Posted by: Mike Stedman at July 6, 2009 9:00:59 AM
Welcome to another fantastic week of the GDNet Daily. The hardest part of writing a Daily, of course, is the introduction. In order to write a compelling Daily you have to draw the reader in, and the trick to that is to not waste several sentences trying to explain how difficult your job of writing Dailies is.
Before we get started today, GDNet+ member Demosthenes has a new game out on XNA Community Games; Bennu placed in the top 20 in the 2008 DreamBuildPlay contest, and now you can try it for yourself.
Codemasters' DIRT 2, aside from having lickable rally-prepped turbo nutter Subarus, will apparently feature DirectX 11 support when it launches on PC. The downside? You'll have to wait a bit after the console version comes out. Personally, I'll wait for the PC version in order to use it with my G25, as I am not ready to buy yet another wheel in order to use it on my 360. Valve's controversy magnet Left 4 Dead 2 will have a free demo if you pre-order, similar to the previous game's release. The original Left 4 Dead is due to receive new downloadable content very soon. I hadn't heard much about Alpha Protocol before this news article broke, but now I'm quite excited. You can be James Bond and juggle statistics. Heaven.
Microsoft also released Kodu, which as I've stated previously reminds me a lot of Apple's original kid-oriented Cocoa development environment. Take a look at Kodu; it certainly gave me some ideas for how I can architect a future game.
In independent news, Gratuitous Space Battles looks sexy as hell, there's a new demo of The Underside, and as stated before Fez is coming to Xbox Live Arcade. Finally, you'll be able to invite Phil Fish into your home, just as many teenage girls across our fair nation have wished for years.
Have you ever wanted to see what my half-disjointed ramblings look like in Chinese? Well, wonder no more. A very devoted Daily fan has been translating the Dailies, which has to be pretty difficult considering my pretentious use of eclectic language.
Original post by Moe
Wouldn't having to pre-order the game not really make the demo free?
Yeah - that's where a lot of the original hate for L4D came from. You had to spend fifty bucks to buy the game in the first place, and only then could you play the demo.
People found out they didn't really like it, but Valve kept saying downloadable content would come and improve the game - of course, now it's coming after the second game is announced.
Original post by Moe
Wouldn't having to pre-order the game not really make the demo free?
Yeah - that's where a lot of the original hate for L4D came from. You had to spend fifty bucks to buy the game in the first place, and only then could you play the demo.
People found out they didn't really like it, but Valve kept saying downloadable content would come and improve the game - of course, now it's coming after the second game is announced.
Its a game I have never really felt the need to play. I spent my $10 on TF2, and still love it a long time after - Valve makes some wonderful games, but L4D just seemed a little too money grubbing.
Sik_the_hedgehogMember since: 1/31/2009 From: El Palomar, Buenos Aires
Posted - 7/6/2009 11:16:51 PM
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Original post by Moe
Wouldn't having to pre-order the game not really make the demo free?
Yeah, sounds like an oxymoron =P But the actual deal is that you get to play the demo before the game comes out and the demo is officially released along with it. Basically sorta kind of a private release of the demo, as a nice bonus for preordering =]
Original post by Moe
Wouldn't having to pre-order the game not really make the demo free?
Yeah, sounds like an oxymoron =P But the actual deal is that you get to play the demo before the game comes out and the demo is officially released along with it. Basically sorta kind of a private release of the demo, as a nice bonus for preordering =]
Except that for the original L4D, the demo didn't come out with the release - instead there was no demo at all.
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