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Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. Saw this on Kotaku, thought it was kind of funny. Enjoy:

The game they were mentioning in the podcast was Gears of War 2. I agree with that being kind of cool, but at the same time, we were all trying to really push ourselves and play the most challenging version of the game. Even if Simon had more experience, I still don’t think we would have been able to make it through the whole campaign on expert, it’s just too hard. ...

It’s the second day of the zombie apocalypse. No zombie can stand against Chicago Ted. How long does it take to turn after infection? Two weeks? Two days? 2.5 hours!? That’s some of the flavor text littered around the safe rooms in L4D to add to the atmosphere and, despite never seeing another human being in the game, they effectively make us all feel like the world is actually lived in. Like there just might be other immune survivors roaming around, seeking help too. ...

Hey Dan, did you stay up until around 0300 today playing Left 4 Dead after it went live last night? Uh…yeah… But oh man, where to begin? Valve does not rush a product. They don’t ever release a game that hasn’t been thoroughly playtested and optimized for consumption. It’s why the L4D demo is so brilliant, it allowed them to take a look at the last few things that needed to be tweaked and then release accordingly. Take the difficulty level. There was quite a bit of outcry about the difficulty of the computer version being far too easy compared to the console version. In fact, I’d been refusing to play any levels that were lower than the highest difficulty, Expert. Let’s just say that last night we were stuck on the second level for somewhere around two hours, endlessly being mauled by the zombie hordes. ...

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday Wednesday video feature: Embedded Reporter. I know it’s not Monday and that today should be a WMQ post, but I didn’t watch any sports last week and I’d have a really tough time trying to rationalize fighting off the Zombie Apocalypse as a sport, even though it damn well should be, so instead we’re gonna watch the opening cinematic to Left 4 Dead. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. Due to some poor life decisions, I find myself stranded for five weeks without any video games. What’s a guy to do, right? Well, rather than just giving you some of the headlines from the week’s video game news in lieu of what I was planning to be gameplay impressions, reviews, and the like, I’ve instead started a five week “All-Stars” feature. Each week we’re going to look at a video game era and spotlight my top three games from that era. Each of these games will also receive a place setting at the prestigious “Table of Honor” feature that I’m working on. Here’s the weekly plan: ...

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. In their continued quest to create the most hilarious videos for each character class in Team Fortress 2, we had the debut of the Meet the Sniper video last week. What can I say? Valve just oozes brilliance from every pore. If I’m not mistaken, the only classes we have left now are the Spy and Medic and the possibilities for both of those classes should be hilarious. I just love that the new class designs allow for such individual characterization. The new art style was a brilliant idea. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. Due to some poor life decisions, I find myself stranded for five weeks without any video games. What’s a guy to do, right? Well, rather than just giving you some of the headlines from the week’s video game news in lieu of what I was planning to be gameplay impressions, reviews, and the like, I’ve instead started a five week “All-Stars” feature. Each week we’re going to look at a video game era and spotlight my top three games from that era. Each of these games will also receive a place setting at the prestigious “Table of Honor” feature that I’m working on. Here’s the weekly plan: ...

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. With Team Fortress 2, Valve took a risk with an already classic game and breathed new life into it with a unique art style and very uniquely differentiated player classes. To promote the game, they also started releasing short videos highlighting the off-kilter, but hilarious personalities of each of the classes. The most recent class video, Meet the Scout, debuted last week. Enjoy a collection of all the class videos released so far. ...