Valve Developing For 360

1up reports that Valve is apparently developing a title for the Xbox 360. From the article: "In addition to enhancing their custom Source engine with improvements taking advantage of the Xbox 360 hardware, Valve's focusing on incorporating future releases into Microsoft's Xbox Live service. Xbox Live sure would make an enormous amount of sense with the studio's episodic content plans for Half-Life 2." As the article notes, this is a big turnaround for outspoken developer Gabe Newell.

It was only a matter of time...

[mrchaotica]

...since Gabe has always had such a hard-on for Microsoft that he took a perfectly good cross-platform game engine and lobotomized it to make it Windows-only. (Can you tell I'm bitter? I'd love to play Half-Life 2, but won't buy it because it won't run on my Mac or Linux boxes).

It's interesting to note, though, how much the his April 2006 statement (in the article) sounds like marketdroid-speak compared to his August 2005 one. Maybe now he's been lobotomized, too!

Re:It was only a matter of time...

[InThane]

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=2890 [winehq.org]

HL2 works with Wine just fine. I know, I've done it. The only downside is that it only supports the DX8 renderpath, so you miss out on some of the eyecandy.

Re:It was only a matter of time...

[mrchaotica]

Excactly -- although, in this case the AC has a valid point: I do in fact own an Intel Mac. [Un]fortunately, for some reason when I try to install Windows using Boot Camp, the Windows installer doesn't see the partitions correctly (i.e. it only sees one "unknown" partition that's the size of the entire drive) so I can't install it.

I actually do have a Windows 2000 partition on my old AMD box specifically for the purpose of running Half-Life 1, but I didn't mention it in my previous post in order to make a stronger argument. Don't get me wrong -- I really won't buy Half-Life 2 because it doesn't support Linux or Mac OS (and because of Steam, but that's a separate issue) but it's because I refuse to on principle rather than because I physically can't run it.