NOTE: This week’s recording is at 7pm EDT on Monday – 2 days, 6 hours later than the default time.

NOTE: Episodes are currently streamed over twitch.tv/podcast17 instead of our ShoutCAST.

Introduction

• William is joined by ???.

Follow-up & Errata

• PP: The 6×10 Mapping Competitions Event.
  • Competition 2 begins 6:00PM GMT 1st June.

From the Mouth of Valve

• Valve and Overkill Games Working Together on “Payday: Left 4 Dead”. [Via. LG, VT]
• Portal 2 Puzzle Creator Fixes & Changes.
• Portal 2 Workshop Surpasses 100,000 Items.
• Dota 2 Blog: Is that a squirrel?
• L4D Blog: May 25th Update – Flu Season, PAX?
• CS Blog: May 21st Update.
• Workshop Blog: Toki Tori 2 Workshop Integration Announced.
• ValveTime: Valve’s E3 2012 plans confirmed.
• The Escapist: Valve forbidden from developing anything related to Bungie’s new game: Destiny [Via. ValveTime]

Releases & Updates

• 1187 – Rogue Train released. (download)
• Cry of Fear 1.35 update.
• Station 51 – Half-Life 2: Ep2.
• Critical Cargo – Half-Life 2: Ep2

Media Blitz

• Soulless – Episode One Trailer Release!
• Ground Zero – One Year, Three Days (Plus Urban Ruins!).
• Mindworld: Shattered Dreams – News #23.
• Firearms: Source – FA:S 2.0 Open Beta Plans.
• Earth’s Special Forces – Quick Glimpse at Melee Voice, Sounds, and Animations.
• The Stanley Parable: Mobile Edition – Tipped by Ryswick.
• The Inspection – Changing name + progress.
  • Previously known as Portal 2 Testing Project.
• Jaykin’ Bacon: Episode Three – Media update #1!
• Blade Symphony – Show & Tell, 5/24/2012. – Tipped by Esoj.
• Mission Improbable – A Quick Update on the Progress.
• Aurora Effect – Still Alive.
• Overwatch – Brand New Update (1.5.0) & OST: in 7 Days!

Discussion

• PP Poll 276 – Would you rather have lots of maps with low quality visuals or less maps with high quality?
• PP 7 Series: 7 Ways I Beta Test Maps.
• LG: 6 Years Ago, Half-Life 2: Episode Three Was Announced.
• LG: Hot Damn, They’re Making Insurgency 2.

Last Words

• Shout-outs to Esoj, Ryswick.

Event Time

Recording starts in…

Mon 28th May at 11:00pm UTC

Additional Timezones

USA & Canadian Times

• Los Angeles, PDT Mon  4:00pm
• Denver, MDT Mon  5:00pm
• Chicago, CDT Mon  6:00pm
• New York, EDT Mon  7:00pm

European Times

• London, BST Tue 12:00am
• Lisbon, WEST Tue 12:00am
• Madrid, CEST Tue  1:00am
• Athens, EEST Tue  2:00am

Australian Times

• Perth, WST Tue  7:00am
• Darwin, CST Tue  8:30am
• Brisbane, EST Tue  9:00am