Posts Tagged ‘Valve’

No one should make a Portal movie. Fact. And no one should cast any of these actors in such a movie either.

A few ideas for ways Portal could expand into new genres.

Two big titles. Two big surprise moves to multiplatform development. Which marked a bigger shift in the games industry?

Possible spoilers, although really spoiler rights ought to have expired by now.

Capcom’s founder is making his own wines, but which other gaming companies should get involved in the production of foodstuffs, clothing and even housing?

We toyed with the idea of writing some fake April Fool’s news stories today, but realised that once we got passed the funny headlines, we’d just be writing unfunny lies and the whole idea was pretty trite anyway. But we liked our headlines, so we compiled them together for presentation here. Remember, NONE of these is a real story…

On the back of the news that Valve has employed three former key staff members from Uncharted developer Naughty Dog, and inspired by games industry analyst Michael Pachter’s comments about it being a mistake for companies not to develop for the PS3, here’s the five games at the top of our ‘please make this for the PS3’ list…

Valve has formerly announced the already expected, but much-anticipated sequel to 2007′s Orange Box title Portal will be coming out around the end of the year, but unfortunately it doesn’t look like it will coming to PS3. The official reveal of the game has appeared in US magazineGameInformer, but it only lists PC, Xbox 360 and Mac as formats.

After Valve updated the Steam version of Portal with new radio transmissions and a new achievement, sleuthing Steam forum users have been finding all sorts of interesting things like images and a clue pointing towards an an announcement perhaps at GDC next week.

The February issue of Game Informer (it’s a magazine that isn’t Play) is reporting that there won’t be a new Half-Life game this year, even though we’ve had to wait about a million billion years for one

It would be easy to claim he ‘blasted’ Valve, or that he’s ‘stoking the fire’ or other such nonsense, but the simple fact is Randy Pitchford has commented on Valve’s refusal to develop for PS3, and he’s called it “foolish”

News reporting that wears its lack of depth as a badge of pride.