Just when you dared to hope again for Half-Life 2: Episode 3. In an interview with Develop, Valve President Gabe Newell discussed moving beyond episodic content, and more towards “games as a service”. The new aspiration, which the company had already been experimenting with on games like Team Fortress 2, supports game expansions not through […]
Valve has released some, anemic, details on the first batch of downloadable content for Portal 2, but what little has been said is exactly what we like to hear. “Portal 2 DLC #1″, as it is currently known, will be made available for free sometime this Summer, and will include leaderboards, a challenge mode across […]
Although already 90% devoted to the multiplayer scene, Valve declared on Geoff Keighley’s “Final Hours of Portal 2” App that the puzzle shooter would be the last of its game not to include a dedicated multiplayer experience beyond simple co-op. The only other game in Valve’s dossier not to feature some multiplayer component is Half-Life.
With a larger budget and three times the staff, does Portal 2 work on a big scale? Or has the quaint charm of the original been sacrificed for polish?