Thursday, January 10th 2008
Valve Acquires Turtle Rock Studios
Fresh off the success of The Orange Box, the 2007 game of the year award-winning collection of new games heralded as "the best value in gaming history," Valve Corporation announced the acquisition of Turtle Rock Studios, the Orange County-based development house behind one of 2008's most anticipated games, Left 4 Dead. The merger of the two companies will extend Valve's development team and provide the company with a new studio in southern California. "We have been seeing very strong growth with Steam and Source, our content distribution and development platforms, up over 150% over the last 12 months. Given our expectations for Left 4 Dead and our long-standing relationships with members of the Turtle Rock team, this was an easy decision. It also gives us a base from which to expand our development activities in the Los Angeles area," said Gabe Newell, president of Valve. "Left 4 Dead fills a long-standing demand gamers have had for a co-op first-person action experience, and it will also help Valve's expansion into the console market," added Doug Lombardi, Valve's VP of marketing.
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But you know how many people still play CS 1.6 and CS:S.
Anyone who says Counter-Strike wasn't that good is a fool in my book. Half-Life's mod community is what kept the Valve games going where they are today! Anyone who started playing Half-Life when it first came out knows this. When Counter-Strike was released as a free game to all of us gamers back then it had the biggest population of players on the WON network. Where do you think Fatality got his roots? What developers need to understand, is that modders can make or break a game. How do you think WC3 is still going strong with it's population?
OH BTW, TF2 in my oppinion ties with CoD4 for being the best tactical FPSs ever made.
Edit: Noob-friendly FTL!
But don't get me wrong, noob friendly games aren't bad at all. They just get old, and loose their competitive sense because you feel like you never get to a point that you get to in 1.6. I'm also not saying SOF is bad game. SOF is a great game and I still have the jewel case in its original box. Same goes for all of the COD games except COD3.
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Ever want to get into the real underground world of CS 1.6 competition then go here:
www.mirc.com
Download the client.
Join the Gamesurge server in the server list.
Register here:
gamesurge.net/createaccount/
Sign in and join these channels:
#findscrim
#findringer
#findclan
#calscrim
#eastpugz
#sourcescrim
#sourceringer
I would also recommend getting vent and a good headset with a mic.
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I'm not going to get back into CS beacuse the game was obsolete in 2002.
If you think CS was obsolete in 02 then I bet you think WC3 and Starcraft are obsolete.