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Counterstrike ist nicht wegzudenken. Heute geht's ein paar Runden um Valves Dauerbrenner, jetzt können wir auch sagen: Wir haben es gespielt! Natürlich stellen wir uns auch die Frage, ist der zweite Teil eigentlich notwendig und warum ist es Teil zwei und nicht Teil fünf und wie passt die drei in Valve-Zahlenuniversum? Fragen oder Anregungen dazu? Schreibt uns auf den bekannten Kanälen! Euch gefällt was wir machen? Dann supportet uns durch teilen, liken, abonnieren und kommentieren, denn nur durch eure Unterstützung lebt Retrotastisch.

Valve has just confirmed the arrival of Counter-Strike 2, and it is set to be released sooner than we anticipated. The exact date is yet to be revealed, but the release window is scheduled for the summer of 2023. The game will run on the Source Engine 2 and will be a free upgrade to CS:GO.Valve has also announced that it will be available for limited testing to some CS:GO players, and more details on how to participate will be revealed shortly. The CS2 website states that this release will be the largest technical leap forward in Counter-Strike's history, ensuring new features and updates for years to come.Valve has highlighted some of the key improvements players can expect from CS2, such as upgraded and overhauled maps, game-changing smoke grenades, tick-rate-independent gameplay, and redesigned visual effects and audio. All the overhauled maps will be built from scratch using the new Source 2 tools and rendering features. Additionally, the updated grenades will be able to interact with other gameplay events, expand to fill spaces naturally, and react to lightning.One of the most exciting features for players is that all their CS:GO items will carry over to CS2. Although rumors about the game had already started circulating, this is Valve's first official confirmation, and it has generated a lot of excitement among the Counter-Strike community. With this announcement, it's clear that Valve is committed to delivering a game that builds upon the legacy of Counter-Strike and takes it to new heights.

Inside Apple's companywide cost-cutting push to avoid layoffs. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant lost the A.I. race. Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones. This is crazy and absolutely surreal! I trained an AI on Steve Jobs' voice... Original iPhone sells for over $50,000 in recent auction. European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed. Half-Life 2 Source Engine running natively on Apple Silicon. Apple seeks India labor reform in push to diversify beyond China. Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google. Picks of the Week Doc's Pick: 2023 Universal Smartphone Content Creators Rig Leo's Pick: Polarsteps Andy's Pick: Infuse Video Player Jason's Pick: Camo Studio 2 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Inside Apple's companywide cost-cutting push to avoid layoffs. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant lost the A.I. race. Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones. This is crazy and absolutely surreal! I trained an AI on Steve Jobs' voice... Original iPhone sells for over $50,000 in recent auction. European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed. Half-Life 2 Source Engine running natively on Apple Silicon. Apple seeks India labor reform in push to diversify beyond China. Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google. Picks of the Week Doc's Pick: 2023 Universal Smartphone Content Creators Rig Leo's Pick: Polarsteps Andy's Pick: Infuse Video Player Jason's Pick: Camo Studio 2 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Inside Apple's companywide cost-cutting push to avoid layoffs. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant lost the A.I. race. Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones. This is crazy and absolutely surreal! I trained an AI on Steve Jobs' voice... Original iPhone sells for over $50,000 in recent auction. European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed. Half-Life 2 Source Engine running natively on Apple Silicon. Apple seeks India labor reform in push to diversify beyond China. Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google. Picks of the Week Doc's Pick: 2023 Universal Smartphone Content Creators Rig Leo's Pick: Polarsteps Andy's Pick: Infuse Video Player Jason's Pick: Camo Studio 2 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Inside Apple's companywide cost-cutting push to avoid layoffs. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant lost the A.I. race. Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones. This is crazy and absolutely surreal! I trained an AI on Steve Jobs' voice... Original iPhone sells for over $50,000 in recent auction. European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed. Half-Life 2 Source Engine running natively on Apple Silicon. Apple seeks India labor reform in push to diversify beyond China. Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google. Picks of the Week Doc's Pick: 2023 Universal Smartphone Content Creators Rig Leo's Pick: Polarsteps Andy's Pick: Infuse Video Player Jason's Pick: Camo Studio 2 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Inside Apple's companywide cost-cutting push to avoid layoffs. Carrot Weather gets snarky ChatGPT update. How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant lost the A.I. race. Kremlin tells officials to stop using iPhones. This is crazy and absolutely surreal! I trained an AI on Steve Jobs' voice... Original iPhone sells for over $50,000 in recent auction. European Union hurts Apple again – cannot limit USB Type-C charging speed. Half-Life 2 Source Engine running natively on Apple Silicon. Apple seeks India labor reform in push to diversify beyond China. Microsoft plans mobile games app store to rival Apple and Google. Picks of the Week Doc's Pick: 2023 Universal Smartphone Content Creators Rig Leo's Pick: Polarsteps Andy's Pick: Infuse Video Player Jason's Pick: Camo Studio 2 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Guest: Doc Rock Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: Melissa.com/twit

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we begin a new series on UbiSoft's 2008 series-establishing classic, Far Cry 2. We set it in its time, and talk a bit about shifting engine wars and attendant publisher/developer drama, before briefly getting into the tutorial. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: The Tutorial Issues covered: the UbiSoft open world formula, picking your UbiSoft ur-game, engine wars, branched engine work, getting into or out of the engine game, the open world first person shooter, a brief overview of Clint Hocking's career, games of 2008, grindhouse games, commitment to the first-person aesthetic, picking your character, setting their games in fictional countries, embracing African conflict, expositional value, setting up the chaotic situation, the diagetics of the game, mercenaries coming in, malarial effects, showing the systems, fire propagation, wishing they'd lean into the politics, disclaiming the team diversity to avoid political, having your cake and eating it too, tending to avoid modern realistic settings as players, the sales of the historical era, video game tourism, presenting variables, the diagetic map, the implicit simulated world and how the games get away from that, the onboarding, performance and enemy count and music, gatekeeping around what's a game, games where the interactivity shines through or justifies the choice to make it a game, putting clues together, simple choices that personalize, accretion effects, moments of calm, taking your decisions forward, being forced to the golden path. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: SimCity, Xbox 360, UbiSoft, Prince of Persia, Assassin's Creed (series), Ghost Recon (series), Watch Dogs (series), Rainbow 6 (series), Rayman, Beyond Good & Evil, Michel Ancel, CryTek, CryEngine, Dungeons & Dragons, Crysis, Dunia Engine, Hunt: Showdown, Lumberyard, id Software, Epic Games, Unreal Championship, Quake 4, Source Engine, Clint Hocking, Patrick Redding, Splinter Cell (series), Gotham Knights, Fallout 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld, Eric Lindstrom, Harley Baldwin White-Wiedow, Republic Commando, Left 4 Dead, GTA IV, MGS 4, Devil May Cry 4, Condemned 2: Bloodshot, Alien: Isolation, Rock Band 2, Fable II, Gears of War 2, Little Big Planet, Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Braid, World of Goo, Nintendo Wii, Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros: Brawl, Spore, Army of Two, Kane and Lynch, Wet, BGS/Zenimax, Prince of Persia (2008), Half-Life, The Stanley Parable, Call of Duty (series), Megaman 3, Oliver Uv, mysterydip, Castlevania IV, Final Fantasy VI, Will Wright, Ashton Hermann, The Red Strings Club, Deconstructeam, The Witcher III, Gone Home, Firewatch, The Walking Dead, Uncharted 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Mass Effect, June, Dark Souls, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers, Mark Garcia. Next time: More Far Cry 2 Twitch: brettdouville or timlongojr, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Food delivery business Menulog is set to roll out an employee model for delivery drivers in Australia in a big move to change the poor labour practices of the gig economy. Contractor models have been found to pay less than minimum wages and created poor working conditions and job security. The employee program will begin in the Sydney CBD and the company will work with the Transport Workers Union to set its pay rules.After LG's recent decision to exit the smartphone market, the company has announced a 'three year pledge' to deliver Android OS updates for owners of its handsets that are still out in the market. The promise aims to ensure every owner of its premium model devices will get three major Android system updates from the year they purchased the device. This includes G-series, V-series and VELVET devices from 2019 onward and LG Style and K series phones from 2020.Microsoft has acquired speech technology company Nuance, most famous to many for its Dragon Naturally Speaking software products that enabled high-quality speech to text ahead of many others. The company owns a number of other AI technologies in the space, and was where Apple's Siri originated – even more interesting in light of Microsoft's reduced focus on its AI assistant Cortana. The deal is said to be US$19.7B, Microsoft's fourth big acquisition in recent years after buying game developer ZeniMax, business social network LinkedIn, and software developer platform Github.Nvidia opened its GTC conference overnight, announcing its first CPUs for data centres. NVIDIA Grace CPUs are Arm-based and NVIDIA boasts the processors will be 10x faster than today's fastest servers for AI, neural networks and high performance workloads. NVIDIA also announced new RTX graphics processors for desktops, laptops and workstations for high-end use by artists, designers and engineers.In science, researchers at the Australian National University have applied adaptive optics technology to a new laser system for identifying and removing space debris in Earth's orbit. The system mounts to telescopes and beams visible light to create artificial stars out of space junk for easier identification and removal.In entertainment, Sony has made a deal with Netflix that will break the Disney+ stranglehold on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The deal will see many Sony films go exclusively to Netflix after cinema release for 18-months, and will include Spider-Man and Venom sequels as well as a further Marvel-based film, Morbius. It will also make Netflix the place to find the Uncharted film and Ghostbusters Afterlife.Security research group The Secret Club announced it found a remote code execution flaw in Source Engine video games from developer Valve. Source Engine games include the popular esport shooter Counter Strike Global Offensive. Secret Club says it was reported to Valve five months ago with no response. The flaw is triggered through a Steam invite and loading an infected game server. In the absence of a fix, players are encouraged to disable messages and invites from non-Steam friends.Finally, Australia's most successful esports professional, Ana, is returning to OG to get back into DOTA 2. Ana, originally from Melbourne, has won DOTA's The International twice, part of the only team to have ever achieved the feat in the world's most lucrative esports tournament. The team won in 2018 and 2019 and Ana had retired from the team after the second win. After a recent poor performance by OG at the Singapore Major, Ana's position in the team opened up again and the team announced his return over the weekend. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where this week we continue our series on Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. We delve into Chinatown, touch on some of the level design issues, and revisit some of the thinking of how RPGs and genres were starting to bleed into one another at the time. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Up through Chinatown Issues covered: level design in the Warrens, whether things were fully tested, leaning on what was new in the Source Engine, jamming barrels into spinning bits, sewage tunnels that go nowhere, leaning away from what the game is, likely lack of playtesting, the reservoir tank race, keeping the player on the right track through signalling, the simplicity of telling the player they are doing the right thing, possible solutions for visualization, body horror and the late 90s/early 00s, having to backtrack, being reminded of Lamplighter, enjoying the payoff of the Nosferatu den, having locations for all the clans, the Nosferatu hacker, Tim's choice of fighting style, supporting some styles and not others, trinkets and blood, being unable to visit a location again, being a game unlike others, dissolving genres, experimentation with first-person, expectations of first-person action today, having to teach the player, getting stuck in Chinatown as a player, Brett gets confused about how to get to the Nosferatu, a level design joke, good character design, leaning into a real place, connective tissue and cross-pollination of quest design, mapping that onto a 3D world, the lure of interconnectedness, the quality of the artwork in the tabletop and its translation into the game. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Dungeons & Dragons, Half-Life 2, Valve Software, Fallout 3, Nate Purkeypile, Hackers, Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Thief, System Shock 2, Metroid Prime, Unreal, id Software, Cyberpunk 2077, CD Project Red, The Witcher (series), Gremlins, Blade Runner, The Misfits, Eli Wallach, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, The Good Bad and the Ugly, Hitman, Shenmue, Leonard Boyarsky, Ubisoft, Bethesda Game Studios, Microsoft (obliquely), The Outer Worlds, Tim Cain, Tim Bradstreet, White Wolf, Ralph McQuarrie, Kirk Hamilton, Aaron Evers. Next time: Finish the game! Errata: It's called "Little Lamplight," and its denizens are "Little Lamplighter." That other rose-colored glasses vampire is probably a Toreador. Twitch: brettdouville, instagram:timlongojr, Twitter: @timlongojr and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

After Ubisoft Forward, the open beta for Hyper Scape released. Hyper Scape is the new battle royale from Ubisoft in which 99 players go head to head in a virtual world called Neo Arcadia. It's a fast-paced, urban shooter with a simplistic gameplay style but lots of depth in the maneuverability around the world. The question is...does it have staying power? Brett also plays a wild game called Maneater. You play a little shark that grows up by eating lots of things in brutal ways. It's very intense but a lot of fun to play and surprisingly deeper of an RPG than expected. In the news, we talk about live streams from Devolver Digital and Nacon. We also talk about Marty O'Donnell's feelings about the Activision/Bungie relationship. There is also word that Half-LIfe 3 and Left 4 Dead 3 were in production but got cancelled because Source Engine 2 wasn't far enough along. In the discussion this week, it's all about Ubisoft Forward. They had their first Live Stream of the year and it featured coverage on Watch Dogs Legion, Assassin's Creed Valhalla and the first reveal of Far Cry 6. There wasn't anything new, but it was a lot of great information about these hot, new games.Special thanks to Crazzie Pro Gear. They provided us with some incredible pro-level backpacks for carrying our computer equipment to all our events. If you want a bag yourself, head over to their website to purchase one! A portion of the proceeds go to support The Inner Gamer.Check out video clips of our news every week over on YouTube.Show Notes:3:20 - Hyper Scape25:40 - Maneater36:35 - Devolver Direct, Nacon Direct and Cancellation of Half-Life 31:06:48 - Ubisoft Forward1:40:27 - Upcoming Video Game ReleasesBecome a part of the conversation! Join our Discord server today. If you donate $1 or more you can get exclusive access to the patreon-only chat and channels in the server.The Inner Gamer is a podcast built for the casual gamer. Your weekly dose of video game news, reviews, opinions and discussions every Tuesday. Like what you hear? Share our podcast with your friends! Also be sure and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave us a review! You can find all of our social channels and contact us on The Inner Gamer website.Credits:"Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.netWoman Announcer - Arie Guerra; Actress"Wisdom" by Super Nostalgia 64

Flex Pick ab Minute 00:45 - Intro ab Minute 01:05 - Vorstellung Gast: Alexander Schuster ab Minute 02:00 - Der älteste eSports-Titel ab Minute 06:15 - Source-Engine und Counter-Strike: Source ab Minute 10:55 - Wie funktioniert eigentlich Counter-Strike? ab Minute 18:00 - Bestimmte Fähigkeiten pro eSports ab Minute 21:00 - Die Counter-Strike-Team-Äras ab Minute 26:35 - R6S vs CS:GO - was ist besser? ab Minute 29:12 - Counter-Strike & Boxen - ein Vergleich ab Minute 31:55 - Die besten Spieler in CS:GO ab Minute 43:35 - Verabschiedung

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where we this week we start a new series with a bit of a different goal: a game we'll play for an initial couple of episodes and then return to from time to time. We discuss 2004's seminal and crowning MMORPG World of Warcraft, discussing the year in which it came out, a history (personal and not) of MMOs, and then dig a bit into the initial hours of the game. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: Up until level 8 Issues covered: revisiting our chat with John Romero, looking at 2004 in games, a live game model in EverQuest, self-cannibalization, early history of MUDs, a sad discovery, reflecting on Brad McQuaid's career, sharing games as source, MUDs and theming, talking through the history of a number of MMOs, talking about the market and approachability of other MMOs, peak users, the influence of other Blizzard games on WoW, Brett's confession, introducing characters through the RTS, modding and Warcraft III, launch and WoW, pulling the games from the shelves, server queues, revenue gross, Brett does some on-the-fly math, Activision-Blizzard merger, the starting area for gnomes and dwarves, inviting you into the world like a DM, learning the design language of the game, usability of the quest system, shifting the focus to quests (vs combat grinding), doing multiple things with the quests and rewards, changing your character's look, each race having its own animation set, differentiating races strongly, pre-rendered introduction, RTS influence again, seeing your first human (on a horse), simplifying WoW in the modern version, having to read the text to understand where to go, adding user interface mods, increasing intrinsic reward through difficulty, managing your own grouping, growing the scale of what you see, scale of towns and villages, growing up with the world through exploration, experience ramp. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: John Romero, LucasArts, Republic Commando, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Half-Life 2, DOOM 3, Metal Gear Solid 3, Fable, Halo 2, Far Cry, Chronicles of Riddick, Katamari Damacy, Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines, Source Engine, Troika Entertainment, Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, The Outer Worlds, EverQuest & EverQuest II, 989 Studios, Sony Online Entertainment, Rob Pardo, MUD, Roy Trubshaw, Richard Bartle, DikuMUD, Brad McQuaid, Zork, Adventure, MOO, Pantheon, Saga of Heroes, Habitat, LucasFilm Games, Randy Farmer, Chip Morningstar, Meridian 59, Ultima Online, Dark Age of Camelot, Asheron's Call, Raph Koster, Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Underworld, Turbine Entertainment, Lord of the Rings Online, Mythic, EA, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Blizzard, Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Bill Roper, Diablo, David Brevik, Warcraft III, Chris Metzen, DotA, Icefrog, Riot Games, Dark Souls. Next time: To level 20 https://twitch.tv/brettdouville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

Welcome to Dev Game Club, where in this bonus episode we've turned to a clear descendant of Deus Ex, 2017's Prey. We talk about the first few hours of the experience and note some of its systems and world-building, among other thoughts. Dev Game Club looks at classic video games and plays through them over several episodes, providing commentary. Sections played: At least up to the lobby Issues covered: post-it notes, allowing mimics, Tim gets excited, another potential forerunner, using the Goo Gun to get to an apparently unreachable area, analysis paralysis, not knowing which way to go, being surprised that the payoff was delayed, trying to reach beyond the normal market (and people who understand the tropes), the erased whiteboard code, psi hypos in the safe, surprise CryEngine, looking at the map, setting up Alex as a villain, waking up again, room inside a room, commitment to first-person presentation, visual design of the PDA, putting in the neuromod, contextualizing neuromods, use of body horror, mimic design and creepiness, mod for inhabiting any prop, using audio design to enhance creepiness, breeding paranoia, wanting to look at and enjoy the world but anything could be a threat, fighting the bigger typhon, being less inclined to stealth because combat is expected, themes, choice of gender here, going wide vs deep in skill choices, the resource collection mechanics, what can you scavenge, crafting and how far you go in the resources, the origin of 0451 and immersive sims, the A113 Easter Egg, alternate histories, clear lineage in immersive sims, the rough road for immersive sim makers, importance of setting, critical vs commercial appeal, what genre do you put this game in critically, production design choices, living in-between and pushing other genres forward, Hong Kong the shelf-level event, the killswitches, being old as dirt, wanting more guns, maintaining tension through resource levels, hoarding weapons, FOMO. Games, people, and influences mentioned or discussed: Legend of Zelda, Arkane Studios, Bethesda Game Studios, ZeniMax, Bioshock, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Looking Glass, Half-Life, Portal, Dishonored (series), CryEngine, id Software, Raphael Colantonio, Harvey Smith, Groundhog Day, Mission: Impossible, Dead Space, Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Republic Commando, Counterstrike, Garry's Mod, Team Fortress II, Source Engine, Alien: Isolation, Fallout 4, Tacoma, Fahrenheit 451, Pixar, Disney, Battlezone, Ricardo Bare, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, Origin, ION Storm, Irrational Games, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Viktor Antonov, Philip Staffetius, Kevin Brown, Halo, Wumpus, Hammurabi, Sanders Associates, Ralph Baer, ADVENT.EXE, Pipe Dream, Thief, Resident Evil. Corrections: Turns out, Dishonored II was idTech 5 Next time: For those looking at the show notes, advance notice: We'll be playing 1996's Tomb Raider, the first four levels (Peru). (Looking out for you show notes readers. My people. -B) @brett_douville, @timlongojr, and @devgameclub DevGameClub@gmail.com

The Chinese Room was founded by husband and wife duo, Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. As writer and composer, Pinchbeck and Curry have led their studio to BAFTA wins for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and helped define a genre with Dear Esther, a title that started life as a Source Engine mod. That latter title was in part a response to Pinchbeck's frustration with games academia of the time, which he felt was too preoccupied with the theory of game design and not enough with the practical application of ideas. He's kept a foot in the academic world thanks to his position as visiting lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, and ongoing discussions with PhD students. And that's where we kick off this week's hour-long chat, with discussion of The Chinese Room's ties to the world outside of the day-to-day running of a successful indie studio. Later in the episode we talk about the delivery of story through game play, the danger of deskilling over the course of a long project, and Pinchbeck's frustration with the heavy focus on frame-rates and the technical minutiae of game creation. First though, we start with him talking about the joy of public speaking and keeping a hand in the wider discussion surrounding game design. Brought to you by the writers and creators of Independent By Design: Art & Stories of Indie Game Creation, the Indie By Design Podcast (IBD) is the show that goes behind the scenes to explore the world of game design and game designers. Visit us at indiebydesign.net - Twitter: @indiebydesign - Facebook/independentbydesign Music by Ben Prunty.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Chinese Room was founded by husband and wife duo, Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. As writer and composer, Pinchbeck and Curry have led their studio to BAFTA wins for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and helped define a genre with Dear Esther, a title that started life as a Source Engine mod. That latter title was in part a response to Pinchbeck’s frustration with games academia of the time, which he felt was too preoccupied with the theory of game design and not enough with the practical application of ideas. He’s kept a foot in the academic world thanks to his position as visiting lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, and ongoing discussions with PhD students. And that’s where we kick off this week’s hour-long chat, with discussion of The Chinese Room’s ties to the world outside of the day-to-day running of a successful indie studio. Later in the episode we talk about the delivery of story through game play, the danger of deskilling over the course of a long project, and Pinchbeck’s frustration with the heavy focus on frame-rates and the technical minutiae of game creation. First though, we start with him talking about the joy of public speaking and keeping a hand in the wider discussion surrounding game design. Brought to you by the writers and creators of Independent By Design: Art & Stories of Indie Game Creation, the Indie By Design Podcast (IBD) is the show that goes behind the scenes to explore the world of game design and game designers. Visit us at indiebydesign.net - Twitter: @indiebydesign - Facebook/independentbydesign Music by Ben Prunty.    See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Released in 2004, Half-Life 2 ushered PC games into a new generation. It brought with it the highly flexible Source Engine (a game engine so versatile that highly modified versions of it are still used for modern AAA games like Titanfall), and necessitated PC users to install Steam (at the time a highly controversial move that helped launch the platform into ubiquity). The shooter focused on the adventures of scientist-turned-hero Gordan Freeman and his attempts to stay alive in a strange future in which humanity has been conquered by an alien race known as the Combine.  Rise and shine, listeners. Rise and... shine... and let us know if you think Half-Life 2 remains one of the best games period well over a decade after release. Outro music: Half-Life 2 'I Tried' by Redg (https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR02931) You can follow the show on Twitter: @BestGamesPeriod Or download the podcast from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/thebestgamesperiod Support us on Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/bestgamesperiod

Valve once again screwed all of us over with the lack of a Half­-Life 3 announcement, but that's okay since Source Engine 2 was announced! We break down the non­-announcement, along with a ton of other news, ranging from the MGSV release date and Rock Band 4 being officially announced along with our review of Kirby and the Rainbow Curse. This week's episode is brought to you us by a BRAND NEW sponsor: GreenManGaming.com! The best way to buy PC games online is through Green Man Gaming. Take advantage of the VIP and weekly 20% off codes by making all of your PC gaming purchases through the link on TheGamingMarathon.com!

On this episode, Maxis shuts down, Source Engine 2 is announced, the final Steam Controller is revealed, Wolfenstein is getting a stand alone expansion, Evolve is getting an observer mode, and a Tropico 5 PS4 release date. complex.computer

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Podcast 10 featuring: Starcraft 2, Source Engine, Mass Effect 4, Tomb Raider, Black Ops 2 shipment issues, and much much more gaming news! So listen in and send feedback to info@gametangents.com

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Tony, James, Josh and Darren are your panel for two contrasting titles. Strange Loop’s Vessel is a puzzle-platformer with a steampunk aesthetic and an emphasis on physics. While thechineseroom’s Source Engine adventure Dear Esther exists almost entirely […] The post Vessel / Dear Esther – Cane and Rinse No.34 appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

Featuring: Michael "Boston" Hannon, John "Knobs" Knoblach, and Ryan Pratt Running Time: 1:07:07 Music: Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves In this episode of shortcast, we chat about Tiger 13, Portal 2, Grand Prix Story, and Fez. Steam and Origin account bans are a little more lenient Adam Sessler leaves G4 and X-Play Steam and the Source Engine being ported to Linux