Tag Archives: valve

Great interview with Gooseman

After four years in North America, I ran out of money and a friend of mine encouraged me to come to Korea as he told me there would be many opportunities to market my game there and fund development. I spent the next two-plus years working in Korea with some really experienced programmers and some [...]

Summary of Phoronix/Steam/Linux Situation

thanks to Nemoder for the graphic and Phoronix for ragging on Steam + Linux + UT3 non-stop.

Tom Francis, His Gnome, and Left 4 Dead 2

In the Dark Carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2, you can win a garden gnome at the fairground near the start – and there’s an achievement for carrying it all the way to the end. It is, in fact, the same goddamn gnome I carried through Episode goddamn Two, for the same goddamn reason: [...]

Steamy Sales

Steam has a sale going on for all three Company of Heroes titles including the new game (Tales of Valor) at $40, Peggle Complete, including Nights and the original Peggle Deluxe ($10), and 50% off all Strategy First titles, including a discount on the pack which includes all of their games on Steam ($74.99).

Left 4 Dead Updates

Valve updated Left 4 Dead today with some great gameplay changes. One of which corrects my personal pet-peeve with the Boomer; his vomit will sometimes be deflected by normal infected who get in the way. Full list of changes: Game and client changes Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see [...]

Gang Garrison 2, A Team Fortress 2 De-Make

I’d heard about it before, but never given it a chance, now I know why I was an idiot. Gang Garrison 2 is an hilariously awesome version of Team Fortress 2, minus the 3D, but including TCP/IP (or UDP perhaps) networking. The music is a series of chiptune recreations, the graphics look like the screenshot [...]

A new blogger and an indie game sale!

Ahoy folks! I’m fydo and apparently zakk wants me to write some stuff on this silly blog. I like to hang out in the indie games / opensource games crowd, so I’ll try to share any interesting tidbits I pick up on. Meow? For instance, I might mention that this weekend there is a weekend [...]

Tired of Annoying Sounds in Team Fortress 2?

Or in any source engine game, just bring down the console (press the ` key, next to the 1 key) and enter: cl_downloadfilter “nosounds” Enjoy the lack of idiotic beavis and butthead sound effects!