Valve Art Auctioned for Red Cross

[CSN NewsBot]

Gamecloud and Valve Software have teamed up to auction off some Half-Life 2 concept art. Two lithographs will be auctioned (with one already on eBay), with every cent going to the American Red Cross fund for hurricane survivors.

Gamecloud and the developers of Half-Life 2, Valve Corporation, have teamed up to help the American Red Cross in their hurricane relief efforts. Valve has produced 100 limited edition prints of a spectacular piece of art depicting the mechanical takeover of City 17 and the imposing alien citadel that figures prominently in Half-Life 2. The “Combine Wall� print is based on artwork that was made during the production of Half-Life 2 by Art Director Viktor Antonov.



While Valve plans to sell prints 2-99 to the public, they have graciously given Gamecloud prints number 1 and number 100, complete with certificates of authenticity, for our American Red Cross eBay auction. Both the certificates and the prints are signed and feature an embossed Half-Life Lambda logo. One hundred percent of the proceeds for the auction will be donated to the American Red Cross to aid hurricane victims.

Good art for a good cause.

[Pan the Goat God]

Well thats cool to see.

[BeaMeR]

This is awesome good job to everyone who made this happen.

[Linux]

I wish I could bid, but just went way out of my price range . I supported the red cross, but thats some really cool art work.

[peagle]

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That is a really great image, I'm tempted to bid but at $255 now I imagine it's going to go for a huge sum in 6 days.

[Zips]

Kudos to Valve (and the other companies helping in the relief efforts).



The art looks extremely well done, and if only I had the cash (E-bay item is already up to $255), I'd certainly place a bid.

[skankuser]

Yay for Valve, now to fixing DOD: Source.

[ultracooldom]

255 higher in 6 days?



you mena it will rise all in the last minute :p

[snkcube]

Valve is so kind. =]

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

$560 already.. :p

[Omicr0n]

This is a very expensive lithograph. I dont pay this much for Ursula Vernon's originals.

[Gpig]

I'd pay a 100 bucks for any of the others. Although I'd be happy with just a 20 dollar poster (as long as it isn't folded like the CS:S poster...which is of CS:S anyways so nobody cares).

[RavenGT]

One of the few things that Valve has accomplished which no asshole can ever flame about. Astonishing job, Valve.

[-:Nighthawk:-]

This is all just a big publicity stunt by VALVe to try to distract us from all the bugs in CS:S that they're not fixing while they do this crap for a bunch of people who chose to live where a hurricane could get to them. Once again, VALVe is trying to screw us all over. Who would pay over $500 for that? Who cares about a few crappy posters when we still don't have Lost Coast?



Haha... just had to make an attempt to imagine how a die-hard VALVe hater could twist this around. :) This is a really cool gesture by VALVe, and it's good when stuff like this goes for ridiculously high prices, because that money isn't so much just for the poster as it is to benefit those in need.

[Grimbal]

$1,050.00 Wat is wrong with people these's days?, its like they have money to throw away! i know its all for a good cause but really that much for a poster? geez