For console fans worried that zombie shooter Left 4 Dead would cause yet another Xbox Live crash thanks to player congestion, it might please you to know that the game will be getting dedicated servers. With a game sold on its on the web co-op, that’s definitely how you do it right. Valve hasn’t stated how many servers will be available, but the promise is that “everyone’s covered.” Great news.
Split-screen play is also being done properly, with two players able to play locally with others on the web from the same console. You’ll also be able to select whether you want the screen split vertically or horizontally. Sounds like a small detail, but it’s a big indicator of just how serious Valve is about making co-op play as perfect an experience as possible.
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Valve has just sent us memo mentioning that two of Oddworld Inhabitants’ cult-classics are available on Steam right now: Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee and Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus. Each of the games can be had for $9.99 apiece ($8.99 until September 4) or can both be picked up in an “Oddworld Pack” for $14.99. I’d originally missed out on the early Oddworld games, so this is the perfect opportunity for me to give them a try.
On the Stardock side of things, it’s been announced that their digital download platform Impulse has entered into “phase two.” Aside from adding some of 2K’s back catalog (Civilizations III, Shattered Union, Sid Meier’s Pirates!, and Sid Meier’s Railroads!) to the service, they’ve also set several new features live, such as their matchmaking tool ImpulseReactor.
Several software applications have also been added to Impulse, such as WordPerfect Office X4, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, and AVG Anti-Virus software. I guess it’s just a part of making the service well-rounded.
Are any of these titles something that you might want to download?
Via Destructoid
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Although I’ve had a long-running love of both turn-based and real-time strategy games, the burgeoning tower-defense genre got no immediate interest from me. Perhaps it’s because I initially perceived them as “the lazy man’s strategy game.” After giving some a try, though, I started warming up to the notion of building only defenses to cease ever increasing hoards of bad guys. Still, you’d think that with the somewhat formulaic nature of the gameplay new games wouldn’t be coming out so regularly, but that definitely isn’t the case.
Announced today at PAX, Defense Grid: The Awakening is the latest contender that’ll be trying to capitalize on your tower building urges. The Hidden Path Entertainment developed PC title appears to be put in a Sci-fi setting of some sort, and has a promised eight hour long campaign with several additional challenge modes to keep you occupied long after completing the main storyline.
“We have spent a lot of time studying the emotional curve of the game and worked to ensure that the challenge of each enemy wave creates an enjoyable pace and progression throughout the campaign,” stated Mark Terrano, Design Director and co-founder of Hidden Path Entertainment.
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The “I wouldn’t have bought it anyway” defense is one of the Ten Golden Rules of videogame piracy (I rule at plugging) but it’s a rule that Crysis developer Crytek doesn’t find entirely valid. The studio argues that while not everybody who pirated Crysis would have potentially paid for it, sales were still lost.
“Well, clearly not all would have,” conceded Crytek’s engine business manager Harald Seeley. “But judging by, for example, the number of users who downloaded our patches, there were a lot more active players than there were unit sales. And I think we have the ability to safely say if they were still playing the game by the time our latest patch released, and if they were playing on a pirated copy, then they were a sale that didn’t happen but probably would have had it not been possible to obtain the game illegally.”
Crysis is Crytek’s most pirated game of all time, and CEO Cevat Yerli has had more than his fair share of words on the subject, even stating that the company would no longer produce Computer exclusive content thanks to pirates.
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With Bayonetta, Darksiders and X-Blades all on the horizon, my love of mindless combat-oriented games is about to get what it yearns for massive time. This day, we’ve some more screens from the latter of that little list and, as you can see, the main character still thinks that running around in her knickers is a suitable way to go into battle.
Well, if she wants to show the skin, far be it from me to stop her liberating herself. What kind of man would I be if I recommended she should cover up? A low-down, rotten sexist is what! Well, I’ll take a stand for feminism and applaud this strong woman’s decision to have her arse and norks prominently displayed for all the see. In fact, I think she should go the whole way and really score a blow for sexual politics. Go on love, flop ‘em out in the name of justice. I’ll be providing the most rigid of support, I can assure you of that.
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