Episode 20: The Orange Box
October 21st, 2007 by Bob SomersFile Mirrors
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This week’s podcast features the following on-air personalities:
- Bob Somers - SteamPodcast.com
- Ramzy Bekheet - SteamPodcast.com
1337 C4T of Episode 20
This Week’s New Releases
All scores are from MetaCritic.
- Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis - Wii - 69% (5 Reviews)
- Folklore - PS3 - 75% (30 Reviews)
- Luminous Arc - DS - 69% (19 Reviews)
- Crash of the Titans - PSP, DS, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360 - 69% (5 Reviews)
- Fury - PC - No Reviews Available
- Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground - PS2, Wii, PS3, DS, Xbox 360 - 74% (11 Reviews)
- Race Driver: Create & Race - DS - 77% (9 Reviews)
The following news articles were discussed on the show:
Yahtzee from The Escapist Reviews the Orange Box
For those of you who know who Yahtzee is (and his review style), you’ll definitely enjoy his latest review of Valve’s Orange Box. He reviews the box as a whole as well as Episode 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal individually. Check it out, it’s quite funny.
Hellgate: London Demo Released
Those of you who don’t know what Hellgate: London is will probably not care about this demo release. Hellgate: London is a FPSMMORPG developed by the makers of Diablo.
Want Your Very Own Companion Cube? Get One Here!
Alright, so it might not be an “official” Portal Companion Cube, but it’s a Companion Cube nonetheless right? On a related note, numerous people who’ve sent Gabe Newell emails about wanting a Companion Cube available in the Valve Store have been told that it’s already been in production for two months and it will be here in time for the holidays.
A few of the Tom’s Hardware crew at the E For All expo, discussing various aspects of the former E3 Expo.
Doesn’t look that good at all.
I Played Through Episode Two Holding a Freaking Gnome
For those of you who have played Episode 2, you might remember seeing an achievement called “Little Rocket Man” where you need to send the garden gnome into space. Well, someone did it and documented his entire journey.
Soldier of Fortune: Payback – Banned From Australia
No description for this one guys. Ramzy’s on-air rant says it all.
The Portal Gun in Half-Life 2? Sure!
Some guys over at Primo Technology have figured out how to bring the Portal gun to Half-Life 2. Just use GCFScape to extract your maps and scenes folders from your HL2 GCF, then dump them in your Portal game directory. Load up portal and play one of the maps using the “map” command via the console. Once in the game, use sv_cheats 1 and impulse 101 to give yourself all weapons, including the Portal gun. Enjoy surprising those Combine soldiers!
Having sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and being the recipient of numerous awards, including GameSpot’s 2006 Game of the Year, Epic Games’ Gears of War isn’t a game that needs much of an introduction. Suffice it to say, Microsoft announced today that the PC version, announced during this year’s E3 Media and Business Summit.
Those of you itching to play the game will be happy to know it goes on sale November 6th. That’s less than 20 days away.
Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance Pick Up Their Copies of the Orange Box
These costumes are really, really well done. Check out the show notes for the pics.
AMD Still Can’t Get Its Act Together
AMD reported a net loss of $396 million, including $120 million in one-time charges, against revenues of $1.632 billion. Revenue increased sequentially by 18 percent and by 23 percent over a year ago, when AMD reported profits of $121 million.
Funny Videos
Wrap Up
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