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Gabe Newell Talks Half-Life 2

Posted by simoniker on from the hurrah-for-city-destroying-tripods dept.

Thanks to Voodoo Extreme for pointing to GamingNext's new interview with Gabe Newell of Valve Software - he's the managing director and co-founder of the company currently working on Half-Life 2. Topics include the scalability of the Source graphics engine: "A lot of the tricky work in Source is getting it to work across a wide variety of scenes (indoor, urban, outdoor) and across a wide variety of hardware. Not only do you have to run acceptably fast on a TNT or an Intel 810 based PC, but you have to fully exploit the capabilities of the current and next generation high-end cards." On a related note, the 500+MB Half-Life 2 gameplay/engine demo (BitTorrent link) from E3 is a must-download if you haven't seen it yet.

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  1. Re:Hello! First time reader! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I personally love it! besides if it pisses all you "OH MY EYES" mac (L)users off - all the better! you cant play games anyway (none of the *best* game come out on the mac) HA-HA!

  2. Re:Scalability by uXs · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, it's amazing. It's also complete and utter nonsense. I don't believe a word of it and you shouldn't either.

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    What our ancestors would really think, if they were alive today, is: Why is it so dark in here? (Terry Pratchett)
  3. Re:HL2 and CS2! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck CS, if DoD and NS move over to half-life2 then i'll be happy.