A post on
Planet Half-Life
(thanks
Frans) reproduces some quotes from Valve's Erik Johnson posted to a
Steam
forum thread discussing the role of Steam in the future of Half-Life. Here
are the excerpts:
There will no longer be a WonID system, it will be
replaced by the SteamID system.
When we convert the userbase to Steam, a single WonID will be valid for all of
the products.
If you're purchased a product from us at retail, you're going to have access to
all of our products via Steam.
No, you do not have to pay for Steam.
That is correct, you'll have to have Steam installed to play the most current
version of Half-Life.
There are
Star
Trek Elite Force II 1.10 Public Beta Test sign-ups on Ritualistic where
those interesting in registering to do so can "play the updated version of
the game before anybody else and give the developers valuable feedback on the
changes made." The beta patch is unsupported, and after installation, users
will only be able to connect to multiplayer servers that are likewise running
the new beta version.
The
Homeplanet Backstory
- Part 6 on HomeLAN Fed continues this series on 3Map Games' upcoming space
game, though rather that really go into the story, the article discusses the
game's spacecraft, the formations they can use, and gives a detailer rundown on
the types of tasks individual ships can perform.
What an odd experience at the mall looking for the Secret Weapons of WWII
expansion for Battlefield 1942. No one actually had it, in fact the only place
someone had actually had heard of it was Best Buy, where the guy lead me to
where he thought it was, where in a neat row there was BF1942, the Road to Rome
expansion, and.... Call of Duty. That's right, the brand new WW2 shooter
expansion is missing in action, but if you want to plunk down some cash on a
yet-to-be completed WW2 shooter, you are all set. Of course it's possible that when CoD
is released its shelf-space will be occupied by pre-order boxes for DOOM 3 or
something, but I guess this is the price of progress.
Oh yeah... Go Big Blue!!!!!!
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