The required sum for the tickets was donated within 3 days with this response from Gabe Newell:

The English language lacks the words to express the level of excitement Erik and I feel that you and your friends have pulled this off. Give us some time to organize our affairs, as we are trying to ship a product, and then we’ll let you know the time and date of our arrival. Give our best to Robin’s mother, as she is apparently a neighbour of yours.

Gabe & Erik

The history of the stunt, from the Fly Gabe Newell Blog.

In June 2009, a Steam group was created to boycott Valve Software’s upcoming sequel, Left 4 Dead 2.

In September 2009, the leaders of the group were invited to Valve’s headquarters to play the game for themselves, whereupon they decided it was awesome after all.

Although I personally have been privileged enough to have conversed with Valve’s CEO, Gabe Newell, many times by email, and even to have been sent a signed, cardboard X800XT from him (he’s a pretty awesome dude), I have not once – not one time - been flown to Valve to play their games early!

I therefore sent him an email. For context, I have recently been working on a Left 4 Dead 1 campaign.

Stephen Conroy responds (Credit: Suzanne Tindal/ZDNet.com.au)

The Usenet group alt.binaries.conroy has been flooded with various files in the past 24 hours with the updated blacklist amongst other intriguing and extremely disturbing documents.  I grabbed the Blacklist but be sure to point your Newsgroup reader to the above link before it gets blocked.

Link: acma-blacklist-real

Top 10 Pirated PC games

1 Spore – 1,700,000 – Sept. 2008
2 The Sims 2 -1,150,000 – Sept. 2004
3 Assassins Creed -1,070,000 – Nov. 2007
4 Crysis – 940,000 – Nov. 2007
5 Command & Conquer 3 – 860,000 – Mar. 2007
6 Call of Duty 4 – 830,000 – Nov. 2007
7 GTA San Andreas – 740,000 – Jun. 2005
8 Fallout 3 – 645,000 – Oct. 2008
9 Far Cry 2 – 585,000 – Oct. 2008
10 Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 – 470,000 – Oct. 2008

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Create Your Own
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Countless hotkeys

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Those good humoured folks at Cern have finally equipped their own resident Gordon Freeman with the tools necessary to stop the impending invasion by the Combine construct. Picasa Images.

The idea came from a reddit comment

One of our quick-thinking redditors suggested a plan to save mankind. We’d send CERN a crowbar. Just to be safe, we made it a wrecking bar, threw in a headcrab hat (for training purposes) and Fark donated a Half-life strategy guide to the cause.

Additionally, we found a physicist there who understood the magnitude of this project — she’s also responsible for the Large Hadron Rap, a subversive way for young people to learn about particle physics without knowing it.

In honour of the new US President, A game based on “Super Mario world” has been created.

Titled Super Obama World The game takes a satirical look at US politics, with Obama collecting flags and dodging lipstick-wearing pit bulls, lobbyists and Sarah Palin. source.

Oh and you can play this nifty flash game here: Super Obama World.

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