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News - E3: Valve's Lombardi On What Happened To Turtle Rock
In the year leading up to the release of Left 4 Dead , Valve acquired longtime collaborator Turtle Rock Studios, the team that spawned the co-op shooter and worked alongside Valve to complete it. The studio -- founded by Counter-Strike AI bot creator Michael Booth -- was renamed Valve South and ...
: Group :: L4D2 Boycott
: Group :: L4D2 Boycott
steamcommunity.com — Boycotting Valve's new money grab Since June 1, 2009 The few people here who defend the decision... to make L4D2 seem to not understand what everyone is upset about. I've tried to summarize the most common issues I've heard people having in hopes that it ... (more) : Group :: L4D2 Boycott
Valve Shuts out “Too Complicated” PS3
Valve Shuts out “Too Complicated” PS3
loot-ninja.com — At E3 while checking out Left 4 Dead 2, I had a chance to talk to a... few of the game’s developers at Valve. Amongst questions about the game, I snuck in a bit asking why Valve won’t develop for the PS3. It’s not because they’re ... (more) Valve Shuts out “Too Complicated” PS3
Before its time? Valve explains Left 4 Dead sequel to Ars
Before its time? Valve explains Left 4 Dead sequel to Ars
arstechnica.com — Sitting across the table from me was Chet Faliszek. He was one of the project leads on... Left 4 Dead . I was sitting with my arms crossed, and I told him how much I love Left 4 Dead . He told me how much he enjoys Ars Technica. We have ... (more) Before its time? Valve explains Left 4 Dead sequel to Ars
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On Turtle Rock/Valve South
Blue's NewsGamasutra has an E3 chat with Valve's Doug Lombardi to clear up the status of Turtle Rock Studios, the developer acquired by Valve during development of Left 4 Dead. For a while the team operated out of Irvine, CA as "Valve South." This arrangement no longer exists, but Lombardi explains that this does not mean they actually closed the studio, as things were a little looser than that, and after L4D was complete, the remote office complicated the process of moving people onto different projects: After several members of the Valve South team -- which Lombardi described ...

E3 Round-Up: Major Publishers, Developers Speak
GameSetWatch — ... Studios, and get an update on Warren Spector's Junction Point studio, its project, and how Disney's creative process is allowing Spector's creativity to flourish." E3: Ubisoft's Detoc Looks To Game, Film Convergence "Ubisoft is looking decidedly to the future -- new announcements at E3 have shed light on CEO Yves Guillemot's cryptic predictions, and now NA boss Laurent Detoc talks about why film and game tech is getting "more and more close every year." E3: Valve's Lombardi On What Happened To Turtle Rock "Left 4 Dead creator Valve South, ...

EA Shockwaves: Pandemic Studios Dissolved
GayGamer.net — ... (Conflict series), and Turtle Rock (Counter-Strike: Source, Left 4 Dead), among others. It's not a good time to be a lone dev out in the world with no safety net or larger brand to help try and find work for one's experienced employees in other studios. As long as a company is run in relative sanity, with healthy doses of ...

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developer.valvesoftware.com 6/20/2009 — From Valve Developer Community Jump to: navigation , search Welcome to the Valve Developer Community. Whether you're building a "Triple-A" commercial project or a mod for Half-Life® 2 , you'll want to sign up as a Valve developer today. It's free to ...
Valve On L4D2: “Trust Us A Little Bit”
rockpapershotgun.com 6/4/2009 — There has been, it seems, something of a fuss over the announcement from Valve that they’re releasing a sequel to Left 4 Dead this November. The main point of contention has been that many were expecting more new content to be added to the ...
News - E3: Valve Talks Left 4 Dead 2's Quick Sequel Strategy
gamasutra.com 6/4/2009 — Valve's big E3 announcement -- that last year's hit Left 4 Dead would be followed up with a PC and Xbox 360 sequel this year -- was a surprise coming from a studio that has never delivered a full sequel in such a short timeframe. It was made even ...
Left 4 Dead Preview
uk.pc.ign.com 3/5/2009 — March 4, 2009 - If the names Zoey, Francis, Bill, and Louis don't mean much to you, then you probably haven't played the exceptional shooter Left 4 Dead . But if they trigger memories of gunning down endless hordes of zombies and desperately fighting ...
Left 4 Dead Preview
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Valve Release Left 4 Dead Mod Tools [PC]
kotaku.com 5/16/2009 — Those wanting to build their own take on the zombie apocalypse are being well looked after today, with Valve announcing an open beta for Left 4 Dead 's software development kit. If you jump to the "tools" tab in Steam, you'll see it available for ...
10,000 gamers boycott Left 4 Dead 2
examiner.com 6/7/2009 — After Valve announced Left 4 Dead 2 at last week's E3, many gamers gamers were surprised by the news.  One group of gamers, however, aren't taking it so well.  A community group on Steam (Valve's game download service), calling themselves L...
“Left 4 Dead 2″ play testing in Valve’s future
thatvideogameblog.com 5/20/2009 — TVGB’s inboxes have been graced by forwarded emails that suggest Valve is getting ready to do some play testing for Left 4 Dead 2 . Yeah, considering that L4D was released just six months ago, seeing that voluptuous “2″ at the end of “ Left 4 Dead ” drew out a ...
Valve writer: L4D2 has too much new stuff to be an add-on
thatvideogameblog.com 6/10/2009 — Left 4 Dead 2 is a bit of a mystery to me. While watching Microsoft’s E3 press conference I was blown away to see a trailer for a new L4D game; The first one hasn’t even been out a year, and already a new one has been in the works we find out. Perhaps what shocked me just as ...
Left 4 Dead: An Autopsy
edge-online.com 2/18/2009 — By the time you read this column, 2008 will be receding into memory. Nevertheless, I wanted to cap off a remarkable year in gaming with a closer look at the co-op zombie apocalypse shooter Left 4 Dead. Valve’s attention to detail and high ...
Left 4 Dead 2: Voodoo Extreme Hands-On PreviewVoodoo Extreme 6/3/2009
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E3: L4D2 secret multiplayer still to comeComputer And Video Games 6/3/2009
Sequel "a much larger game than the original", says Valve. Left 4 Dead 2 is already on top of our most wanted list of games this year, but Valve's still got more up its sleeves for the sequel. Click here to read the full article
E3: L4D mods work with L4D2Computer And Video Games 6/4/2009
Current SDK tools fully compatible with the sequel. Players who create mods for Left 4 Dead on PC will be able to carry their handy work over to Left 4 Dead 2 when it launches on November 17, Valve's Doug Lombardi has told us. Click here to read ...
News: E3: Valve explains L4D2 exclusivityEurogamer 6/4/2009
And won't stop supporting the first one. Valve has said that Left 4 Dead 2's Xbox 360 console exclusivity has more to do with the developer's background than anything else. "We don't have a ton of experience internally building products ...
E3: No more DLC for L4D 1?Computer And Video Games 6/4/2009
Valve man Chet Faliszek weighs up the odds. Left 4 Dead 2 is out on November 17. So does that spell the end for DLC for the original, which is still fairly young? Click here to read the full article