Counter-Strike Online for Asia News
PC News by Robert Purchese
Valve has told everyone it will be making a new version of Counter-Strike for the Asian market.
It will be completely online, and pushed out across Japan, Taiwan, China and South Korea by Nexon - a publisher most well known for MMORPG MapleStory.
"By combining their proven development abilities and leadership position in Asia with Counter-Strike's award-winning core gameplay, we have the recipe for customising an online phenomenon for each of the Asian markets," said Gabe Newell, head honcho at Valve.
Counter-Strike is a tactical first-person shooter that was first released in 1999, then revamped to launch alongside Half-Life 2 in 2004.
You play as either a good-guy or a terrorist, and co-ordinate fancy attacks with groups of your friends. It's immensely popular for its realism (or at least its severity), and is estimated to generate around five billion minutes of play-time a month. Cor. If I was clever I would tell you how many people that meant were playing it.
It isn't yet clear what Valve will be doing to Counter-Strike Online to make it different, but we wouldn't expect it will be too far from the version we've been playing for a while.
We shall keep you posted.
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It isn't yet clear what Valve will be doing to Counter-Strike Online to make it different, but we wouldn't expect it will be too far from the version we've been playing for a while.
Ever seen Counter-Strike Neo, the Japanese arcade version of the game? That's pretty different. http://www.ledzone.com/csneo/about.html |
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thefilthandthefury
31/07/07 @ 08:41
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Is that true Daikon? I'd heard it from someone else but dismissed it as bullshit. But clearly it's known to at least a few more people so maybe there's some truth in it.
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A CS:S MMORPG would be funny.
"You have killed 1,239,912 terrorists. You can now buy Level 62 Kevlar!" Actually, there's a WC3 mod of CS that lets you gain experience, so you are closer to the mark than you think! Although you use it to buy skills, not equipment... /gets coat
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thefilthandthefury
01/08/07 @ 08:43
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Pft, never understood the 1.6 love. Source improves on it in every way IMO.
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