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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Rumours have been swirling on the internet that Valve’s eagerly awaited zombie shooter Left 4 Dead for the Xbox 360 and PC would also be hitting the PLAYSTATION 3. Seems those rumours have been smashed pretty hard for the time being by Valve’s Doug Lombardi, who states:
There is no PS3 version of Left 4 Dead currently in production.
Hey, maybe there will be one day! But that day is not today.
Left 4 Dead on the PS3? [IGN Thanks, Duong!]
Speaking with Valve’s Doug Lombardi earlier this week at E3, we got onto the topic of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade version of Portal. I wanted to know what gamers could expect from the game and why Valve decided to tweak it for the XBLA release.
“It’s about giving gamers more choices, more points of entry to get to the party, open more gates to the theme park as it were”, he said. “It makes a lot of sense for us.
“The main idea is that this is Portal available as a download, and there is additional content as advanced challenges that will be available to you after you finish the critical path of the game”.
But will we be seeing more of GlaDOS this time around, or perhaps an extended storyline?
“No”, he said, breaking hearts everywhere. “That’s for a game to be named later perhaps”.
To check out our full interview with Lombardi and hear him pontificate on everything from Left 4 Dead Machinima to Steam as an archive for games hit up the link below.
According to E3.net and various excited internet reports, Half-Life 2: Episode Three will be making its debut appearance at E3, just a few weeks away. According to the site, it will also be joined by titles like Kid Icarus and Animal Crossing for Wii. That’d be great news, if E3.net were the official E3 site, as some reports have claimed, and not an unofficial UGO owned web site.
According to Valve’s marketing director Doug Lombardi Half-Life 2: Episode Three won’t be making an appearance at E3 this year, with the listing chalked up to a “misprint (or something)”. We would assume that if Valve is showcasing anything at E3 this year, it will be Left 4 Dead which is planned for a November 4 release.
Valve might make some of the best games for grown-ups around, but that doesn’t mean they’re a one-trick pony. Speaking with CVG, Doug Lombardi has said that they’re actually interested in making games for kids as well:
Micro-transactions aren’t the future, they’re the now. While companies like EA are totally on board with nickel and diming players for added content, some companies aren’t. Take, Valve for instance. It hasn’t gone micro-transactional. But would it? Let’s hear what Valve’s Dough Lombardi has to say: If we ever get a game that fits that, we’d love to do that. I’d love to have a game that we gave away saying ‘however much you want to invest in this, this is yours’.
If? If?! No, Doug, you must mean when. Left 4 Dead Interview [Play][Pic]
Portal may have proven itself to be a big deal, but it’s still a small game. That’s why Valve’s Veep of marketing Doug Lombardi would love to see it on Xbox LIVE Arcade. But Microsoft? Microsoft wasn’t having it. I’d love to sell Portal on Xbox live. [But]the platform holders aren’t doing that right now. There’s a size limit and all kinds of other things.
He continues:
Recently, Valve went on record saying that they’d like their upcoming Team Fortress 2 map pack to be free on both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but admitted that such a situation might not be possible. Many wondered if this uncertain future was the result of EA meddling or interference from the platform holders themselves.
We contacted Valve to clarify and their VP of marketing Doug Lombardi informed us that, “The platform holder owns the final call.” So just as we’d suspected, whether or not we see these maps for free is indeed up to Sony and Microsoft.
