Valve to release free game Alien Swarm on Monday

[Spaceman Africa]

http://store.steampowered.com/news/4081/

Two years ago Valve hired the talented team behind the popular top down co-op mod Alien Swarm. Since then they have been busy working on the Left 4 Dead Series, and now Portal 2. However, we never forgot about Alien Swarm and the team has spent a lot of time bringing the game to Source in between their contributions to the other Valve projects.

On Monday, July 19th Alien Swarm is going to be released for free via Steam.

In addition to the game, Valve will also release the complete code base for Alien Swarm. This includes updates to the Source engine SDK and full Steamworks integration. If you’ve ever thought about developing a mod on the Source engine with Steamworks, this release provides more insight and examples for using Steamworks in game production.

Please visit http://www.alienswarm.com for more information.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/07 ... rm-monday/

[Alighieri]

Nice. I played it when it was a UT2003/4 mod and it was great fun, I never got around to playing the source version. Will deffo check it out.

[Rega]

So it's like Left 4 Dead?

[Scared]

So it's like Left 4 Dead?

More like Shadowgrounds.

I will have to check this out, source code and all!

[exe3]

too many free games being released lately >.<

[Novocaine]

<3 Valve

[Rega]

<3 Valve

Who doesn't?

[Spl@!]

I can has a pipebomb?

[Scared]

<3 Valve

Who doesn't?

CSS players for the next month before they go back to complaining "VALVe has abandoned CSS"....on second though, CS/CSS players all the time.

[Rega]

CSS players for the next month before they go back to complaining "VALVe has abandoned CSS"....on second though, CS/CSS players all the time.

MW2 players too Can't sell the game mainly because of Steam.

[Novocaine]

<3 Valve

Who doesn't?

I really do not know. Console fanboys maybe. But even then... I don't know.

[Tagert]

<3 Valve

Who doesn't?

Vivendi

[exe3]

<3 Valve

Who doesn't?

Vivendi

and me

[Mugsy]

Steam servers being hammered ATM... unsurprisingly. Looks like I'll wait for the storm to calm down.

Need to decide on a new car anyways.

[Spl@!]

nice unlock
Wonder if it translates into irl.