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Half-Life 2 Black Box, which contained Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, was intended for those who didn't want to shell out for Half-Life 2 and Episode One. Look like they don't have a choice now.

"The Black Box has been cancelled," Doug Lombardi, Valve's director of marketing, said to IGN. "We're going to have one package, The Orange Box, available on the PC (US$49.99) as well as the 360 and PS3 (US$ 59.99). In addition to the three new products -- Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Half-Life: Episode Two -- The Orange Box will also contain the full version of Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One.

"Those who purchase the PC version of The Orange Box will get three separate Steam product codes: One for the three new games, one for HL2, and one for Episode One. This way a PC Orange Box owner can give away their Half-Life 2 or Episode One unused Steam product codes if they don't need a copy of those games. We are excited to deliver the highest value of new gaming content ever offered in one box." ...

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Half-Life 2 Black Box, which contained Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2, was intended for those who didn't want to shell out for Half-Life 2 and Episode One. Look like they don't have a choice now.

"The Black Box has been cancelled," Doug Lombardi, Valve's director of marketing, said to IGN. "We're going to have one package, The Orange Box, available on the PC (US$49.99) as well as the 360 and PS3 (US$ 59.99). In addition to the three new products -- Portal, Team Fortress 2, and Half-Life: Episode Two -- The Orange Box will also contain the full version of Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One.

"Those who purchase the PC version of The Orange Box will get three separate Steam product codes: One for the three new games, one for HL2, and one for Episode One. This way a PC Orange Box owner can give away their Half-Life 2 or Episode One unused Steam product codes if they don't need a copy of those games. We are excited to deliver the highest value of new gaming content ever offered in one box." ...

Quake has released a new version of his Organiser for PSP, this release has some bugfixes over previous versions.

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Hi,

I spent another long day making a preview video of one of my upcoming releases. It is almost done, and I just want to polish it a little more.

Here is the background of the game:
After a long double shift at work, to your suprise, your co-workers threw a party. They wanted to celebrate your raise at work, a reward for those long hours you work. But now, tired and quite drunk, you're objective is simple. Leave the building, to get to the subway, and go home to sleep it off. The only problem is that the elevators are broken, and this is a big office building.

Too drunk to find your way out alone, ask helpful people for directions. Staggering around, try to avoid frightening the people who might help you. Although strangely you get points for frightening them. Somehow if you get sober before you get home you will lose, from the depressing realization that you must be an alcholholic.



A top down 2D game, which features:
- 6 playable levels
- full level editor
- 3 types of collectables
- over 50 non-player characters to interact with (some help you, some insult you but give you points)
- particle effects on picking up things
- cool sound track

here are the full credits:


Credits
Programming: hardhat, a_nub
Levels: hardhat
Graphics: birdman2078, hardhat, a_nub, Meyitzo, Zion
Sounds: WernerVonBraun, meanrabbit.com
Music: Music: http://www.mono211.com/modsoulbrother/ These works are licensed under a Creative Commons License with the full permission of Aleksi 'Heatbeat' Eeben, aka Antti Mikkonnen. (CC-Attribution-Non-commercial-No Derivatives).
Testing: hardhat, PSPJunkie, Zion, Wally, PSPdemon, legendpaul, Meyitzo, Whazilla
Fonts: Sprite Slicer with Font Mechanic
PSPSDK: ps2dev.org ...

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DevInside Team:
Madcupid
Dead Angel
RichardV

Hey everyone!!! I'm really proud to announce my second game coded(the first one was Pro Foosball, which will be updated soon) and the first DevInside Team Project.
Please READ this whole post before posting!!!
First, what is T.O.W.? It's a shooter wherein you fly an F-15 to take down the enemies for avengence(see story).
Well, before any comments, let me explain something real quick. The idea of the game came up in a conversation between me and RichardV, which was to make a game not too complex in game play, but rather, something simple and classic looking sort of like Space Invaders, River Raid, or Galaga where all you do is just shoot the enemies down( i mean, no different weapons, or different things popping up on the screen like speed-up items, bonuses and stuff). So, the game is that!!! However, it does have a lot of different things though. Here's

what's in T.O.W. v0.1:

*Diagonal Scrolling (we though it'd be different homebrew wise)
*Story (interesting in our opinion)
*14 Levels (meaning 14 different backgrounds)
*1 Recovery Level (where you have a chance to go back to the game if all lives were lost)
*19 different types of enemies( maybe more coming)
*Highscore/
*Save/load/delete files (invented a new code for that, i think)
*Extra lives every 25000 points
*Extra special(bomb) every 15000 points
*Final grade from "F" to "A+++" (total of 15)
*Take a screenshot of highscore screen, gameplay(any level) and final results screen(total kills, final score, final grade and more)

-- the game looks like this
--menu
STORY MODE
NEW GAME
LOAD GAME (3 slots)
TRAINING MODE
CHOOSE A LEVEL ( practive to get better)
OPTIONS
MANAGE HIGHSCORES ( reset highscores [8])
MANAGE FILES (delete saved games)
GAME TUTORIAL (explains the whole game, tips)
CONTROLS (you all know this)
CREDITS (and this too)
MUSIC VOLUME (choose from 1 to 5)
EXIT

--game
D-PAD or ANALOG - Move around
SQUARE - Shoot
CIRCLE - Special (bomb will explode every enemy)
TRIANGLE - Take a screenshot
CROSS - Not used (yet, it might be though)
SELECT - Save/Load Menu
START - Pause Menu (resume game, Music on or off, quit)
L - Decrease speed
R - Increase speed

-- levels

LEVEL 1 - AREA 51 (easiest one, obviously)
LEVEL 2 - THE RED CANYON
LEVEL 3 - THE RAIND FOREST
LEVEL 4 - THE ROCK BOTTOM
LEVEL 5 - BRICK CITY
LEVEL 6 - THE SNOW-COVERED PARADISE
LEVEL 7 - THE GREY SEA ( the shortest one)
LEVEL 8 - THE DEEP WATERS
LEVEL 9 - HIGH SKIES
LEVEL 10 - THE MATRIX (my favorite)
LEVEL 11 - THE 4TH DIMENSION
LEVEL 12 - THE DREAM GALAXY (the hardest one after last)
LEVEL 13 - THE FIRE PIT
LEVEL 14 - THE INFERNO (last one)
RECOVERY LEVEL - THE BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

-- and more...

I put a lot of work into this but there still mey be bugs i'm not aware of so i would appreciate it if you guys could try it out and report the bugs you find for it's only v0.1.

As of now i'm working on:

-Game Tutorial (not in this version yet)
-Different enemy movement (only changed a few levels)
-Bosses at the end of some levels
-A nice story ending when game is finished
-Bugs (if any found)
-More sounds and music, art and grafx, and eboot(add another image)
-New credits screen
-other improvements and more...

The game is not really hard, i finished it on my first attemp through the whole thing!!! It will get harder in the next versions. I would say the code was 100% original but i did use the bullet system (from Evilmana,not sure who actually wrote it) and the centeredText function( also from Evilmana and thanks to them). Other than that i created a lot of stuff like the save and load codes, extra lives, how to "dribble" the dofiles, bla bla bla...thanks in advance to everyone who will download it and to Dead Angel and RichardV (DevInside) who helped me get through this!!! :thumbup:

Here are some screenshots and videos!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abgHYBUrse4

P.S. there's a cheat somewhere in the game, see if you can figure it out (hey, no reading my codes,hehe)

Here's the download link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/32387872..._v0.1.zip.html ...

jojodu0010 has released a new game for the PSP called Duck Hunt, heres the translated info:


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The concept of PAIN was derived from an extensive teen market research report. The findings of the report indicated that comedy, random chaos, creativity, community and competition were the central figures driving entertainment choices for the teen audience.

PAIN is much more than a game, it’s actually a creative, user-driven comedic experience that presents players with the unique opportunity to control and capture the irreverent style of humor found in television shows such as Jackass or Viva La Bam. The game boldly tackles a rarely explored area of video-gaming… comedy. Many games and products have allowed players to experience scripted, comedic scenes, but none have successfully allowed the end-user to actually be the architect of these situations… until now.

One thing is certain; gamers have never seen anything quite like PAIN…

The core, unique mechanic of the game allows the player to load a character into an extreme launching device, such as a human-sized, ultra-powerful slingshot, and fire the character into an active, physics-controlled environment, filled with precarious and humorous situations. The player receives points by stringing together painful collisions and inducing chaos in the environment. The player must achieve a wide variety of goals and / or reach various scoring milestones in each of the different modes of play.

Available exclusively via download on the PLAYSTATION Network for the PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) computer entertainment system, PAIN will feature a robust online community where players will be able to upload and share their comedic experiences; while other users can rank and comment on the content shared within the community.

KEY FEATURES

* Based on a teen research report indicating that chaos, comedy, creativity, and community are central themes to their entertainment choices, PAIN is the first game of its kind that allows the gamer to be the architect of theses comedic episodes.
* Multiple playable characters each with a very unique personality and attributes as well as character specific in-flight poses.
* Dozens of ways to play – over 9 different ways to play single player alone, including modes like Spank the Monkey and Mime Toss. With multiplayer modes like HORSE and online competition, PAIN provides both the challenges and the replayability gamers are searching for.
* Completely Interactive Gameplay Environment – regardless of what the player does within the PAIN thematic, the overall environment remains completely dynamic and fully destructible, waiting for the player to find new ways to create chaos, comedy or simply wait to see what happens next.
* Each time a player launches into the PAINful environment, the physics and animation data is stored on PS3’s HDD allowing the player to view a replay instantly. With control over various camera angles and the replay speed – slow motion and fast forward – users can edit and re-record each bruising launch.
* Unique physics model created on Havok powered events, allow for amazing ragdoll animations, while insuring that duplicating incidents is almost impossible. Keeping gameplay fresh over and over no matter how many times a player is launched into the same environment.
* Available exclusively via the PLAYSTATION Network, PAIN will have a robust online community feature set that will include: head-to- head and cooperative gameplay, leaderboards, the ability to upload and download user generated replays, and contests.
* With PAIN’s modular backbone, the game is made to expand. More characters, more themes, more gameplay modes and most importantly more PAINful fun! ...

In order to get the DVD Playback to work on the Nintendo Wii, you will need a modified console with a modchip. So far, it has only been tested with WiiKey with all other modchips to be tested on soon.

- There is no ETA until WiiVision can confirm all attributes are fully functioning. When there are ETA's and when that time comes, people will be complaining and spreading rumors. So he would like to avoid this.
- The app will allow you to play original single layer DVD movies (store bought movies).
- The app will also work in ANY region of Wii fitted with ANY modchip that is capable of booting GC homebrew.
- The app supports both standard and widescreen TV/DVD formats.



Since the application is run via GC Homebrew, you will need a GameCube controller to operate the controls of the DVD UI. There is no way to run Wii Homebrew as of right now. Once there is, things will probably change.


Here is a link to the video. Its kind of grainy due to crappy webcam but still visible and WiiVision talks about it.

Source: WiiNewz

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