Valve would 'love' to see its older titles on XBLA

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Valve would 'love' to see its older titles on XBLA

Posted Jul 29th 2008 3:30PM by Richard Mitchell
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In an interview with Official Xbox Magazine UK, Valve's Doug Lombardi revealed that the company will "certainly consider" bringing some of its older titles to Xbox Live Arcade. With Valve already bringing Portal: Still Alive to XBLA, it would certainly make sense for Valve to look at placing its older titles on XBLA. Lombardi seems to agree, noting, "We'll certainly consider it. If you look at what we've done on Steam, we try to make all our games available and we're always reviewing the prices to keep them current." He added that Valve would "love" to bring it's older titles to XBLA but that "Portal: Still Alive is our first step at doing that beyond the PC." Lombardi also reiterates Valve's current strategy of working with the PC and 360 saying, "Right now, Valve's doing PC and 360 stuff, so anything we would iterate on would be on Xbox. We don't have any immediate plans to do this on PS3 or Nintendo."

Can anyone say Counter-Strike?

[Via Joystiq]

Tags: doug-lombardi, portal, portal-still-alive, valve

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7-29-2008 @ 3:48PM

CmpsdNoMore said...

I'd love to see Red Orchestra come to Xbox 360, though I don't think it would be as fun since you'd have to lose some of the controls.

7-29-2008 @ 3:50PM

Muffin_man said...

Can anyone say Counter-Strike?

Counter-Strike.

I hope they bring the source version and not the old version. If Portal on arcade will have the same quality as the retail version then there is no reason that counter-strike should be dumbed down either.

7-29-2008 @ 6:01PM

Momer said...

That pic is of Source, but they say older titles. I highly doubt Source would ever come to Arcade, however 1.6 is highly likely.

7-29-2008 @ 3:52PM

whocares said...

I think it would be rubbish if they brought counter strike to the xbox cos I (like many)would never leave the house, and my hands would probably fuse to the controller as skin grows around it after months of never putting the controls down...this will ruin peoples lives

7-29-2008 @ 5:50PM

JerkfacedFed said...

lol yup. those evil valve conspirators. they would ruin society as we know it.

please cs / dod / ns

7-30-2008 @ 1:00PM

Grant said...

Oh, you mean this game:
http://www.ebgames.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=21590

i thoroughly enjoyed it, but it shows it's age on the 360. They should update it with higher res skins and release it on XBLA, somehow create support for things like gungame or 3rd party maps maybe?

7-29-2008 @ 3:58PM

Rick said...

I would actually LOVE IT if Valve would start aiming for feature parity on TF2 between the PC and Xbox360 versions. When are those new weapons and achievements coming to XBL, guys? It's like they completely abandoned TF2 on Xbox. Thanks for nothing. I'll keep this in mind for future Valve releases and avoid them altogether.

7-29-2008 @ 4:10PM

Royale said...

Yea, I will not play another valve game until my TF2 gets some love. *sarcasm*

Even when the new achievements and content is added to the 360 TF2, it will most likely cost 800 MS points or so. There is probably a weird hold up with the content from MS. I'm sure if valve had it's way, they would release the content for free right now on the 360.

Maybe you should just buy the PC version because the new weapons are awesome.

7-29-2008 @ 4:37PM

Rick said...

I'm not going to buy the game twice, but my point is that they handled the 360 version like a red-headed stepchild. It's pretty crappy support, and I kind of doubt it's all Microsoft's fault. Valve has been dragging their feet since Orange Box was released.

7-29-2008 @ 4:01PM

Mr.ESC said...

Half-life nuff said.

I want Audiosurf and All the TF2 goodness maybe Tf classic.

7-29-2008 @ 4:06PM

RyanBlack said...

CS: Source would be awesome.

7-29-2008 @ 4:10PM

natrontheape said...

Holy $hit CS:S would be intense on XBL. Please make it happen.

7-29-2008 @ 4:16PM

Steven said...

Comedy Richochet suggestion.

7-29-2008 @ 4:17PM

w000t156566 said...

Counter strike source sucks, i would like to see 1.6.

7-29-2008 @ 4:38PM

Drewlius said...

Day of Defeat > all

7-29-2008 @ 5:18PM

Jim said...

True dat, I misses me some DOD.

7-29-2008 @ 4:45PM

Etchasketchist said...

Cowner Thwike!

Nope, can't do it.

7-29-2008 @ 4:48PM

Dadidito said...

Here are my ms points. CS: Source. end of story. Nothing like that can ever get old... hasn't yet.

7-29-2008 @ 4:52PM

Steven said...

I'll only accept counter-strike source if they leave in surf maps.

7-29-2008 @ 4:58PM

AnthonyGalindoX said...

I think most of you are confusing Valve games with Steam games (Audiosurf and Red Orchestra are not made by Valve). I would love to see the first Half-Life and it's expansions. As long as they don't sell games that they then also put out on disc. I'm kind of disappointed that Portal: Still Alive will also include Portal which was in The Orange Box. That means I will have paid for Portal twice.

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