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Counter-Strike Source: Valve offers Source for 360

By: poohead - Published October 24, 2006 at 1:58 PM EDT - Writer Archive

Source will soon be on your xbox.

Today Valve Software announced that the Xbox 360 version of its Source engine is being offered to developers. The Source engine debuted with Valve's own Half-Life 2 and has since been licensed for use in PC games like Dark Messiah of Might and Magic and SiN Episodes: Emergence.

Half-Life 2 is scheduled to be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the first quarter of 2007, in a package that also includes the series' first two episodic content installments, as well as a pair of new games, Portal and Team Fortress 2.

[UPDATE] When asked if Valve was preparing to make the Source engine available as PS3 middleware, a representative of the company told GameSpot, "We're not currently working with Sony on PS3 middleware." While Valve is developing the Xbox 360 version of Half-Life 2 internally, is co-developing the PS3 version with an Electronic Arts studio.

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rofl.. maybe h2 would be ok but.. css . roflslsorlolss

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Well they did have 1.6 on the xbox so i dont see why they wouldnt do this.

nice mouse players FTW controllers will die it'll be like cable vs dialup players in q2

Not surprised, like 3, they do have Counter-Strike on the XBox. Xbox Source tourny for CPL? :D

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

LMAO

wow so bad

Go to XBOX and leave PC! :D

#5 have you ever played it, it's terrible

cs was awful for the xbox

#clanXe #Opticon #VoiceTap

I'll buy it :D

カンチョ

good. it will be good for the 360 thats for sure.

ROFL SO STUPID

Where does it exaclty state cs source.

On xbox you don't have a keyboard to work with the console :(

"sit on your hand for a few hours till you dont feel it anymore, then use it, pwns" -Lango

[b]Several of you don't seem to realize that "Source" refers to all Valve-created games on the Source engine.[/b]

Yay dumb people.

That's cool...no use for me though.

#19

but I think it would be neat IF and only IF it's controlable with keyboard and mouse

First person shooters are never any good on a console with controllers...

#12, i've played Source, yes, Xbox, no. I wasn't being serious about CPL having a Xbox Source tournament...

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.

farking awesome, defiantly be buying this

#22 wtf are you on? goldeneye was the bomb and that was played on controllers, let alone halo and many others

sauce is the future u cnnot deny that 1.6 is in past like back to the future

what #19 said.

I still don't like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osru4ojkSw8

Wonder if the source kids on xbox could play cal???

Good job to valve, more money, more problems as people say.

Asus A8N-SLi Prem AMD64 4000+ CorsairXMS2Gb WD250gb eVGA7800GT Audigy2SE

cs 1.6 on xbox was horrible, so why would they make HL2 for 360?

was good

Because people will buy it anyway?

This comment was edited at 10/24/2006 9:01 PM

weak

Condition zero was on xbox, not 1.6, it sucked on xbox cause there was too much auto-aim, the game was too laggy, and it's harder to aim with a controller for a game like that, and headshots were all luck, you couldn't have good aim and get good headshots cause the auto-aim made the bullets go to the body.

watup akuma long time no see buddy, wat you playin noadays. newayz yea it was cs:cz for the xbox and it pretty bad. graphics were horrible, u can't counter flashes, you can't wall people too well, hs are random, easier to spray and the list goes on. it was still fun and a good game to play but it does not compare whatsoever to pc. the new source for 360 should be interseting though, i can't wait for it.

Kenny: "Man, Counter-Strike:Source is the worst game ever..."
Me: "Where'd you play it, you don't have a computer!"
Kenny: "I played it on my Xbox 360... is it on the PC now too?"

Striving for the best, Expecting nothing less, Gamer 4 life.

xbox 360 baddd

all the 1.6 kids that come in here laughing about this are funny, because that they dont understand that the source engine is the next big thing. maybe they dont like source, true enough. but the 1.6 engine is so freakin old it is unreal. its called advancments in technology, i donno how often u guys upgrade your computers or whatnot. or if you even own an xbox. but halflife on xbox would rock. just like the majority of the games that they make, multiplayer however will lack in the percision that the keyboard/mouse gives you. Halo anyone? don't laugh because microsoft is utilizing an amazing system with an amazing engine. grow up.

#36 rofl the next big thing? valve should stick to buying good engines instead of making their own crap ones. Lets see how well the source engine is licensed compared to UT2k7 or doom 3 engines.

most of the games you can buy on steam dont even use the source engine. and the source engine still has the stutter problem. GG

it wont sell to people that have the pc version. just like the xbox version of cs, terrrible

plz no.

lawl

Portal will destroy.

puke

they NEVER SAID CSS WAS COMING OUT FOR x360, source engine games skeet skeet, bad move valve #23433544 and counting

CAL/CEVO-Main 12-0 / TheFinalStand

#37 your compairing the source engine (already what 2 years old) to ut2k7 ? is that even out yet? exactly.

yuck
aiming with a controller
thats disgusting

#43 yes i forgot to mention its 2 years old, hardly the "next big thing" like you claim. ok lets compare it to doom3/ ut2k4/quake 3 all older than source yet less buggy and more successfull in terms of licensing.

and yes ut2k7 will stomp source like a tiny insect. im sorry but the source engine is the biggest pile of crap to be released in a long long time, why do u think the number of licenses sold is so low? . Anyone who defends it doesnt know anything about game engines or is just a valve fanboy.

This comment was edited at 10/27/2006 6:02 AM

#45 im sure u dont play 1.6. but what ever with that.

how is doom3 doing anyway? seems like it was pretty big for about 6 months or so.. ut2k4 has ALOT of HUGE tournments right now also. quake 3 is about the only game you mentioned that is still somewhat sucessful. also with that beign said talkin about less buggy engines? quake 3 is what.. from 1995? of course its gonna be less buggy. and also on that fact, your compairing the whole source engine to CSS. not the single person games which are on the source engine.

Oh my, big news for consoles!
Could lead to some nice gameplay online.

i think we need to let source go guys, let it die :(

#46 wtf u slavering about tournaments for?

wtf has a game engine success got to do with esports?

ut2k4 engine licensed to these games

America's Army v1.0 ~ v2.7 � (2006) U.S. Army
Brothers In Arms: Road to Hill 30(2005), Brothers In Arms: Earned in Blood � (2005) Gearbox
Combat: Task Force 121 � (2005) Direct Action Games[12][13]
Dead Man's Hand � (2004) Human Head Studios
Desert Thunder � (2003) Brainbox Games
Deus Ex: Invisible War � (2003) Ion Storm
Devastation � (2003) Digitalo Studios
Exteel � (2005) NC Soft[14]
Lineage II � (2003) NC Soft
Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds � (2003) Atari
Postal� � (2003) Running With Scissors, Inc.
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45 � (2006) Tripwire Interactive[15][16]
Sephiroth � Imazic Entertainment
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury � (2004) Zombie
Star Wars: Republic Commando � (2005) LucasArts[17][18]
Thief: Deadly Shadows � (2004) Ion Storm
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Athena Sword � (2004) Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow (Xbox only) � (2004) Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield � (2003) Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell � (2003) Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow � (2004) Ubisoft
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory � (2005) Ubisoft[19]
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent � (2006) Ubisoft
Unreal II: The Awakening (uses build 829-2001) � (2003) Legend Entertainment
Unreal Championship (uses build 927-1018) � (2002) Digital Extremes
Unreal Engine 2 Runtime Edition (uses build 2226-2227) � (2003) Epic Games
Unreal Tournament 2003 (uses build 2107-2225) � (2002) Digital Extremes
Unreal Tournament 2004 (uses build 3196-3371) � (2004) Digital Extremes
World War II Combat: Iwo Jima � Direct Action Games[20]
XIII � (2003) Ubisoftse games

QUAKE 3 Engine games :

Quake III Arena (1999) � id Software
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K.� (2000) � Ritual Entertainment
Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force (2000) � Raven Software
American McGee's Alice (2000) � Rogue Entertainment
The World is Not Enough � Electronic Arts Los Angeles(2000; cancelled)
This was to be a PS2 and PC version of the PlayStation and N64 game; it was cancelled and became Agent Under Fire � Electronic Arts Los Angeles
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault (2002) � 2015 inc.
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Spearhead (2003) � Electronic Arts Los Angeles
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault - Breakthrough (2003) � Electronic Arts Los Angeles
Quake III: Team Arena (2000) � id Software
Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) � Gray Matter Interactive
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (2003) � Splash Damage
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix (2002) � Raven Software
Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast (2002) � Raven Software
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (2003) � Raven Software
Star Trek: Elite Force II (2003) � Ritual Entertainment
Call of Duty (2003) � Infinity Ward
Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004) � Gray Matter Interactive

games using source engine after 2 years :
Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
Dino Hunters
Kuma\War 2
Natural Selection: Source [2]
Postal 3 (PC and Xbox 360)[19]
Prime
SiN Episodes
The Ship
They Hunger: Lost Souls
Twilight War: After the Fall (production resumed)
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

yeah what a great engine, all those devs flocking to it, really high quality titles like "the ship"

This comment was edited at 10/30/2006 12:19 PM