"Valve marketing boss Doug Lombardi said that the next installment in the Half-Life franchise would not be showing up at E3 2008, shooting down rumors that began circulating the Internet yesterday.

But, he said that a "playable Left 4 Dead will be on display in a Valve-hosted suite."

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 launched relatively recently (October 2007), but the franchise's loyal fanbase is already ready for more.

In the absence of Episode 3, Left 4 Dead will be Valve's focus at E3. The g..."

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Valve has announced an add-on which will allow users to play any Steam game that they might have in their library directly from any computer. The support, which is known as Steam Cloud, automatically saves your game data, as well as other things thing that you will be able to access from any computer. It's all free and the first games to offer Steam Cloud support will be the Half-Life series, Team Fortress 2, Counterstrike, and Left 4 Dead which is not yet released.

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So, it's a pretty slow release week this week, especially considering that three of the more notable releases this week are really just The Orange Box being split up into parts. But this week also sees the release of the dark RPG for the Wii and PS2, Baroque, and the PC Director's Cut of Assassin's Creed. Assassin's Creed: DC probably still has all the repetition of the original version, though.

Notable games this week:
Arcana Heart (PS2) [Official Site | Wikipedia]
Assassin's Creed: D...

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