beta on Mon 9/17 for Orange Box Pre-Orders
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Breaking News
08/07 Dawn of War: released on Steam.
08/06 Steam Community Open Beta released. See features below.
08/03 iD releases entire back catalog of games on Steam (with the exception of Quake IV).
07/24 Civilization IV - Beyond the Sword released on Steam.
07/17 THQ titles released on Steam, including Company of Heroes, Full Spectrum Warrior and Titan Quest. STALKER, Supreme Commander and WH40k coming soon.
07/07 Penny Arcade available through Steam. Speculation ensues about distribution of the PA game.
06/18 Geometry Wars is $2.50 until Friday. After that it costs $4.
06/15 Episode 2 release date set to October 9th.
Release Dates
2007
Left 4 Dead (Summer, Winter for XBox360)
HL2E2 (Portal, TF2) (October 9th)
2008
Postal 3 (Q1)
Price reductions and current sales:
Spoiler'd for Huge!
Updated August 8th, 2007
Steam
Upgrades
Steam Community was released as an open beta on August 6th, 2007. Not only can you chat to your Steam friends within Source games, you can chat to them on any game, whether you bought it on Steam or not (voice chat as well as text). Also included is the ability to add non-Steam games to your Steam list as a shortcut.
Screenshots of Steam Community in-game:
Screenshot of adding new games to Steam list:
The Guest Pass system has been released! How it works is people who buy a game can send their friends guest passes that would allow them to try out the game for "1-5 days", depending on the game. A closed beta has already started on Steam. It is currently only for Day of Defeat Source. More information can be found at this steam support page.
Also out January 8th are a new visual look (with 5 color schemes!), favorites for games as well as servers, and background updates.
MOICHENDIZE!!
New! Head-Crab hats!!!! Also, Vortigaunt with christmas hat! The old headcrab was just a plush. The new one is a hat!!!
The vortigaunt is $30, the headcrab plushie is $25, but the headcrab hat is $30. I'm pretty sure it's the most awesome thing ever.
Also available is a new poster with DOG ripping a strider up, and a mess of other Valve MOICHENDIZE!
http://store.valvesoftware.com/
What’s new with Source?
Technology
Valve has started a beta program for testing out new source engine updates. (Mostly to ensure they don't break mod compatibility) They're currently inbetween public tests at the moment.
Valve is currently planning new tech for Episode 2, such as a new particle system, better foliage, a new "cinematic physics" system made by a member of WETA digital and a much needed upgrade to the lighting system. Not to be outdone, apparently, Valve has implemented a portal system ALA Prey. Should be interesting to see how the two compare.
Valve has released some tech demos to hardware review sites showing off their new multi-core implementation for the Source Engine, which will make it's appearance in Episode 2. Click here for the bit-tech article.
In non-Valve related news, Natural Selection 2 might include procedurally generated bacteria which slowly spreads over maps. Click here for the beauty.
Licenses
Arkane Studios - The Crossing, some sort of weird cross between multiplayer and singleplayer.
Running With Scissors - Postal 3 on the Source Engine in 2008.
Laid Back Gaming (Founded by Michael McCarthy, a former member of the art team at Troika) - a turn-based action-RPG with a 3/4th isometric perspective.
Turtle Rock Studios (Makers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and many, many Counter-Strike: Source maps) - an FPS called "Left 4 Dead", about which very little is known. We do know that it will be a four-player coop FPS involving killing zombies, who sometimes might be player-controlled.
Kuma-Soft - Kuma\War, their episodic, third person tactical games. (More info can be found at Kuma\War’s Wikipedia entry.)
Mods
Counter-Strike: Source
The most recent update was on November 1st, which implemented the final version of the new CS economy. The active economy of supply and demand will help even out the prices between items that are not bought very often, and ones that are bought almost every time. The prices have been reset many times due to outrageous prices, so many servers have disabled these prices. More information on the system can be found at http://www.steampowered.com/stats/csmarket/
Day of Defeat: Source
The most recent patch for DoD:S (Released June 28th) included two new maps (Jagd and Colmar) of a new detonation game-type; as well as cinematic effects for spectators and a slew of bug-fixes. Videos of the two new maps, done in WW2 propaganda style, can be downloaded from Steam's media area.
08/07 Dawn of War: released on Steam.
08/06 Steam Community Open Beta released. See features below.
08/03 iD releases entire back catalog of games on Steam (with the exception of Quake IV).
07/24 Civilization IV - Beyond the Sword released on Steam.
07/17 THQ titles released on Steam, including Company of Heroes, Full Spectrum Warrior and Titan Quest. STALKER, Supreme Commander and WH40k coming soon.
07/07 Penny Arcade available through Steam. Speculation ensues about distribution of the PA game.
06/18 Geometry Wars is $2.50 until Friday. After that it costs $4.
06/15 Episode 2 release date set to October 9th.
Release Dates
2007
Left 4 Dead (Summer, Winter for XBox360)
HL2E2 (Portal, TF2) (October 9th)
2008
Postal 3 (Q1)
Price reductions and current sales:
Spoiler'd for Huge!
Updated August 8th, 2007
Discounts
Current Offers
Painkiller Gold - $9.95, reg $19.95 (50%) Ends August 13
Half-Life 2 - $19.95, reg $29.95 (30%) Ends -
Half-Life 2: Episode One - $9.95, reg $19.95 (50%) Ends -
New Releases
Dawn of War: Gold* - $17.95, reg $19.95
Dawn of War: Dark Crusade* - $26.95, reg $29.95
Dawn of War: Platinum* - $35.95, reg $39.95
* 10% discount ends August 13 (THQ)
Genesis Rising - $35.95, reg $39.95 (10%) Ends August 12
DOOM 3 Pack* - $26.95, reg $29.95
DOOM Complete Pack* - $35.95, reg $39.95
QUAKE III Pack* - $17.95, reg $19.95
QUAKE Collection* - $26.95, reg $29.95
Wolf Pack* - $17.95, reg $19.95
id Super Pack* - $62.95, reg $69.95
Half-Life 2 + One Pack - $24.95, reg $49.90 (50%) Ends -
* 10% discount ends August 9 (id)
Pre-purchase
N/A
Price Reductions
Newest to oldest
Day of Defeat: Source - $9.95, was $19.95
Medieval II: Total War - $39.95, was $49.95
Hitman: Blood Money - $19.95, was $29.95 Second price cut ($39.95)
Hitman: Codename 47 - $9.95, was $19.95
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin - $9.95, was $19.95
Hitman Collection - $29.95, was $49.95 Second price cut ($59.95)
Shadowgrounds - $14.95, was $19.95
Making History: The Calm & The Storm - $29.95, was $39.95
TrackMania United - $39.95, was $49.95 (EU only)
Vegas: Make It Big - $9.95, was $19.95
Dark Messiah Might and Magic[2] - $19.95, was $39.95 Second price cut ($49.95)
Advent Rising - $14.95, was $19.95
Ghost Master - $4.95, was $9.95
Deus Ex: Invisible War - $14.95, was $19.95
Deus Ex Collection - $19.95, was $24.95
Eidos Action Gang - $44.95, was $59.95
Just Cause - $29.95, was $39.95
Project: Snowblind - $9.95, was $19.95
Rogue Trooper - $19.95, was $29.95
Tomb Raider: Legend - $19.95, was $29.95
The Ship - $14.95, was $19.95
Civilization IV + Warlords Pack - $54.95, was $79.90
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey - $19.95, was $29.95 Second price cut ($39.95)
The Longest Journey Pack - $24.95, was $34.95
RACE - The WTCC Game - $19.95, was $29.95 Second price cut ($39.95)
Birth of America - $19.95, was $29.95 Second price cut ($39.95)
Space Empires V - $19.95, was $29.95 Second price cut ($39.95)
Iron Warriors: T72-Tank Command - $14.95, was $19.95 Second price cut ($24.95)
Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines - $9.95, was $19.95
Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty - $9.95, was $19.95
Commandos 2: Men of Courage - $9.95, was $19.95
Commandos 3: Destination Berlin - $14.95, was $19.95
Commandos Complete Pack - $49.95, was $59.95
Heroes of Annihilated Empires - $19.95, was $39.95
City Life: Deluxe - $29.95, was $39.95
FlatOut 2 - $19.95, was $24.95
Xpand Rally - $9.95, was $19.95
GTI Racing - $9.95, was $19.95
Xpand Rally + GTI Racing Pack - $14.95, was $29.95
Gumboy - Crazy Adventures - $9.95, was $14.95
Call of Duty 2 - $29.95, was $39.95
Call of Duty War Chest - $39.95, was $49.95
Prey[1] - $19.95, was $49.95
Civilization IV[1] - $39.95, was $49.95
X2: The Threat - $9.95, was $14.95
SiN Episodes: Emergence - $14.95, was $19.95
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 - $19.95, was $24.95
Earth 2160 - $9.95, was $19.95
Dangerous Waters - $19.95, was $39.95
Space Empires IV Deluxe - $9.95, was $19.95
Bejeweled Deluxe - $9.95, was $19.95
Packages
Mixed: Indie
Best of the Underground - $19.95 - Save $18.85
Includes: Eets, Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved, Gumboy - Crazy Adventures, and Rag Doll Kung Fu
2K Games - Game Catalog
Railroad Tycoon Collection - $29.95 - Save $4.90
Includes: Railroad Tycoon 3, Railroad Tycoon II Platinum, and Sid Meier's Railroads!
Civilization IV + Beyond the Sword* - $49.95 - Save $19.95
Includes: Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Civilization IV + Warlords - $54.95 - Save $14.95
Includes: Sid Meier's Civilization IV and Civilization IV: Warlords
Civilization IV Complete Pack* - $74.95 - Save $24.90
Includes: Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Civilization IV: Warlords, and Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword
Build and Destroy Pack - $79.95 - Save $59.85
Includes: CivCity: Rome, Shattered Union, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, and Civilization IV: Warlords
* Pricing varies by region.
Activision - Game Catalog
Call of Duty War Chest - $39.95 - Save $29.90
Includes: Call of Duty, Call of Duty: United Offensive, and Call of Duty 2
Egosoft
X2/X3 Pack - $24.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: X2: The Threat and X3: Reunion
Eidos - Game Catalog
Deus Ex Collection - $19.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition and Deus Ex: Invisible War
Hitman Collection - $29.95 - Save $9.90
Includes: Hitman: Blood Money, Hitman: Codename 47, and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
Eidos Action Gang - $44.95 - Save $14.90
Includes: Just Cause, Project: Snowblind, and Rogue Trooper
Commandos Complete Pack - $49.95 - Save $24.80
Includes: Commandos: Behind Enemy Lines, Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty, Commandos: Strike Force, Commandos 2: Men of Courage, and Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Eidos WII Collection - $59.95 - You Save $24.90
Includes: Battlestations: Midway, Commandos: Strike Force, and Commandos 3: Destination Berlin
Empire Interactive - Game Catalog
FlatOut Pack - $24.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: FlatOut and FlatOut 2
Funcom
The Longest Journey Pack - $24.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey and The Longest Journey
id Software - Game Catalog
Heretic + HeXen Collection - $9.95 - Save $9.85 --New
Includes: HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, HeXen II, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders
QUAKE III Pack - $19.95 - Save $19.95 --New, On Sale $17.95
Includes: QUAKE III Arena and QUAKE III: Team Arena
Wolf Pack - $19.95 - Save $9.90 --New, On Sale $17.95
Includes: Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Spear of Destiny, Wolfenstein 3D
DOOM 3 Pack - $29.95 - Save $9.95 --New, On Sale $26.95
Includes: DOOM 3 and DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil
QUAKE Collection - $29.95 - Save $49.65 --New, On Sale $26.95
Includes: QUAKE, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Quake III Arena, QUAKE III: Team Arena
DOOM Complete Pack - $39.95 - Save $39.75 --New, On Sale $35.95
Includes: DOOM 3, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, DOOM II, Final DOOM, Master Levels for Doom II, Ultimate DOOM
id Super Pack - $69.95 - Save $143.95 --New, On Sale $62.95
Includes: Commander Keen, DOOM 3, DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil, DOOM II, Final DOOM, Master Levels for Doom II, Ultimate DOOM, HeXen, HeXen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel, HeXen II, Heretic: Shadow of the Serpent Riders, QUAKE, QUAKE Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon, QUAKE Mission Pack 2: Dissolution of Eternity, QUAKE II, QUAKE II Mission Pack: The Reckoning, QUAKE II Mission Pack: Ground Zero, Quake III Arena, QUAKE III: Team Arena, Spear of Destiny, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Wolfenstein 3D
Introversion
Uplink/Darwinia Pack - $19.95 - Save $9.95
Includes: Darwinia and Uplink
Outerlight
The Ship Complete Pack - $19.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: The Ship and The Ship Single Player
PopCap - Game Catalog
Action Pack - $29.95 - Save $29.90
Includes: Feeding Frenzy 2 Deluxe, Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe
Puzzle Pack - $29.95 - Save $29.90
Includes: Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Chuzzle Deluxe, Dynomite Deluxe
Thinking Pack - $29.95 - Save $29.90
Includes: Bookworm Deluxe, Insaniquarium Deluxe, Typer Shark Deluxe
Puzzle + Action - $39.95 - Save $79.75
Includes: Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Chuzzle Deluxe, Dynomite Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy 2 Deluxe, Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe
Puzzle + Thinking - $39.95 - Save $79.75
Includes: Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Bookworm Deluxe, Chuzzle Deluxe, Dynomite Deluxe, Insaniquarium Deluxe, Typer Shark Deluxe
Thinking + Action - $39.95 - Save $79.75
Includes: Bookworm Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy 2 Deluxe, Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Insaniquarium Deluxe, Typer Shark Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe
PopCap Classic Collection - $89.95 - Save $239.20
Includes: AstroPop Deluxe, Bejeweled Deluxe, Bejeweled 2 Deluxe, Chuzzle Deluxe, BigMoney Deluxe, Bookworm Deluxe, Dynomite Deluxe, Feeding Frenzy 2 Deluxe, Hammer Heads Deluxe, Heavy Weapon Deluxe, Iggle Pop Deluxe, Insaniquarium Deluxe, Pizza Frenzy Deluxe, Rocket Mania Deluxe, Talismania Deluxe, Typer Shark Deluxe, Zuma Deluxe
Strategy First - Game Catalog
Disciples II Gold - $19.95 - Save $19.95
Includes: Disciples II: Galleans Return and Disciples II: Rise of the Elves
Classic Naval Combat Pack - $19.95 - Save $39.90
Includes: 688(I) Hunter-Killer, Fleet Command, and Sub Command
Space Empires Pack - $24.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: Space Empires IV Deluxe and Space Empires V
Complete Naval Combat Pack - $29.95 - Save $49.85
Includes: Dangerous Waters, 688(I) Hunter-Killer, Fleet Command, and Sub Command
Disciples II Gold + Jagged Alliance 2 - $29.95 - Save $29.90
Includes: Disciples II: Rise of the Elves, Disciples II: Galleans Return, and Jagged Alliance 2 Gold
THQ - Game Catalog
Dawn of War - Platinum - $39.95 - Save $4.95 --New, On Sale $35.95
Includes: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade and Dawn of War - Gold Edition
Full Spectrum Warrior Complete - $14.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: Full Spectrum Warrior and Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers
Titan Quest Complete - $29.95 - Save $9.95
Includes: Titan Quest and Titan Quest - Immortal Throne
Techland
Xpand Rally + GTI Racing Pack - $14.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: GTI Racing and Xpand Rally
Telltale Games
Sam & Max Episodes 1-3 - $19.95 - Save $6.90
Includes: Episode 1: Culture Shock, Episode 2: Situation: Comedy, and Episode 3: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball
Sam & Max Episodes 4-6 - $19.95 - Save $6.90
Includes: Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die, Episode 5: Reality 2.0, and Episode 6: Bright Side of the Moon
Valve - Game Catalog
Counter-Strike - $9.95 - Save $9.95
Includes: Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Condition Zero
Half-Life 1 Anthology - $14.95 - Save $24.85
Includes: Half-Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Opposing Force, Team Fortress Classic
Counter-Strike 1 Anthology - $19.95 - Save $29.80
Includes: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Day of Defeat, Deathmatch Classic, Ricochet
Half-Life 2: Episode One - $19.95 - Save $9.95 --On Sale $9.95
Includes: Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Garry's Mod Pack - $24.95 - Save $4.95
Includes: Counter-Strike: Source and Garry's Mod
Source Multiplayer Pack - $29.95 - Save $9.90
Includes: Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
Holiday 2006 Collection - $49.95 - Save $39.80
Includes: Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Source Premier Pack - $59.95 - Save $39.75
Includes: Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
Valve Complete Pack - $79.95 - Save $109.30
Includes: Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat, Day of Defeat: Source, Deathmatch Classic, Half-Life, Half-Life: Blue Shift, Half-Life: Source, Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, Half-Life Deathmatch: Source, Opposing Force, Ricochet, Team Fortress Classic
Now go spoil yourself.
1. Reduced price is only available in North and South America
2. Not available via Steam for some countries in Africa, Asia and Europe
Steam
Upgrades
June 20, 2007 -- This summer Valve will ship a major update to its online gaming platform Steam, introducing an advanced set of community features to more than 13 million gamers around the world.
Beginning in July, Steam users can set up their own personal Steam pages and profiles, create and join groups, schedule games with friends, review who they've played with, see how well everyone played, chat with groups, chat via voice, and more. These new community services and features can be used with all Steam games, which include new releases and classic titles from leading publishers and independent developers.
Free of charge, the new community features will be accessible via the Steam desktop client and via the web.
"Our community has given us great direction on the ways they want to see Steam evolve," said Gabe Newell, co-founder and president of Valve. "Adding these new community features to make it easier to connect with other gamers is something we've wanted to see on Steam for a long time and this latest update is just the start. We've got a long list of items that we're working on to make it easier for gamers to connect and play games on Steam."
This upgrade marks the largest extension to the Steam platform since its first commercial release in March 2004. In its three year history, Steam has defined the next generation online gaming platform delivering hundreds of games to millions of users with services such as Guest Passes, Automatic Updates, Free Weekends, and allowing gamers to access their games from any PC.
Steam Community was released as an open beta on August 6th, 2007. Not only can you chat to your Steam friends within Source games, you can chat to them on any game, whether you bought it on Steam or not (voice chat as well as text). Also included is the ability to add non-Steam games to your Steam list as a shortcut.
Screenshots of Steam Community in-game:
Screenshot of adding new games to Steam list:
The Guest Pass system has been released! How it works is people who buy a game can send their friends guest passes that would allow them to try out the game for "1-5 days", depending on the game. A closed beta has already started on Steam. It is currently only for Day of Defeat Source. More information can be found at this steam support page.
Also out January 8th are a new visual look (with 5 color schemes!), favorites for games as well as servers, and background updates.
MOICHENDIZE!!
New! Head-Crab hats!!!! Also, Vortigaunt with christmas hat! The old headcrab was just a plush. The new one is a hat!!!
The vortigaunt is $30, the headcrab plushie is $25, but the headcrab hat is $30. I'm pretty sure it's the most awesome thing ever.
Also available is a new poster with DOG ripping a strider up, and a mess of other Valve MOICHENDIZE!
http://store.valvesoftware.com/
What’s new with Source?
Technology
Valve has started a beta program for testing out new source engine updates. (Mostly to ensure they don't break mod compatibility) They're currently inbetween public tests at the moment.
Valve is currently planning new tech for Episode 2, such as a new particle system, better foliage, a new "cinematic physics" system made by a member of WETA digital and a much needed upgrade to the lighting system. Not to be outdone, apparently, Valve has implemented a portal system ALA Prey. Should be interesting to see how the two compare.
Valve has released some tech demos to hardware review sites showing off their new multi-core implementation for the Source Engine, which will make it's appearance in Episode 2. Click here for the bit-tech article.
In non-Valve related news, Natural Selection 2 might include procedurally generated bacteria which slowly spreads over maps. Click here for the beauty.
Licenses
Arkane Studios - The Crossing, some sort of weird cross between multiplayer and singleplayer.
Running With Scissors - Postal 3 on the Source Engine in 2008.
Laid Back Gaming (Founded by Michael McCarthy, a former member of the art team at Troika) - a turn-based action-RPG with a 3/4th isometric perspective.
Turtle Rock Studios (Makers of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and many, many Counter-Strike: Source maps) - an FPS called "Left 4 Dead", about which very little is known. We do know that it will be a four-player coop FPS involving killing zombies, who sometimes might be player-controlled.
Kuma-Soft - Kuma\War, their episodic, third person tactical games. (More info can be found at Kuma\War’s Wikipedia entry.)
Mods
Suds wrote:Battle Grounds 2
www.bgmod.comStatus: Released (v0.17)wo different teams battle for the control over the american colonies. The Royal British Army loyal to the crown is trying to maintian it's influence in "New England". Driven by high taxes and the dream of being an independent country the American rebel forces try to push the british troops out of the contintent.
Black Mesa
www.blackmesasource.comStatus: Not releasedBlack Mesa is a Half-Life 2 total conversion remaking VALVe Software's award-winning PC game, Half-Life. Utilizing the Source engine, Black Mesa will reintroduce the player as Doctor Gordon Freeman, along with the original cast of memorable characters and environments seen in Half-Life.
Dystopia
www.dystopia-game.comStatus: Released (Version 1.0)Dystopia is a Half-Life 2 modifcation which places the player into tense combat situations in a high tech world spanned by computer networks. As either Punks or Corp Mercenaries the player will fight through the physical world to gain access, via jack-in terminals, to cyberspace.
Eternal Silence 2
www.eternal-silence.netStatus: Released (Beta 1.1)A massive deep space war has broken out. The United Terran Forces must subdue the Neo Galactic Militia outburst and restore the order of the systems. Your role in Eternal Silence will be within vital strategic battles between two massive capital warships. You will need your wits, your precision, your strength, your endurance, and above all your courage to take on the fierce challenges which await you.
Forsaken
www.forsaken-game.comStatus: Not releasedForsaken is a post-viral urban warfare mod for Half-life 2, where players take on the role of a team member of one of three surviving factions. Players can suit up as the tactical but brutally efficient Governors, the resourceful and stealthy Civilian resistance, or the zealous and carnage driven Religious cult.
Fortress Forever
www.fortress-forever.comStatus: Not releasedFortress Forever is a Team Fortress mod for Half-life 2's Source Engine. Our independent team is creating this mod entirely from scratch.
Fortress Forever should please those who have stuck with or been a part Half-life: TFC over the years while at the same time doing more for new TF players than any prior Fortress attempt.
GoldenEye: Source
www.goldeneyesource.comStatus: Released (Beta 1)GoldenEye: Source is a modification of Half-Life 2, with only one goal in mind; to bring the memories and experiences from the original GoldenEye64 back to life using Source Technology.
Ham and Jam
www.hamandjam.orgStatus: Not releasedHam and Jam is a teamplay orientated, first person WW2 mutliplayer game centred around the British and Commonwealth campaigns from 1939-45.
Insects Infestation
www.insectsinfestation.comStatus: Released (Alpha 1.0)Obviously based on the insects point of view, II will offer its players to choose among three different insect species, Ants, Termites and Alliances. Each of these will have its own set of unique weapons, powers, behaviour and abilities.
Insurgency
www.insmod.netStatus: Released. (Beta v1.1)- modern infantry combat on valve's source engine
- chain of command - commanders control their squad/cell with ease
- morale - morale system to set high value on teamplay
- reinforcement waves - unique reinforcement wave system
- depth of realism -- iron sights, free aim, ricochet, bullet penetration, weapon weights, and more
- no bullsh*t hud - only see what's important, when it's important
- global stats - a simple forum signup keeps track of your stats forever
Iron Grip: The Oppression
www.isotx.comStatus: Released (Beta 1.3)Iron Grip: The Oppression offers a unique gameplay that combines RTS (Real Time Strategy) and FPS (First Person shooter) in a completely new way. We’re focusing on generating an intense cooperative feeling by pitting a group of human players against superior numbers of AI opponents in the first ever real computer game guerilla warfare!
Minerva
www.hylobatidae.org/minervaStatus: Released (2 levels)Minerva is a series of 4 singleplayer levels, completely seperate from the Half-Life 2 storyline.
Nuclear Dawn
www.nuclear-dawn.netStatus: Not releasedNuclear Dawn is a multiplayer modification for Valve’s Source engine that combines visceral and violent First Person Shooter action with fast-paced Real Time Strategy in the aftermath of an apocalyptic war. You can choose the mission or lead the attack as a commander, marshalling resources and deploying weapons and equipment for your team to use.
Pirates, Vikings and Knights II
www.pvkii.comStatus: Released (Beta 1.0)PVKII Is a Halflife 2 Modification based on 3 teams from times past locked in a never-ending battle for wealth, dominance, and power.
Plan of Attack
www.planofattackgame.comStatus: Released (Beta 4)Plan of Attack is all about gameplay. Strategic gameplay. Players are faced with important decisions each round that affect themselves and their team. What objective to attack, planning your defense, acquiring money or experience, bankrupting the enemy team, choosing your skill class, and planning your path to victory.
Resistance and Liberation
www.resistanceandliberation.comStatus: Not releasedThe goal of Resistance and Liberation is to realistically portray the events and actions taken by the 82nd Airborne during their stay in Normandy. Our initial release will follow the regiments through a campaign that mimics that followed by the men themselves.
Zombie Master
www.zombiemaster.orgStatus: Released (Beta 1.0.0)Zombie Master is a multiplayer survival horror FPS/RTS mod for Half-Life 2. A team of FPS-playing humans attempts to complete map-specific objectives while an RTS player controls the zombie horde with only one goal: death to all humans.
Age of Chivalry
www.age-of-chivalry.comStatus: Released (Beta 1)Multiplayer combat set in the Middle Ages with a highly detailed world and unique style of gameplay being developed by our team called “Story Driven Multiplayer.†We will feature a unique first person melee combat system and a wide array of weapons, armor. Terrains of all kinds will be explored in Age of Chivalry including snow covered mountains, rolling hills, deep rich forests and many more. Music and sound will play a huge role in hopes of taking the battles to a new level of movie-like realism and excitement.
Counter-Strike: Source
The most recent update was on November 1st, which implemented the final version of the new CS economy. The active economy of supply and demand will help even out the prices between items that are not bought very often, and ones that are bought almost every time. The prices have been reset many times due to outrageous prices, so many servers have disabled these prices. More information on the system can be found at http://www.steampowered.com/stats/csmarket/
Day of Defeat: Source
The most recent patch for DoD:S (Released June 28th) included two new maps (Jagd and Colmar) of a new detonation game-type; as well as cinematic effects for spectators and a slew of bug-fixes. Videos of the two new maps, done in WW2 propaganda style, can be downloaded from Steam's media area.
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Episode Two is currently slated for a release sometime during the summer of 2007. Dispite Valve's statements Ep2 was started at the same time as Ep1, it sounds like they're still going to have to put even more development time into the game. There's currently a trailer of Episode 2 shown after you beat Episode 1, as well as an extended version available through Steam’s media area. New videos were released as Liepzig in Germany and can be now found on Steam, including a new HD trailer, and several videos of pure gameplay.
Episode 2 will feature new locations ranging from forests to mines to an abandoned missile silo, and will feature large-scale battles and a new, two-seater vehicle. All told, there will apparently be nearly as much ground covered as in Half-Life 2 itself.
On the new content front, a new enemy (The Hunter), seen briefly in Episode 1, will be making Striders a bit more lethal. Now when you try and hide from a Strider to jump out and tag it with some rockets, these man-sized Synths will be communicating with their Strider brethren and trying to flush you out. Luckily, new tools designed to destroy Striders will be made available: the strider buster. A spiky ball gadget that, when shot at a Strider with the gravity gun, attaches to it and drains it of enough energy to blow it to pieces.
New technical advancements to be introduced with the episode; things ranging from better foliage, to an improved particle system, a new "cinematic physics" system made by a former WETA Digital employee (Guys who did all the amazing stuff for the LotR movies) and a moderate overhaul to the shadowing and lighting system. (Making it someplace in-between the original Source engine and a unified lighting system). Also on the table is support for multi-core processors.
To be included with Episode 2 will a first-person puzzle game named Portal, and TEAM FORTRESS 2. Yes, that's right: Quake II mod turned Half-Life mod turned game based on the Half-Life engine that then disappeared is now BACK.
Portal
Portal is a new part of the Half-Life universe that centers around a company called Aperture Laboratories, and the testing of a portal generation machine known as the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. The player (who is currently rumored to be a new female character) is forced to utilize the device to solve a series of ever more difficult puzzles through the Aperture Science Enrichment center.
The game is based upon concepts from Narbacular Drop, a student project made by a team at the Digipen Game University. Upon seeing the design, Gabe Newell hired the students on the spot to develop the concept for the Source Engine.
It is not currently known where exactly Portal takes place in the Half-Life universe, nor who the player character is, exactly. Current statements from Valve indicate that the character will make an appearance in later episodes, but whether it will be in a post or pre portal fashion is unknown.
Valve recently released a Viral Marketing website called Aperture Science.com where you can take an application test of bizarre questions, and view first hand Aperture’s obsession with cake. Just use whatever for the login and ‘portal’ for the password, then type ‘apply’ to get the application.
[realspoiler:bd18f340b7]Or type “THECAKEISALIE” for the real point of the website.[/realspoiler:bd18f340b7]
Don’t worry about the big-ass number they give you; it’ll randomly change so there’s no way you can actually type it in.
Portal will be released with Half-Life 2: Episode Two on October 9th, 2007 and will feature 3-4 hours worth of mind-bending puzzles. You can check out the Portal trailer on Steam, or download Narbacular Drop from http://www.nuclearmonkeysoftware.com/ to get an idea of how the game will play. Remember, there’s a hole in the sky through which things can fly!
Team Fortress II
Yes. It’s back. Having been on the back burner for a long time now, and apparently having gone through multiple iterations away from the public eye, TF2 has gone back to it’s roots and has been revealed as an arcadey, campy, cell-shaded romp that looks like a ‘60’s spy movie mated with ‘The Incredible.’
Valve has committed to bringing the old-school feel of TF to the future, while at the same time re imagining the game for today’s technology So while you can rest assured that, say, the Heavy is going to be able to spew out bullets (and death) at high rate, there will be changes to some of the classes (such as the spy’s new ability to cloak). It is said that the medic class will receive a major overhaul in Valve effort to ensure that each class has something unique to offer the team.
Team Fortress 2 will be released with Half-Life 2: Episode Two on October 9th, 2007, and there are lots of trailers on steam and elsewhere. For example, this great one featuring the heavy weapons guy.
Future Episodes
Episode 3 is currently being worked on by the team that made Episode 1, and is planned as the final episode of the trilogy that finishes out Half-Life 2's story arch. Current announcements place Episode 3 for a Christmas 2007 release.
Episode 4, according to an article in PC Gamer (Which I have confirmed with Gabe Newell himself that it is accurate), will have a stand-alone plot and be made outside of Valve. Interestingly enough, Gearbox Software (the guys who made the 3 Half-Life add-ons, Opposing Force, Blue Shift and decay) have recently said that while they’re working on Brothers in Arms 3, they ARE able to work on multiple projects at once and Halo “will not be the last time we work on something we didn’t make from scratch.” Not official confirmation by any stretch, but it does tantalize the imagination. Turtle Rock Studios, a company who made Condition Zero and a good deal of Counter-Strike: Source maps, recently licensed the Source Engine and could also be the mysterious third party.
Valve has said they would like to use episodes to take risks they wouldn’t be able to do with a full game, a possible example being a third-person tactical shooter that takes place in the Half-Life universe. If games like Portal are any indication, they’re taking that idea to heart.
Other Source Games - Unreleased
Left4Dead
Left4Dead, made by Turtle Rock Studios, most famous for CS:XBOX, CS:CZ and numerous CS:S maps, is a coop zombie game made on the Source engine. It utilizes an AI "Director" to place enemies and other things in order to make gameplay exciting and different each time. However, the four human players are not the only people in each server: players can join servers and play as boss zombies. The official website, http://www.l4d.com/, didn't work in Firefox, but the fan site http://left4dead411.com/ is said to be a great source of information about L4D.
The Crossing
A unique concept with two gamemodes blended together. Skirmish is two teams fighting against each other, and Coop is two players working their way through the game. However, on certain levels the Skirmish people will somehow have the option to jump into the Coop game and fight against the Coop heroes.
Very little information can be found at the wikipedia page.
Natural Selection 2
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Unknown Worlds have have released a small, casual game in order to try and nab some funding for Natural Selection 2. The game, Zen of Sudoku, is being sold online for about 12.95, and it is currently planned to sell the game through Steam as well. You can check out the info on NS2 as well as Zen of Sodoku at http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/
Alien Swarm: Infested
Based on the popular Unreal Tournament 2004 mod, a top down, tactical, squad-based alien shooter, Alien Swarm: Infested is a new, commercial version to be released for the Source engine. The Black Cat Games is still keeping on the down low about Infested, for the time being, but you can check out their website at http://www.blackcatgames.com/swarm/
Junction Point Studios’ unannounced project
Headed up by Warren Spector, the current word is that Specter’s company is looking for artists for a game that has a “classic Hollywood cartoon” style, of the type featuring “cartoon mice, cats and “wabbits.” This could very well be a computerized version of his the tabletop RPG “Toon” that Specter worked on in the early ‘80s
Twilight War: After the Fall
Twilight War is a Source-Engine powered, post-apocalyptic MMORPG/FPS hybrid, that contrary to popular belief, is no longer dead. While Smiling Gator Productions ran out of funding at one point and canceled production, they were later approached by General Computers who have now become partners on the project. Currently scheduled for a first or second quarter 2007 release.
Steam Community mods!
Time Stamps:
Facebook Integration:
Signatures:
Web Browser:
And a whole lot more stuff here. Including Widgets that can integrate into Google Homepage.
(thanks to Undead Scottsman, and thorgot)
It's the spawn of the undead...
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It will be a part of Left 4 Dead however, I know that much.
Probably will be integrated with TF2 as well. So I'm thinking October at the latest.
Built in VOIP is always free, it has a friends list that you can use to join your friends' games, and you can use the server browser outside of games.
All features that GFW Live! lacks.
Also, free demos, trailers and automatic patches.
http://www.age-of-chivalry.com/
Not much variety right now, but it's surprisingly fun on a big server. Along with Zombie Master, it's one of the games I think we should all play a lot more.
A beserker running through the ranks of the AoC classes would be a sight to see
Here are some screenshots of the beta (not mine).
Bweheheh, oh Ken, playing so hard to get.
Yeah, is that supposed to be any good? All I know is that it's cyberpunk FPS. Seing that I've always been a huge fan of cyberpunk this sounds interesting. What's the community like? Is iot as impenetrable as Counter-Strike these days?
Dystopia is pretty damn good, it tends to be slower paced than CS:S and the like (as far as I recall) but it's a lot of fun.
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
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Set download.
Go to sleep.
Wake up, play awesome new game.
Spring '10. :P
Fall 2010 - Six years after HL2 was released.
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Uh, Steam has always been completely skinnable, and there are several different default themes you can select in the settings.
The default skins I've tried. The skinnable thing I didn't know about though. I'll have to look that up.
The Zombie game mode in Garry's Mod 10 (I can't remember the name, but it's always the most played server in GMod) is really good. Most games become a "blockade the entrance with furniture and shit", but it actually works. If the survivors blockade the stairs, good for them, spawn as a fast zombie or headcrab and jump through a window to the second floor. Even if there isn't a second path, the zombies can almost always overpower the survivors through weight of numbers. And almost half the games come down to the final minutes.
If you have GMod 10 you should really check it out.
It's called Zombie Survival, I play it with friends all the time.
You didn't apply a patch did you? You're not supposed to patch through Relic Online, let Steam patch the game.
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