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Valve Unleashes An Alien Swarm On Steam

The Alien Swarm Unreal Tournament 2004 mod becomes a full, Source-powered four-player co-op tactics game, available for free on Steam this Monday, courtesy of the nice folks at Valve.


December 24, 2009
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Left 4 Dead 2 Now Officially Supports Custom Campaigns

Valve’s gift to the Left 4 Dead 2 customisation community has arrived with the release of official campaign authoring tools and add-on support. You want to play custom campaigns of your own or someone else’s creation? Go nuts.


December 8, 2009
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Get Ready For Even Freakier L4D2 Mods

The delayed SDK for Left 4 Dead 2 has been a bummer to that robust modding community, but now they have news that softens their disappointment: When it arrives, the kit will support custom survivors, infected, weapons, you name it.


November 14, 2009
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More Than 50,000 Snap Up The Free Unreal SDK

Epic Games announced more than 50,000 downloads of its Unreal Development Kit in the first week the publisher started offering it for free.


August 5, 2009
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Valve Releasing More Team Fortress 2 SDK

Not content with releasing a software development kit for Team Fortress 2′s maps and environments, Valve will soon be releasing the SDK for the game’s character models and animations as well.


July 29, 2009
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Zeno Clash Devs Release Source Code

One good thing about many games built on Valve’s Source engine is that developers often release the SDK (software development kit) for them. And so it is with Zeno Clash.


June 26, 2009
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Left 4 Dead Now Officially Supports Custom Campaigns

Official support for community created campaigns has just been added to Left 4 Dead, thanks to the most recent update to the game. Valve has also updated the Left 4 Dead authoring tools—so get crackin’ map makers!


June 20, 2009
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Left 4 Dead Creation Tools Coming Next Week

While the campaigns that shipped with Left 4 Dead were all pretty good, you do get sick of them after a while. Which is where custom, user-generated campaigns come in.


June 16, 2009
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Team Fortress 2 Map Editing Just Got A Lot Easier

Valve today released an update to their Source SDK, and included within were the source files for most of Team Fortress 2′s original maps. Translation? It’s now a lot easier to edit Team Fortress 2 maps.


March 7, 2008
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Apple Has Democratised Platform-Specific Game Design

In all of the major announcement that hit during Apple’s software development kit (SDK) meeting today, it’s easy to overlook what may have been the most important aspect—the SDK itself. Formerly Apple’s internal development tools, the software package is being released to the entire public for no charge starting today. It doesn’t need an expensive or hard to acquire development kit. You don’t need to pitch Sony on why you’re worthy for a dev kit during times of shortages.

Hell, you don’t even need an iPhone (though it’s recommended). All you need is an OSX based Mac and, you know, a bit of genius and a lot of work ethic. (Apparently you can actually develop right on the iPhone as well…but who knows how well that’ll work.)

So you’re thinking, “But I want to sell my product on their Apple Store. That’ll cost me a tonne and be impossible”. Nope, it won’t be either of those things.