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Half-Life 1 / CS Patch Released

By Maarten Goldstein, Mar 06, 2007 7:20am PST

According to the Steam website, a new update is now available for players of Half-Life 1 and the original Counter-Strike. The engine now allows you...

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"You mean like the "Do not update this game automatically" option every game has when you ..."

- Sapiens see all 15 comments

Steam Updates

By Maarten Goldstein, Jan 18, 2007 7:10am PST

According to the Steam website, a Steam client update is now available. It fixes an occasional hang on startup, IP sorting, responsiveness of the...

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"finally the favorites and history fixed! I sent a few bug reports over the months of that ..."

- T.I.E. see all 3 comments

Marc Laidlaw Q&A

By Maarten Goldstein, Dec 24, 2006 2:15pm PST

Over at Computer & Video Games you can find a Q&A with Valve's Marc Laidlaw. Questions focus on the Gordon Freeman and G-Man characters, and...

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"When you go out on a date with Mark, you get laid, and thats... the law"

- et72 see all 4 comments

Valve Software Interview

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 02, 2005 4:59am PDT

1UP's Valve coverage concludes today with a two part (one, two) Gabe Newell interview in which he talks about his company, the industry and the...

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"From all the info i've read from Carmack, Gabe and then the anonymous source article on Anand ..."

- thesubtlesnake see all 4 comments

Half-Life: Blue Shift Now On Steam

By Maarten Goldstein, Aug 24, 2005 3:40pm PDT

As expected, Half-Life Blue Shift is now available on Steam. It is available for people who own Half-Life 1, the Half-Life 2 Silver package, or the...

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"but yea on a side note, before i bought hl2:silver, i put in my hl1:bs cd key, and it unlocked ..."

- voique see all 60 comments

Half-Life, Counter-Strike Updates

By Maarten Goldstein, Aug 09, 2005 6:15am PDT

Valve has released updates for the original Half-Life and Counter-Strike, offering some game changes and exploit fixes as outlined on the Steam...

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"And that VAC2 stuff is just for Half-Life 1. It seems all these fixes are for the old engine. ..."

- famine101 see all 8 comments

Half-Life 1 Engine Update

By Maarten Goldstein, Jun 07, 2005 5:28pm PDT

The Steam website notes an engine update is now available for Half-Life 1. It fixes several exploits, and also changes the master server query...

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"No joke, why else would they update an engine that is older than me :S"

- uh dead see all 18 comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Released

By Maarten Goldstein, Mar 06, 2005 6:07am PST

The final release of Natural Selection 3.0 is now available, offering a ton of changes over beta 5 (full changelog is here). You can find a mirror...

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"Alright, I've been out of NS for quite a while now, but now that this is final I think I'll get ..."

- crummynz see all 15 comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Q&A

By Maarten Goldstein, Feb 25, 2005 5:14am PST

Also on Computer Games Magazine's website today is a Q&A with Charlie Cleveland of Unknown Worlds. Version 3.0 of the company's Natural Selection...

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"if they take that path, i fear alot of people will be constantly bitching at the gfx (like the ..."

- ballystix see all 9 comments

Steam Update

By Maarten Goldstein, Jan 07, 2005 4:26am PST

A new update for Steam has been released, updating both the application itself, the Source engine in general and the Half-Life 1 Dedicated Server....

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"all it has to do is check for updates - it can then give the option to actually update."

- captfarrell see all 15 comments

Natural Selection 3.0 Beta 5 Released

By Maarten Goldstein, Sep 04, 2004 8:35am PDT

The guys at Unknown Worlds Entertainment have released the latest Natural Selection 3.0 beta, whicn you can grab from FileShack. The new release...

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"I heard there was some thing that the NS team had against valve that meant they wouldn't do a ..."

- xenoeye see all 26 comments

Half-Life: Source Screenshot

By Maarten Goldstein, Aug 27, 2004 12:42pm PDT

Over at Halflife2.net you can find two screenshots which show you what the Source engine port of Half-Life 1 will look like. The game hasn't been...

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"I think it will be free with Half-Life 2. Or perhaps to all half-life (1) owner via steam?.."

- melt_core see all 47 comments

WON Shutdown Soon

By Maarten Goldstein, Jul 15, 2004 4:20pm PDT

We received an email from Valve, announcing that WON authentication servers will be shut down soon. After this operation is done (should be by July...

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"Couldn't this be circumvented with some clever third party tool? Like a WON-emulator or ..."

- evildanish see all 67 comments

New Firearms Release

By Maarten Goldstein, May 24, 2004 7:57am PDT

Version 2.9 of the Firearms mod for Half-Life has been released, adding three new maps and two new weapons among other things. We have the Windows...

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Codename Gordon Released

By Maarten Goldstein, May 18, 2004 8:39am PDT

Valve sent along a note announcing that Codename Gordon is now available on Steam. Codename Gordon is a side scrolling game featuring levels...

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