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Archive for January, 2009
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Halflife2.net Plays Beta of Berimbau Mod
Posted @ 7:52 PM, January 30 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Mods
This week, we've been lucky enough for the Ninja Workshop team to have given us access to their new closed beta build of their mod Berimbau. Berimbau is a multiplayer Source engine mod featuring fierce sword duels in a retro-future universe. The game features an open sword combat system that allows for creative use of combos, counter-attacks, and parries. This combat system encourages players to develop attack patterns and strategies to defeat their opponents, rather than random “knife-fight” melee combat.
Playing together over the past few days has been great to see a mod in it's relative infancy as it's core features are put into place. This mod offers a unique experience, whereby you must co-ordinate strings of attacks, as well as blocks & parries. Dodging and stance changes are all important, and this will be a mod to look out for in the future. Duels can be fast and frantic or controlled and methodical, multi duels will add to the chaos once introduced. Keep up to date with the ninjaworkshop team on their website, and I'm sure they will be looking for support in the ModDB MOTY competition if this looks up your street!
   
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Gabe to talk at DICE 2009
Posted @ 5:16 PM, January 30 2009, By: Evo In News
Word has it that Gabe Newell will deliver a keynote address at this years Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain Summit (DICE). I think it is fair to say that we can expect some very insightful words from Newell on the state of play in the games business. Newell will be talking on the 18th of February, that should be an interesting day.
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Scout design process explained
Posted @ 2:28 PM, January 30 2009, By: AciD In News
There is a new post on Team Fortress 2 blog, Robin Walker talks about how boring Scout became that funny little guy who says "Boink!" all the time.
You can visit Team Fortress 2 blog here.
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Monster Trucks and Saints Row on Steam
Posted @ 5:37 AM, January 30 2009, By: Evo In News, Steam Games
Two new games have just arrived on Steam, as you can see from the pictures above, they are Monster Trucks Nitro and Saints Row 2.Monster Trucks Nitro is from RedLynx, the team behind the amazing Trials 2. Monster Trucks is selling for £8.49 / 8.99 € right now, but will be back up to £16.99 soon. Saints Row 2 is making its long awaited arrival on Steam, and is available for £34.99 / 49.99 €
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Unreal Tournament 3 Now With SteamWorks
Posted @ 5:48 PM, January 29 2009, By: AciD In News
Unreal Tournament 3 the newest instalment of the famous Unreal Tournament series now has SteamWorks code under it's hood. The game now contains 50 achievements as well as new features such as enhancements in AI, server browsing, demo recording, mod support, and much more. Due to an agreement with Valve, users who purchased Unreal Tournament 3 via a retail outlet can register their key with Steam. There will also be a massive update in upcoming weeks so stay sharp!
You can visit the store page here.
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Eternal Silence 3.2 Available This Friday
Posted @ 7:44 AM, January 29 2009, By: AciD In News
Newest version of Eternal Silence mod will be available this Friday on Steam. Thanks to agreement with Valve mod will receive SteamWorks treatment - free automatic updates and it will be downloadable via Steam. This update will contain 9 maps as well as 3 new game types. You should also expect many improvements on infantry combat.
You can view Eternal Silence website here.
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Team Fortress 2 Update Released
Posted @ 7:48 PM, January 28 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Team Fortress 2
The promised update including many bug fixes has been released: - Added percentage to UberCharge HUD panel for the Medic
- Added upgrade progress and levels to Engineer HUD panel for all buildings
- Changed AutoTeam to give new players to the attackers on attack/defend maps if the teams are even
- Fixed Pyro model not animating in the class menu
- Fixed players getting stuck in the "prepare to respawn..." countdown loop
- Fixed Natascha not getting the proper 75% of damage and slightly increased the strength of Natascha's slowdown
- Fixed teleporter entrance/exit effects being drawn when they don't have a matching teleporter entrance/exit
- Fixed announcer saying "the cart is nearing the checkpoint" after the round has already been won
- Fixed cloaked spies having a particle-beam effect while standing next to a dispenser that's healing them
- Fixed several materials warnings in the console
Great to see some of those fixes so quickly since the engineer building changes. To see the full changelist, including some updates to Day of Defeat Source too, see here: update changelist. No Scout pack yet, very soon though!
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Team Fortress 2 Official Blog Update
Posted @ 3:22 AM, January 28 2009, By: AciD In News
There is a new post on Team Fortress 2 blog. There is also a new sub-page called movies where you can find all released team videos as well as a sneak peek of upcoming ones. Blog post mentions that scout update is nearly done and there is only some artwork left to do. In addition Robin responds to few community questions such as: "When's the next update going to be out?" or "Why should I use Natascha? And doesn't she only do 66% damage, not 75%?".
You can visit blog by clicking this link.
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Playtest Custom Payload Map by Pi Mu Rho Tonight
Posted @ 10:34 AM, January 25 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Maps, Team Fortress 2
It's been many months in the works, but finally Pi Mu Rho has released his much anticipated pl_indigo payload map. The quality of Pi's maps have always been astonishingly high as seen from his work on Zombie Master and upcoming Half-life Short Stories. Pi has kindly provided a server for us to play the new map as well as an updated version of the omega redux (CTF map). You can join the server at any time and take a look, however we will be gathering together at 7:00pm GMT / 2:00pm East Coast US for Halflife2.net to play together, make sure you're there! Check out the screenshots below and yes, the payload does have to cross a water obstacle in section 1! Other details: - IP - 85.236.100.30:28315
- password - "omega"
- Join our Steam Community to chat to find us in-game & talk about the maps
Download pl_indigo now here and ctf_omega redux here
  
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Zeno Clash Coming to Steam (On Source Engine)
Posted @ 10:25 AM, January 24 2009, By: Hectic Glenn In Steam Games
What is Zeno Clash I hear you exclaim! Well it's a new game developed by ACE Team, an independent video game developer based in Santiago, Chile. Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world using the Source engine. The game looks to have an extremely unique art direction with an odd mixture of first person fighting which looks like good fun. Zeno Clash is a story driven game that uniquely blends the first person genre with the fighting game genre. Players will play the role of Ghat, the son of an impressive hermaphrodite creature called Father-Mother, whose children form the most powerful clan in the city of Halstedom. Ghat must escape from his family and start an incredible journey with his female companion Deadra, who will aid him in the dangerous lands of Zenozoik. Zeno Clash will be released on Steam and Direct2Drive this Spring and ACE Team are in the process of identifying a retail publisher. The full game upon release will only be $20! Check out the official Zeno Clash website, and the official press release for ZC. Even though these guys have only recently made an appearance, ModDB have already grabbed a word with a developer from ACE Team for a short interview about their upcoming release. We will keep you posted.
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Left 4 Dead Update Released
Posted @ 5:02 AM, January 24 2009, By: AciD In Left 4 Dead, News
Updates to Left 4 Dead have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
- Fixed an exploit with melee where swapping weapons ignored the intended delay between swings
- In Versus mode, the Tanks' health now reflects the damage he takes from burning
- Fixed an exploit related to the "joinclass" command
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Weekend Deal: 75% off Mount and Blade
Posted @ 3:07 PM, January 23 2009, By: AciD In News
This weekend you can buy Mount and Blade 75% off standard price that is $7.50 / 7.50€ / £6.25.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior.
Free-form sand-box gameplay. You are free to go anywhere in a world with more than a hundred unique locations including villages, castles and towns.
Highly advanced and intuitive sword-fighting systems.
You can be anything from a lonesome adventurer to a commander of armies or an owner of villages, castles or towns.
Sophisticated AI will challenge you in combat and in your strategic plans
You can visit the store page here.
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