Deep Plaid

For a while now I’ve been observing and mulling over a particular problem with game design, and the gamer culture. A recent post by Damion Schubert on Zen of Design has brought it back to the forefront of my mind.
Why do game designers tend to ignore sports?

I proposed that a new Heavy weapon be The Sandwich, and Valve did it!
Unfortunately they seemed to think that the whole “devouring your enemies alive/feeding on the corpses of the dead” element of it just wasn’t a direction they wanted to go. Cowards!

I meant to post about this a few months ago. As I have an XBox 360 Development Kit provided by my job, I have access to PartnerNet and can thus play many XBLA games for free, before they’re even released. A couple months ago I played a pre-release version of Braid… which has finally just [...]

It took me a while to understand exactly what’s supposed to be going on in this link… but it has the potential to be something amazing.
It appears that they have a single powerful server which is raytracing a scene in realtime, and streaming the images down to a lightweight viewer like a web browser plug-in.
In [...]

Are these top-secret leaked screenshots proof that Valve is implementing my Sandwich idea?
You be the judge!!!!
Hint: No.