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“Grim Piñata” In the last of our Half-Life series of podcasts, we review both Half-Life 2: Episode One and Episode Two. Beyond this Leon, Darren Gargette, James and Josh speculate upon what may be yet to come for the Half-Life [...]

Darren G samples the latest version of Valve’s long-running and absurdly popular tactical FPS, Counter-Strike. PC version shown.

“Rise and shine, Mr. Freeman. Rise and shine.” Some twenty years after defeating the Nihilanth on Xen, Dr. Gordon Freeman is brought out of stasis by the mysterious G-Man to defend humanity (and the Vortigaunt) against the alien forces who [...]

“Fascinating! I never suspected such things could be.” In 1996 Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington founded Valve Corporation. Employing a team plucked from the cream of the Quake mod scene, they began work on a horror fps (inspired by Stephen [...]

Airtight Games‘ Kim Swift, lead designer on Valve‘s Portal, returns with Quantum Conundrum – a first-person, physics based puzzle-me-do. Go figure.

Darren re-enters the world of Left 4 Dead on the PC and shows you all the delights which can be found from Single Player to Multiplayer and even something which smells like Minecraft. This Quick Rinse ties in with Issue [...]

Grabbin’ pills! Leon, Tony, Darren Gargette and special guest David Turner of Joypod (presented by Spong.com) discuss Valve’s zombie opus Left 4 Dead and its sequel whilst sharing out the med-packs and watch each others’ backs while Cane & Rinse’s AI Director [...]

Episode 10: Darren tries to explain the basics of the Portal mechanics and has a merry little laugh on his way in Chapter 2 of Portal 2!

Episode 6: In this episode, dezm0nd takes us through a brief sojourn through Valve’s darkly violent, cartoonish first person shooter Team Fortress 2.