This landed on Friday and I’m sure everyone’s already seen it — the intro movie for Left 4 Dead.
It’s fantastic, especially in HD.
The Tom has also written a brief strategy guide on how to survive your first game of Left 4 Dead.  It basically boils down to this line:
MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL
Protip!

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I spend most of my workday wishing I was home playing games, but somehow, when I actually have the time to play them, I tend to do other stuff instead.  Weird.
Award-Winner “Tom” Francis, however, has been playing  Far Cry 2, and rather than just griping about the things he doesn’t like about the game, he’s […]

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Played some more FC2 last night.  Some bullet-pointed thoughts to celebrate all the bullets in the game, but mainly because I’m too lazy to write proper paragraphs.

They did a great job with the world’s clock, the weather, the sun rising and setting, the night and day system, all that.  The noonday sun feels especially harsh […]

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Holy crap!  Some TF2 news at last!
There’s been an update to TF2 that some websites are calling “minor” but is actually a pretty big deal.  Let’s take a look.

Added rate limit for several client commands to prevent server spamming

Okay.  Spamming is bad so this must be good.

Added consistency checking for particle systems

I’m really unhappy about […]

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First, congrats to Tom Francis on winning The Games Media Award for Specialist Games Writer in Print!  As if there was any doubt.  You can read Tom’s writing about winning the award for writing here.
Also, an unusual and very funny blog post on the TF2 Official Blog popped up last week.  Read it here.
I’ve been […]

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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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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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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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So, at long last, a new post has appeared on the Official TF2 Blog.  Seems the silence was due to everyone throwing their efforts into Left 4 Dead, but now work on the next class pack will resume.
So, who will be highlighted in the next round of weapons and achievements?  Tom seems to feel it’s […]

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First, and most importantly, I got mentioned on the latest PC Gamer UK podcast. That’s pretty cool.
I was mentioned because I complained to Tom that their podcast was too short: podcasts should always be long enough to cover an entire daily commute of mine, about an hour and forty-five minutes round-trip. The PCGUK […]

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