Today Valve’s Doug Lambardi released the official PC system requirements in response to some incorrect rumors floating around on the internets. These are the actual requirements, straight from the box:
Today, many of us woke up to the incredible rumor that Google was planning on purchasing video game developer Valve. While this may be a geek’s dream, it was highly unlikely that this was actually true. Sure enough, Valve’s head PR guy has come out and said that this rumor is a “complete fabrication,” in an email to Stephen Totilo from MTV Multiplayer.
Just to make sure Lombardi wasn’t being cagey, I asked if it’s be correct if we posted that (my words) “Valve says Google isn’t buying the company.” He said that would be correct. So… no sale!
According to Gabe Newell, Valve’s upcoming zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead , will be pushed back to November 20th to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the original Half-Life.
Left 4 Dead was originally planned to release on November 4th. Newell revealed the new delay at Leipzig 08.
In a recent interview Valve’s Doug Lambardi said Valve developing on the Playstation 3 may be possible despite past claims that the Playstation 3 is a “waste of time” by Gabe Newell, head of Valve.
“We’re always evaluating what’s happening in the marketplace and certainly something that’s happening in the last couple of months is that Sony’s managed to sell some boxes. So whether or not you like developing for that platform, if they’ve got millions of people connected to that platform and buying their games you have to take it seriously.”
Valve, in all their awesomeness, has been trying to release all new TF2 content to the consoles free of charge, unfortunately Microsoft doesn’t feel the same way. Valve Founder, Gabe Newell says the console gaming model is getting in the way. “The big concern I have right now is our ability to provide updates. On the PC side, we’ve done as many as four updates in a day, and that’s great: we can respond very quickly.” says Newell at GC08 to videogaming247.
If Nvidia puts out a new graphics driver and it changes some way about how texture management works, then before our customers know there’s any issue then the problem has gone away. Or we can do the Pyro updates, and the Medic updates [and so on]. Read the full story
