Tag archive: half life 2

We’re not about to let ourselves get too excited, but the latest scuttlebutt from the internet that comes to us from the folks at Ubergizmo, certainly sent our hearts aflutter. It appears that a marketer at Monday Night Combat tweeted something rather interesting and hope-inspiring: the tweet showed a Valve worker wearing a Half-Life 3 t-shirt. Of course if you don’t already know, Half Life and its subsequent sequels are heralded and loved by… Read More

Confirmed by a DICE community manager, all physical copies of Battlefield 3 for the PC will require consumers to install the Origin client to play the game. Consumers that purchase Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 versions of the game will only need an EA account to play the first-person shooter. This extra step is required for all digital downloads of the game as well, regardless of where the consumer purchases it. EA is already attempting to push… Read More

GLaDOS, the endearingly insane antagonistic from the original Portal returns in one of the most eagerly anticipated titles of the year. Fueling the fires for Portal 2 is the fact that the first game was little more than an expansion for Half Life 2. Once the game exploded and became a franchise in its own right, the hype for a full length game has been intense, and developer Valve is promising a single player and co-op campaign that will take… Read More

Even the most hopelessly deluded Macheads wouldn’t tell you otherwise: Macs suck for gaming. Despite capable hardware – including a dedicated GPU in every model on the market today – the complete vacuum of recent titles for Apple’s OS X operating system has left Mac owners with a lust for gaming high and dry. But the tide could be turning, as heavyweight developer Valve Software hinted that it might be giving the platform some much needed love… Read More

Quote from the review at Firing Squad: “Is Half-Life 2 perfect? Hardly. Revolutionary? Not at all. For all of marketing's attempts to make you think otherwise, this is still just Half-Life but with fancy graphics and physics. The level design has been cleaned up, the fat has been trimmed and Valve has really upped the production values, but anyone with a clear eye can see that this is still Half-Life. And that's great in… Read More

From The Inquirer: “NVIDIA's upcoming graphics chip, NV40, supports the shader models 3.0 that NVIDIA claims are in DirectX 9.1 and which, in the real world, are in DirectX 9.0c. Still, NVIDIA's fearless marketeers are also claiming that the chip has three times the performance and eight times faster shaders than the NV35

Quote from the review at Vipers Lair: “The FM-Tuner is a concern for SFF owners, but the dual CRT display ability has finally made it to the AIW. It's a fast card, loaded with features, and with Half-Life 2 available as a free download, you can't go wrong with the AIW 9600 Pro.” Read the full review

Quote from the review: “Asus seems to have been able to transition to ATI rather smoothly, which makes me wonder just how long this was in the works. They took a new product cycle and built a card that will be the envy of your friends, assuming you have any, as long as you have the pockets to pay for it. The bundle that Asus has created will be hard to match for any manufacturer. The game bundle is pretty dang nice, what… Read More