Steam, Portal, AlienSwarm, The Upcoming DotA 2 and The Ambitious Valve

This time I wanna tell you about Valve who is becoming so ambitious for the last 4 years. Valve is known for its games like CounterStrike, Half-Life, Left 4 Dead and the game delivery platform called Steam. Valve is gonna lead the way of game. Why? These reasons (based on my opinion) may can tell you more:

Steam, way of Valve to publish and deliver games

Steam is superior on this and still leading. It is also more dominating that this also available throughout Mac. It also set as the future way to deliver game, as the internet speed is dramatically increased. Oh, several game developer or publisher also use Steam to deliver their games, including Electronic Arts. As we know also, Valve is known for the online gaming environment. So, what is this mean? Valve is even bigger on this.

Portal, once a free game, become shareware astonishing game.

Portal, the game that derived from a free game called Narbacular Drop. Why can? Valve hired those DigiPen Institute of Technology students who developed it to do project of Portal. Powered with Source Game Engine, this game is making a new genre of game. And for your info, the real Portal game will be in its sequel, Portal 2, in 2011. The first one was only the introduction of the game. Despite this was only introduction, however, the game achieved 50 awards, so amazing. From this, it’s know that Valve is searching for talents and make it “real” and “true”.

AlienSwarm, once a Mod, become a real game.

This game is firstly a mod from a game called Unreal Tournament 2004. However, UT2004 is not developed by Valve but using Source Engine by Valve. But, in late 2007 the developed blog is stopped and remaining the game unclear. In July 2010, it’s revealed that Valve hired them. Nice one…

DotA 2, firstly a mod from Warcraft 2, become a real game.

This game is well known among gamers. I don’t want to explain it more. But, shocking news is there when Valve hiring IceFrog to make DotA 2 on the Source Engine. Nice one, Valve is doing the same thing again. They state that DotA 2 won’t changed at all. Seriously, only the graphics gonna better.

From those examples, we can know that Valve is actually searching for talents and make it on them, seriously Valve games is not as many as EA, Eidos, Ubisoft, Square-Enix, etc. But Valve games are usually great, as it does.