Chet Faliszek, 7 years of success with Valve

Valve's official website, the page dedicated to the profile of the writer of Left 4 Dead, Chet Faliszek, says the nickname given by the company to the staff member, Mr. Awesome. "A member of the human resources team has written to me, was an example of a bad profile to put online," said a Faliszek Videogame Source.

"We worked to Half-Life: Episode 1 and no one knew what to say, so I stepped forward and I selogiai yourself for doing it." Faliszek with Erik Wolpaw wrote the story of games like Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead, Portal and Left 4 Dead 2 2. "At the time of Half-Life 2: Episode 1, the people did not know my role, now everyone knows what I do.

New images for LA Noire

A succession of screenshots for the protagonists of the game Rockstar has just released a new set of images for Noir, the action adventure that will be available by May 20 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Set in Los Angeles in the late '40s, the game boasts an atmosphere of noir and sees the player assume the role of a detective involved in the resolution of a series of murders.

The developers have recently stated that the single player campaign will last from thirty to forty hours.

• Rockstar Games Hosts an L.A. Noire Sweepstakes (16/03/2011)
• New L.A. Noire Character Dossier: Detective Stefan Bekowsky (17/03/2011)
• Rockstar: LA Noire will be about 30 hours long (L.A. Noire) (15/03/2011)
• LA Noire interrogation, investigated on video (10/03/2011)
• "LA Noire Main Story Clocks In Around 25-30 Hours, Says Rockstar" and related posts (14/03/2011)

L.A. Noire (homepage)  L.A. Noire (wikipedia)  

Some people still buy 'Horse Armour

Bethesda said that the players still buy the add on Horse Armour for the role-playing game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The DLC, available for nearly five years, was criticized at the time of its publication on Xbox Live Marketplace for the overcharge, armor for 200 Microsoft Points. "Everything we've done has been successful, including the much-criticized horse armor," said the vice president Pete Hines of Bethesda in OXM.

The man from Thief and System Shock has teamed up with Valve

Who knows what to expect from this collaboration Gamasutra has revealed that Doug Church, a man behind the Thief series, System Shock and last, has teamed up with Valve. It seems that Doug is from two weeks to work on a mysterious project, still in the making. Church had recently worked on a title from Electronic Arts and Steven Spielberg Project LMNO, an ambitious action adventure planned for Xbox 360 and PS3, but canceled in 2010.

Activision and EA to the day of reckoning

As reported by Bloomberg, only one of the four counts alleged in the case in Electronic Arts Activision / Infinity Ward was dismissed. According to EA, Activision did not provide evidence on the alleged recruitment of former manager and Zampella, Infinity Ward West from the publisher's Medal of Honor, while according to Activision EA would take confidential information within two at a time when West and Zampella worked with Infinity Ward.

The BAFTA award Mass Effect 2

Great prizes for everyone. Just last night for all who were assigned the BAFTA Awards, the Oscars or the video game in England. Among the oddities noted in this edition as not to report that Fallout 3: New Vegas competed in the category of strategic and God of War 3 has won the Artistic Achievement? For the rest, the script has been met and all the major publishers have been satisfied with any prize.

Broken promises, Molyneux apologizes

During the ceremony, an honor that has delivered BAFTA Fellowship to Peter Molyneux, designer of Fable has apologized for all the broken promises. "I would like to thank the press for having listened to what I had to say," said the boss of Lionhead. "I'm sorry, in some cases are probably not able to keep all the promises." Molyneux has production assets such as Populous, Dungeon Keeper, and Fable and was the fourth industry veteran to get a BAFTA Fellowship after Shigeru Miyamoto, Nolan Bushnell and Will Wright.