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Gordon Freeman is All The Greatest Video Game Hero!
Gamespot had contest running to find out, who is The Hero of all the video games. Their editors picked 64 heroes from various games for different gaming platforms to find out, who is the best hero of them all (One hero to rule them all, one hero to find them, one hero to bring them all and in the darkness bind them). Players all around the world had chance to vote for their favorite hero for 3 months.
Left 4 Dead 2: Scavenge game mode
Scavenge, the fourth game mode to be included in its upcoming zombie thriller, Left 4 Dead 2.
Scavenge mode challenges players to compete in round-based games of up to 8 players (Survivors vs. Infected). The Survivors must battle both the Infected and the clock as they collect gas cans to refuel a generator located in each map. Every can the Survivors pour into the generator scores their team a point and adds time to the clock.
L4D2 Pre-Purchase unfair regional pricing
If you are thinking about pre-purchasing L4D2, you should think twice, as you might be yet another victim of Valve’s regional pricing scam.
Previously only differing the price between US Dollar, Euro and British Pound, they now topped it by even discriminating between the European countries.
So we not only have the well known unfair price difference between Dollar, Euro and Pound:
but also differences between european contries:
Germany, France, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and a lot of others pay the high, unfair price of 44,99€ (L4D2)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/?cc=de (or /?cc= fr, nl, dk, fi, se..)
while countries like: Poland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Lithuania and a few other – for incomprehensible reasons -, pay a much cheaper price of 34,19€, which is only slightly more than the UK price in Euro!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/550/?cc=pl
Thats a price difference of 10€ or even 20€ less when buying a bundle of four L4D2 copies.
Workarounds:
1.) Gifting cheap games to friends in an expensive, foreign region is thankfully still possible, eventhough it probably won’t be for long, judging from recent developements.
So have a good foreign friend who lives in a cheap priced region gift you L4D2, after sending him the money via PayPal or likewise.
2.) If you can live without the “exclusive baseball bat” weapon that comes with Steam Pre-Purchases: Don’t support the Steam Regime at all and Pre-Order L4D2 on Amazon.co.uk for the cheapest of all prices: £26.99 (29,26€)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Electronic-Arts-Left-Dead-DVD/dp/B002BSH9J4/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1254503223&sr=8-2
German users should be aware that L4D2, like 1, will be censored again, when buying from their region.
Buy the game at Amazon.co.uk or have a foreign friend gift it to you, for uncensored Zombie Slaughter.
The Fly Gabe Newell Fund Has Been Successful!
The creators of the Fly Gabe Newell Fund have raised over $3000 in order to fly Gabe Newell and Erik Johnson to Australia to show them their Left 4 Dead campaign. If you don’t know what the hell is this about go here first.
This is one of the latest replies from Gabe Newell:
The English language lacks the words to express the level of excitement Erik and I feel that you and your friends have pulled this off. Give us some time to organize our affairs, as we are trying to ship a product, and then we’ll let you know the time and date of our arrival. Give our best to Robin’s mother, as she is apparently a neighbor of yours.
Gabe & Erik
I believe we will have some pictures over here when that happens ;)
Update:
My last post, suggesting that perhaps Batman’s trusty sidekick Robin had donated to our cause, was made in error – for there can now be no doubt that the real Robin has contributed. The incredible Robin Walker of Valve Software, that is! He attached the following message:
This is Robin Walker, from Valve. The rest of us at Valve would sure appreciate a couple of days without Erik around, so thanks for organising this!
Quick question though: if I donated more, would you buy a one-way ticket for him?
Robin.
Thanks, Robin!
More DLC coming for Left 4 Dead!
Valve revealed that players can expect more DLC after the upcoming “Crash Course,” Shacknews reports.
As one of the L4D2 boycotters reported in one of announcements on Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott group profile, the next DLC will contain either, “a new Special Infected, a new Campaign or new Weapon(s).”
Maybe Valve isn’t that evil after all? Or maybe they just got scared of those thousands of angry potential customers?
We’ll see.
Steam Games on Twitter!
I have no idea how did we miss that but Steam is actually on Twitter.
You can follow Steam on Twitter by clicking here.
In case you’re wondering this Twitter account is mentioned on the official Steam Facebook account as well so it’s legit.
L4D2 Boycott group leader visits Valve
Boycotting Left 4 Dead 2? Think again. Initiator of the whole protest was invited by Valve to their studio (all expenses paid), he could see with his own eyes how the game looks like. The result? He’s delighted.
Valve invited (and paid for flights and hotels needed to carry out this tour) the Steam user Walking_Target to Valve headquarters. They presented Left 4 Dead 2 in its current condition and after that had a bit of friendly chat.
What does the boycott group leader think about the game? Here’s a quote: “The high quality of the game is not in doubt and I am confident that it will be even better.”
What do you think? Is the game really good or is that guy just a sell out?
Steam Forums: The thread won’t die!
Just wanted to tell you folks that I’ve been reading Steam forums lately. The thread I started around 8 months ago is alive and it’s been really abused by Steam moderators today.
So what actually happened? Those lunatics are removing every single post that contains a link to other store(s) than Valve’s. They claim people are advertising? I understand those guys work for Valve in a way (they must obey the forum rules and enforce them) but seriously some of them should take a chill pill or simply calm the fuck down.
I mean look at last few pages of the original Looks like $1 = €1 after all thread. These guys are out of their minds and seriously out of the line here – deleting every single post with links to other stores because they claim that people are advertising!
But actually people are simply pasting links to different Steam alternatives like Good Old Games (the whole Fallout prices thing), Impulse, Direct2Drive and others and compare prices to Steam prices. That’s it.
Is comparing considered advertising? Maybe in their little brains but in the modern world it’s like this, when people see that they can get the same product for 50% or even cheaper, guess which place they will choose? Yes, Steam moderators, it’s hard to believe but they will chose the cheaper alternative which might be harsh for Valve’s business (I’ll give you that) but this is not to piss off Valve it’s to make them lower the prices. In real world when you see that some store sells the same stuff for a lot more cash your natural behavior would be coming up to that asshole and tell him that you and your friends will never shop here again because they rip-off people and guess what? A store owner with brain will actually think about that and do something about it. But not Valve, “the creators of best-selling game franchises and leading technologies”.
Right here, right now I ask everyone who’s interested to visit official Steam forums in their free time and defend our friends (or should I say friends of our cause?) who have some really good points there but are getting bashed by the childish moderators – of course most of Steam forums moderators are nice people and you should always remember that and you should also remember not to spam, rage or post offending stuff there because you will simply get banned.
Consider this message as simple rant and RAGE!!11 and ignore it if you don’t like it. Good night.
Left 4 Dead 2: Pre-order on Amazon $44.99
You can pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 on Amazon for nearly $45. I wonder how many of you are going to pre-order it? ;)
The game will be released on November 17, 2009 – probably worldwide on Steam and maybe with a demo version few days before.
Left 4 Dead 2 is an upcoming sequel to Valve Corporation’s Left 4 Dead. It will build upon the cooperative first-person shooter gameplay of the original and will be using Valve’s proprietary Source engine, the same game engine as Left 4 Dead. The game made its world premiere at E3 2009 with a trailer during the Microsoft press event, and is scheduled for released for Microsoft Windows PC and Xbox 360.
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Left 4 Dead 2 has bulletproof zombies
Most of you probably know that Valve Corporation is currently showing off Left 4 Dead 2 at the Comic-Con in California. One of the most interesting announcements was that the zombies will be bulletproof in the sequel. It seems that the enemies are more varied this time – there are several new types of enemies including special Boomer-like bosses, Hazmat-suited fireproof zombies and zombies wearing Kevlars.
The ‘Kevlars’ can only be killed from a short distance and only in their unshielded backs so run and gun won’t be such a good idea now. All of those new features were showed in the Parish level (that’s the first level everyone seen few weeks ago when Left 4 Dead 2 was just announced) with considerable more aggressive AI director.
Stay tuned for more Left 4 Dead 2 news.
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