World of Goo, the award-winning, highly acclaimed indie goo-based building game, is coming to Steam next week.
I preordered this direct from the creators a couple weeks ago and have been playing and enjoying it, but I was a bit miffed to hear it would appear on Steam with achievements and auto-updates.  Was I gonna miss […]

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Awesome idea.
I’m in a bit of a Fallout 3 media blackout right now, because I’m going to buy the game and don’t want to see anymore screenshots or videos.  I’ve seen enough, I’m sold, I’m buying it, so I don’t want any more info on the game to keep it as fresh as possible for […]

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The Left 4 Dead Official Blog is up on the Left 4 Dead Official Site.  Will they be more diligent about posting than their counterparts over at the nearly silent TF2 Official Blog?  Time will tell.
In their first post, Valve’s Mike Booth discusses the rigorous playtesting the game is currently undergoing by the staff and […]

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Lots of great suggestions for tweaks/fixes/additions have shown up in the comments of this post, and I’ll paste the ones I like in here.  Let’s see how many of them get included in the next TF2 update!
1)   Allow the spy to move at his regular speed when disguised as a slower class by holding […]

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Valve is hard at work on our new class pack, and presumably the next update will include not only new weapons and achievements, but other tweaks and fixes and changes to the game, as they have in the past.
Which means it’s time to suggest some stuff we want to see in the next update.  If […]

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Some general Fallout stuff from the past week or so:
The original Fallout is currently available for free at Gametap.  If you’d like to avoid GameTap’s download thingie, it’ll apparently run you six bucks on Good Old Games if you’re a member.  Might try this myself, as I’ve never played.
Make sure you visit Fallout 3’s Prepare […]

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I’ve been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky the past few nights.  Haven’t quite finished, but I’ve played enough, I think, to give the game a comprehensive review.
Clear Sky is a prequel to 2007’s bleak, atmospheric RPG-ish shooter.  You play as another mysterious Stalker, one of a number of shadowy mercenaries who wander the irradiated wastelands around […]

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So, I finished Spore.  In a manner of speaking.
After playing in space for about a week, experiencing both fun and frustration, I finally got to the center of the galaxy.  Won’t say what’s there or spoil anything for anyone, I’ll just parrot what Tom said in his review: it wasn’t what I was expecting.
Space, is […]

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A quick rundown on a few things I didn’t blog about last week but wanted to but didn’t.  But wanted to.
But didn’t.
TF2D:  A pixellated 2D sidescroller version of TF2, called Gang Garrison 2.  It’s the result of the Bootleg Demakes Competition, a contest to remake games in the old-school style. It’s a real multiplayer game, […]

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The first Spore patch has sprouted legs and crawled out of the primordial –  oh, screw the obvious analogy.  For those of you playing, the patch addresses a number of aspects of the game, negating in some ways the big huge long post I’ve almost finished writing about a bunch of stuff that has been […]

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