Weeks ago, Valve appealed the Australian classification board’s decision to not rate Left 4 Dead 2, and offered an edited version; still hoping that the appeal would be successful and Australians would experience zombie killing in all its gory glory. The appeal has been denied, and Valve reports that the approved, edited version of the […]
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Valve is trying to appease Australia with an edited version of Left 4 Dead 2. Weeks ago, the game was denied rating in Australia, effectively banning it, due to the gore and violent content which was too much even for Australia’s highest rating of MA 15+. Valve’s Gabe Newell revealed in a press conference in
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Valve promised goodies and incentives to those who pre-order Left 4 Dead 2 from certain retailers, including 10% off the price of the game. This brings the price to $45 for the PC and $55 for the Xbox 360 version. Pre-orderers will also get an exclusive melee weapon, the American Baseball Bat, and early access
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Left 4 Dead 2 has been denied classification in Australia, essentially banning the game. Australia’s highest video game rating is M 15+ and anything that would meet criteria beyond that cannot be sold or demonstrated. It seems the gorey nature of the game is the reason behind this. According to documents from news.com.au “The game
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Team Fortress 2 players using external idling applications in order to get item drops will no longer be tolerated. Valve announced today they are adopting a zero tolerance policy for these applications used to manipulate the persistent item system. Players who have used these applications in the past (about 4.5% of the TF2 community) will
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Now’s your chance to fill in the missing pieces to your Half-Life collection. Steam is offering the Half-Life Collection with a massive discount. You’re able to purchase the games individually or the complete collection for $16.99.Details on pricing on individual games can be found below, or from the Steam website. If that’s not enough game
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Included in Valve’s TF2 Day 2 announcement of what is included in their upcoming classless update is a new game mode, King of the Hill. Taglined “Since their discovery in 1895, hills have fascinated Kings” this new mode is an intense new game mode focused around a single, central, catapult. The catapult area is locked
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Call of Duty: World at War is 50% (bringing the price to the ultra affordable price of $24.99) on Steam for their Mid-week Madness. Now’s the time to pick it up if you haven’t already! You’d better hurry, the deal ends tomorrow, August 13th. http://store.steampowered.com/app/10090/ If you are already the proud owner of
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Team Fortress 2 will be getting its first “Classless” update. This is the first announced update since its last in May, and there will not be any new additions to any of the classes (though two classes were updated in May). Day 1 of the reveal of the update announced the addition of 18 new
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Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve, is taking an interest into turning gamers into investors. The investment would be Valve games they want to see in the future. Currently gamers tend to get some say in the actual game, but not which games they get to see come to market. According to Newell, "One of the
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