EA sent over some new screens for Team Fortress 2, shipping in The Orange Box. This looks to be one of the best multiplayer titles of the year, up there with Halo 3, CoD4, and Warhawk.
Gabe Newell threw down the gauntlet and banned his employees from playing BioShock on either PC or Xbox 360. Not forever mind you, but only until Half-Life 2 Episode Two and the Orange Box are done and shipping, which is scheduled for mid October.
“We had to ban Bioshock from our offices,” Valve boss Gabe Newell told us. “Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done - that’s our reward to ourselves as a company; everyone gets a copy of Bioshock.”
At least everyone will get a free copy from Mr. Newell. I know I wouldn’t be able to wait until mid October for BioShock.
That rhyme was not intentional by the way. Damn it. Anyway, yahoogames reports that the UK will start a service at the UK based website, tournament.com that allows players to pay a small entrance fee in order to win various amounts of money. The entrance fees range from free for practice and $10 for buy in. The only game that is available now is Counter Strike and Half Life 2. The rationale behind this is simple:
“Gambling rewards a player based purely on luck, while Tournament.com is a service that rewards players based on their skill. They’re two very different models.”
We’re confident that [our anti-cheating software] is some of the best out there and we use a combination of different anti-cheating software developed by third parties in conjunction with our internally developed Tournament Anti-Cheat, also known as TAC.”To supplement our security, we also have admins who continuously monitor in-game play, making sure that everyone is playing fair.”
This seems to be the equivalent to the online poker craze that swept the nation a few years ago, although far more in depth. I see the only flaw being this. Sometimes luck is a good thing. There are no doubt some awesome players who will keep piling up the wins and laughing with your money. I hope the ranking system will take this into account.
IGN today released some new screenshots for the Xbox 360 version of Half-Life 2 (specifically the Orange Box, since these are of the main game).
I have to say, these look no better than the original Xbox version. I just fired up the game on my PC and it looks much better, and I haven’t upgraded any of my PC components in over 3 years. I’m imagining the PS3 version will look just as bad.
Someone at Valve better put their foot down on this and get some people working a little harder, or this is going to be a major disappointment for them.
With all the hype surround Halo 3, it’s almost easy to forget that Half-Life 2 and it’s spin-off games are coming for the Xbox 360 and PS3 later this year.
Here’s a trailer showing the contents of the Black Box, which includes Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Team Fortress, and Portal. Personally, I’m going for the Orange Box which also includes the full Half-Life 2 and Episode 1.
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