Novint Falcon to support more Valve game titles

Posted Jun 25th 2008 7:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Downloads, Hardware

The folks at Novint have demoed their unique force feedback PC game controller the Novint Falcon by, among other means, using Valve's Half-Life 2. The demo allowed people to use the controller to "feel" effects like weapon fire recoil, the weight of holding objects like barrels and even feel textures in the game world. Now IGN is reporting that Novint and Valve are planning to expand their relationship.

The report states that Valve plans to support the Novint Falcon beyond just Half-Life 2 to cover all of the games covered in their Orange Box collection (Half-Life 2, Episodes One and Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) along with Counter-Strike Source and the upcoming Left 4 Dead. Novint will also release a special Orange Box version of the Falcon controller later this year. A new pistol grip attachment for the Falcon should start shipping to stores soon.

Tags: counter-strike, half-life-2, left-4-dead, novint-falcon, portal, team-fortress-2, the-orange-box, valve

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

I tried the pistol attachment at GDC for hl2 -- very realistic!... I want to try it with the portal gun. Maybe they'll have it ready for E3?Posted at 2:34PM on Jul 3rd 2008 by luke