Most of New World are still working on Insurgency: Sandstorm, a follow-up to their modern-day multiplayer military FPS - this time with a story mode which supports co-op. The PING! of its M1 Garand firing the final bullet of a clip is one of those video game noises forever lodged in my brain.ĭay of Infamy is due to hit Steam Early Access for Windows and Mac in July. Day of Defeat: Source followed in 2005 and gosh, it's been a while. They've got their own their own original maps too, obvs.ĭay of Defeat started out as a free mod itself, for Half-Life, before Valve bought it up and expanded it for a commercial release in 2003. They're not using all the assets Valve offered, but they are planning maps based on DoD classics like Ramelle, Caen, Avalanche, and Thunder. So having now hired some community modder chums, they're making their own take on the class-based, control point-capturing FPS. We had the opportunity to create an openly spiritual successor to the de facto WWII game many of us grew up on.' Although we had considered commercializing the game from the beginning, Valve's positive response and licensing offer made the project a no-brainer to us. They also encouraged us to make maps inspired by the classic DoD maps and provided permission to use art from their games. Valve offered to license Source Engine again to us so we could make the DoD-inspired game. The original DoD creators checked it out and gave us their thumbs up. 'After the mod version of Day of Infamy launched, we reached out to Valve to get their thoughts on the project. New World Interactive tell their tale in a blog post: It'll start on Steam Early Access next month. Now they're expanding it into a full and proper standalone game on the Source Engine, and with Valve's support they're even making a few levels based on ones from Day of Defeat. Insurgency devs New World Interactive started Day of Infamy as a free mod made with the help of community members, releasing the first version earlier this year. Tags below the threshold do not have enough votes to be considered valid for this game yet.Day of Infamy, the Insurgency mod unashamedly based on Valve's WW2 FPS Day of Defeat, is becoming a standalone commercial game - with Valve's blessing. Votes are the number of times a tag has been applied to this game by a Steam user, To support us join Club 250! Dates ReleasedĤ,167 days (11.4 years) Reviews Total reviews verified 5,627īased on research by GameDiscoverCo median Sign in T1īased on research by GameDiscoverCo median T2

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