Kotaku - Gabe Newell has a problem.
The outspoken co-founder of Valve can't seem to get enough of one of his company's upcoming games. He's so into DOTA 2 that he temporarily moved his office to be closer to the team making it. In a recent interview with Kotaku he said that he's logged some serious, serious hours playing the action strategy game.
Fan projects Team Fortress: Source 2 and Portal 64 have shut down after Valve intervened in their development.
First they open Steam up to more AI, now they are shutting down fan projects when at one time they used to support or even give the fans jobs.
Wonder what's going on with Valve at the minute.
I mean, that might explain the Team Fortress 2 thing, because Valve might bring that to Source 2 (though I'm not sure I'd bet on that), but I can't see how Portal 64 hurts them. If anything, it's more attention to the Portal and therefore Valve/Steam.
There's potential that Valve had already planned to bring Source 2 to TF2 officially after Counter Strike 2. It's been getting some renewed attention lately.
You got Nintendo to thank for Portal64 being taken down. As for TF2, most likely it's due to the probability of Valve working on a source 2 port themselves. It's sucks but Nintendo are the biggest pricks in the business and not letting this drag out into a huge court drama is the best decision.
Valve has updated its stance on AI games on the Steam storefront, allowing creators to publish AI-created games.
Hell no. I want games that have been made by creative minds who have a passion for their craft, not a bot with a penchant for plagiarism.
So instead of paying for an engine and assets to create a game they are paying for an engine and assets to create a game.
From beefy tanks to powerful carries, these are the best Strength heroes in Dota 2's Turbo Mode.
Steve "Guinsoo" Feak was from what i can gather the first person to mod Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne map and make Dota All Stars.
Steve left to go work for Riot Games and make League of Legends but upon leaving left all the Dota stuff to Icefrog
Icefrog became the owner/caretaker of Dota and then Icefrog got hired by Valve.
unlike Blizzard Valve went and Trademarked the rights to the Dota name. DoTa2 will not have anything in it trademarked by Blizzard or WarcraftIII but will have the old characters in it from Dota.
Eul was the first person to "create" Defense of the Ancient. He released the RoC(Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos) version of Defense of the Ancient in 2003.
Steve "Guinsoo" Feak took Defense of the Ancients to DotA Allstars after Eul stopped developing it and formed a version with more coding.
Icefrog took over when Guinsoo faded away from the DotA Allstars updating - Creating DotA, not DotA Allstars or Defense of the Ancents, but DotA.
Icefrog himself took DotA from a mediocre mod to a hugely successfull competitive scene. The reason for DotA becoming so huge and the release of Heroes of Newerth & League of Legends is due to Icefrogs capability of creating a competitive game with focus on balance and teamplay.
Yes, Valve is in every right to create a DotA sequel, as they have hired the man who was in charge of bringing DotA from the lurking depths of Battle.net to platforms outside the game, such as Garena & Dotalicious (amongst many) with million of players on each.
Valve has trademarked Dota2 & Dota3 to protect their games. Another known DotA kid called "Pendragon" who hosted the well known DotA site, dota-allstars, filed for trademark on DotA. Blizzard has the trademark "Blizzard DOTA" and that's how the cookie crumbles.
Valve with Icefrog has 100% right to create a sequel and the player who possesses the Icefrog card, has the winning hand.
Valve haven't made an original game since Half-Life. Every other game is a mod they've bought, along with the modding team to develop in house.
This is how Valve operate. Nothing new.
Obsidian make practically nothing but sequels to established franchises.
Didn't valve already make sequels for games they didn't make the originals for? CS Source and DoD Source come to mind.