Nuclear Monster

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  • Great interview with Gooseman

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    After four years in North America, I ran out of money and a friend of mine encouraged me to come to Korea as he told me there would be many opportunities to market my game there and fund development. I spent the next two-plus years working in Korea with some really experienced programmers and some…

  • Summary of Phoronix/Steam/Linux Situation

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    thanks to Nemoder for the graphic and Phoronix for ragging on Steam + Linux + UT3 non-stop.

  • Tom Francis, His Gnome, and Left 4 Dead 2

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    In the Dark Carnival campaign of Left 4 Dead 2, you can win a garden gnome at the fairground near the start — and there’s an achievement for carrying it all the way to the end. It is, in fact, the same goddamn gnome I carried through Episode goddamn Two, for the same goddamn reason:…

  • Steamy Sales

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    Steam has a sale going on for all three Company of Heroes titles including the new game (Tales of Valor) at $40, Peggle Complete, including Nights and the original Peggle Deluxe ($10), and 50% off all Strategy First titles, including a discount on the pack which includes all of their games on Steam ($74.99).

  • Left 4 Dead Updates

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    Valve updated Left 4 Dead today with some great gameplay changes. One of which corrects my personal pet-peeve with the Boomer; his vomit will sometimes be deflected by normal infected who get in the way. Full list of changes: Game and client changes Introduced fatigue to the melee attack in versus mode. You will see…