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Valve On Half-Life 3 Rumors: ‘This Is The Community Trolling The Community’

Every popular video game has its following of wishful thinkers, wannabe designers, and straight-up trolls. None has more hard at work on the next title than Half Life 3. And they’ve been very busy lately.



Remembering Old Man Murray, The Website That Rebooted Games Journalism

Our friends at Rock, Paper, Shotgun, the PC gaming partisans, uncovered a bit of a snarl in the Wikipedia page for now-primordeal gaming protoblog, Old Man Murray. An overzealous – or perhaps simply vindictive – Wikipedia editor had deemed the entry about OMM “unnotable” and fit for deletion. But within 24 hours, RPS had mustered such overwhelming support from the gaming industry (Valve’s Gabe Newell, Linden Lab’s Rob Humble, former Gamespot honcho Greg Kasavin, et al.) that the Wikipedia entry for Old Man Murray was rightfully restored.


Valve: No “Tiresome” Zombie Decapitating Mini-Games For Natal

Half-Life and Portal developer Valve won’t be getting into the shitty mini-game business with the advent of Microsoft’s Project Natal for the Xbox 360, at least not if Chet Faliszek, Left 4 Dead


Valve Will Return To The PS3 (Eventually)

Right now, Valve and the PlayStation 3 don’t see eye to eye. Doesn’t mean it’ll always be that way.


Why Valve Took A Leak(er) Out Of Left 4 Dead 2

Speaking to Official Xbox Magazine, Valve’s Chet Faliszek said the Left 4 Dead 2 team came up with a since-discarded special infected called “The Leaker”. He was axed not for doing something disgusting, but predictable.


Valve’s Multiplayer Calculus: (360 = PC) > PS3

More provocative tidbits continue to trickle out of Valve, with the Left 4 Dead 2 project lead saying that game won’t be coming to PS3 because the console’s multiplayer community isn’t on par with PC and the Xbox 360.


Valve: Left 4 Dead 2 Pre-orders 4 Times The 1st

Despite the boycotts, despite the un-Valve-like speedy turnaround time, despite complaints that Left 4 Dead 2′s cast of Survivors can’t possibly live up to the first, pre-orders are four times that of the original, says Valve.


Valve: British People Are Quiet

British people, speak up! According to Valve’s Chet Faliszek, those gamers in the U.K. are quiet.


Justify Your Game: Left 4 Dead 2

Deep within the scarcely lit depths of Valve’s booth at PAX, Chet Faliszek attempts to justify Left 4 Dead 2.


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