Valve releases Alien Swarm, a free Source top-down co-op shooter, on Monday

ovi25615y ago· 2 in thread

I really like what Valve is doing with Steam lately. They're in a big battle with that other game studio (Activision of course), and Alien Swarm looks like pretty good ammo. A pity there's no mac version. Yeah, I know, there's bootcamp.

younata15y ago

or... you get the sdk and you re-implement it for the mac.

bitsai15y ago

My understanding was that since Valve brought Steam and Source to Mac, all Source games will be playable on both PC and Mac going forward:

http://store.steampowered.com/news/3569/

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w1ntermute15y ago· 2 in thread

It's not just free - they're also releasing the source!!!

aw3c215y ago

The engine is called "Source", are you sure the source code will be freely released and if so, what source code exactly?

rodion_8915y ago

from my understanding, the source engine isnt open source but this game will be. i think that means that we can get anything that runs atop the engine but not the engine itself. wikipedia also has a page listing source in the commercial engines section rather than the open-source section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engines

vyrotek15y ago· 1 in thread

I checked out the forums and was glad to see I wasn't the only one who really wants a DoTA Mod based on this. I'll definitely be downloading this.

AndrewHampton15y ago

League of Legends is a really fun DoTA based game that I've been playing recently.

http://www.leagueoflegends.com/

m0tive15y ago

This reminds me of Natural Selection, which has to have been one of the most interesting Half-Life mods I use to play.

http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns/

usaar33315y ago

I have pretty high expectations after playing the UT 2004 version years back.

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