Tag: Valve

Wednesday 8-22-18: D.Va’s Animated Short, Vive Wireless Adapter Release, and Gabe Newell’s Dota 2 Voice Pack

On August 22, 2018

News! Read it!

Vive Wireless Adapter Release Date
D.Va’s Shooting Star Overwatch Video
The Dota 2 Gabe Newell Announcer Pack

Vive’s Wireless Adapter

According to a recent post on the Vive blog, the Wireless Adapter for the HTC Vive will release publicly on September 24, with preorders opening up on September 5. The standard version costs $299, while the Pro version costs $359. As the name implies, this is Valve’s official method of eliminating cables in the virtual reality process. It’s noted that you need a free PCI-e slot to install the receiver card. I wish I could afford one.

Shooting Star

Blizzard released a new animated short, featuring modern-day D.Va. She’s the leader of a protective task force for the Korean city of Busan. I won’t go into detail about it, just watch for yourself.

Also, Busan will be a new control map in Overwatch, based in the city from the short.

Gabe Newell Dota Announcer Pack

Valve founder Gabe Newell is now a Mega Kill pack available in Dota 2. The catch? He’s only available to those subscribed to Dota +, their monthly subscription service for aiding player improvement. It was announced via this entertaining video of Newell in the recording room.

That’s all for today, folks, thanks for reading! Tune in tomorrow for more news relating to video games! Otherwise, have a great day.

Monday 4-23-18: Night Trap, Ben Brode, and Valve Owns Campo Stanto

By Branden

On April 23, 2018

In daily update, News

The weekend has ended. I was enjoying it, too. Here’s the weekend wrap up

Night Trap on a Nintendo
Hearthstone Game Director Resigns
Valve Acquires Firewatch Devs

Night Trap, dododo do doo. Watch Out Behind You!

It was 25 years ago when the popular Sega game, Night Trap, released in stores. The event caused a newfound controversy with its definitions of violence and sexuality, even though both accounts of such were pretty mild. At the time, Nintendo stated that the game would never come to a Nintendo game system, due to its depiction of violence against women.

Now the game returns with a special 25th-anniversary edition converted for the Nintendo Switch. Developed by Screaming Villians, the game has no confirmed release date.

Ben Brode Leaves Blizzard

Ben Brode, the game director of Hearthstone, has announced his leave this weekend. While having loved his 15 years working for Blizzard, five of which were on Hearthstone, he has decided to pursue other ventures. You can read the full details at his Battle.net post about it.

Campo Santo is a Valve Brand Now

The developers best known for Firewatch, the first-person mystery adventure game, has been picked up by game distribution giant Valve. The studio will still finish their current project, In The Valley of the Gods, uninterrupted, but it will release as a Valve game. It seems Valve has learned that if they can’t make their own games, they can build a nice pile of devs under their umbrella. More details about the aqcuisition can be found on their blog post.

That’s all for today, folks. Check back tomorrow for the next news posting. Also, I wrote a silly article called 13 Heckin Good Boyes in Gaming, it’s about dogs. Check it out! Otherwise, have a great day!

Tuesday 1-2-18: EarthBound Cookbook, VAC Drama, Devs Acquire Devs, and Happy New Year

By Branden

On January 2, 2018

In daily update, News

Tuesday is here and we are official in 2018! Here’s the first news of the year.

EarthBound Inspired Cook Book
Chaos with Steam’s VAC protection
Sumo Digital Acquires CCP Newcastle

EarthBound CookBook
With the new year upon us, I was struggling to find newsworthy content. One thing I managed to dig up is Mother’s Cookbook. This is a book of recipes is inspired by the Nintendo RPG, EarthBound. Made by game-loving chef Bryan Connor, the book’s name is based on the game’s Japanese name, Mother 2. The book contains recipes for items like Down-Home Burgers and Mach Pizza. The Kickstarter for the book has already tripled its goal, with 8 days remaining. You can see Connor’s gaming food blog, lvl 1 chef, here.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/motherscookbook/mothers-cookbook-an-earthbound-inspired-cookbook

VAC Confusion
Recently there was a number of reports that any Linux based Team Fortress 2 players with “catbot” in the name would be automatically banned. The forums in which this was reported had a number of other users confirming this to be true. This caused a mild uproar at the lazy efforts of VAC to inhibit the popularized cheat software, catbot. Later on, an official Valve employee would confirm that this was incorrect. He stated that they are NOT automatically banning the name and that he suspects that this was an effort from the cheating community to build discord and distrust for the anti-cheat system. This is why it’s important to get the facts straight before jumping on the news wagon.

Sumo Digital Acquires CCP Newcastle
The developers of a large number of major titles (Hitman, dead island 2, LittleBigPlanet 3) has acquired studio CCP Newcastle. When financial support was lost towards their last project, the VR space fighting game Eve: Valkyrie, CCP announced that they would be closing and consolidating. Now known as Sumo Digital Newcastle, the focus of the studio remains undeclared. Though I can assume that Eve: Valkyrie will lose support.

Thank you, everyone, for having patience in this holiday time. I look forward to regaining some regularity. One 2018 goal is to have 1 longform article posted to the site here once a month (with 3 longforms for my client site, gamerzunite.com the rest of the month) So stay tuned for that. Be sure to check back tomorrow for the latest and greatest in gaming news. Otherwise, have a great night!

Thursday 12-7-17: PUBG Maps, Portal Games, Steam’s Bitcoin, and Ryan Reynolds

By Branden

On December 7, 2017

In daily update, News

Thursday! I forgot Wednesday. I’m sorry, I guess its been a rough week. here are the last 2 days of gaming:

New PlayerUnknown’s Battleground map
New Portal game??
Steam drops Bitcoin
Ryan Reynolds is Detective Pikachu

PUBG Map
Developers Bluehole has finally released the newest map to the hit battle royale game, Miramar. This desert based map has been in the works for a while now and has been known about for nearly just as long. Despite its contrast to the grassy plains of the original map, Miramar looks to be full of interesting places, all with Spanish names.

Bridge Constructor Portal
Here’s a release no one expected, or asked for really. Valve has announced that in partnership with Headsup Games, they will be releasing a new Portal-themed physics puzzle game called Bridge Constructor Portal. As you guessed, it’s like Bridge Constructor, but with Portals. Many fans are upset at the emotional damage they suffered from getting excited about another Portal game. Regardless of how you feel, you can get this game on December 20 for PC and mobile, with a console version coming next year. You can watch the reveal trailer for it here.

Steam removed Bitcoin
The largest digital game storefront has decided to remove functionality for the largest cryptocurrency. They state the reason is that the currency is simply too volatile, and transactions are becoming too expensive, for it to be a viable transaction option. Its hard to argue with that, considering Bitcoin fees have reached upwards of 20 dollars. Now if you want to buy Steam games, you have to do it the normal way to us plebs.

Ryan Reynolds is Detective Pikachu
It was recently announced that renowned actor, Ryan Reynolds, will be taking the role of Detective Pikachu in the upcoming live-action movie of the same name. This M-Night Shammy level twist sounded like a dream when I first read about it, but it’s as real as it gets. Some fans are upset about Danny Devito not getting the role, a meme that had popularized back when the Detective Pikachu game had released in Japan.

That’s all we have for today, and how bizarre it all is. Check back tomorrow for the last day of this weeks news. Otherwise, have a great night!