Half Life 2 Episode 2 Due Out October 9th 83
Shacknews reports that Half-Life 2 Episode 2 is finally, finally, due out on the 9th of October. The game will release for the PC, 360, and PS3, and will be joined by Team Fortress 2 and the FPS/Puzzler Portal. "Today's news follows rumors originating last month that the PlayStation 3 versions of the games would be delayed into 2008. Valve's Doug Lombardi noted to Shacknews that development has been progressing well on all three platforms. Electronic Arts is distributing the games at retail as a package entitled Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, which also includes the original Half-Life 2 and last year's Half-Life 2: Episode One. It will sell for $49.99 on PC and $59.99 on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Previously, the company intended to sell a slimmer package, The Black Box, which would not include Half-Life 2 or Half-Life 2: Episode One, but those plans were cancelled last month. It is expected that Steam customers will retain the option to purchase only the newly-released games."
Re:Team Fortress 2 (Score:4, Interesting)
Neither - a modder initially invited over for a developers' conference and who booked all his travel straight away, only for the conference to be postponed until next year or so. Cancelling all the tickets seemed silly, so I asked nicely and now I'm a one-man mod conference of my very own...
Thus, I've spent the last couple of days playing through Valve's current catalogue of upcoming games. Such hard work.
While I didn't hear anyone explicitly say that bunny-hopping (the engine-disrupting, super-speed thing) had been removed, I definitely didn't see anyone use it. Likewise, no demo-man grenade-jumping, and while I saw a bit of soldier rocket-jumping, it wasn't the fly-across-the-entire-map thing of yesteryear.
Think I'd better go and show 'em this MINERVA thing I've been working on - it's a bit of a walk from the hotel, and it's still raining, despite my attempt to sit it out...