Peter Molyneux’s son really wants Half-Life 2: Episode 3
Peter Molyneux, one time hero of the PC, one-time head of Lionhead, now doomed to make Fable 3, 4, 7 and 9* appears to really want Half-Life 2: Episode 3. So much so that he’s prepared to make his son,...
View ArticleExplosive Half-Life 2 fan-film emerges
In the fast-paced world of PC gaming, Half-Life 2 may be considered ‘getting on a bit’, but its fan base still stands strong. No better evidence could be found than this great fan-film, telling the...
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Valve writers talk silent protagonists and bringing the LOLs
As reported on Gamasutra, a bunch of Valve’s writers have been taking part in a roundtable question and answer session at GDC Online. Read on for some insight from some of the most talented writers in...
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Valve employee wears Half-Life 3 shirt, trolls internet
It’s just a man in a T-shirt of course, but there’s a Half-Life 3 logo on the front of it and a Valve employee inside it. Art director and executive producer at UberEnt (the team behind Super Monday...
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28,000 fans to play Half-Life 2 this Saturday, why not join them?
This Saturday the 28,000 members of this Steam group are planning to play Half-Life 2 together. It’s single player, of course, but there’s nothing stopping fans from getting together to stroke their...
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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 silence due to development “twists and turns” says Newell
Gabe Newell been talking about the Valve sequel everyone wants, Half Life 2: Episode 3, in terms of the Valve sequel no-one wants, Ricochet 2. With almost audible air quotes around each mention of a...
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Black Mesa: Source screenshots bring back memories, BM:S lives!
It’s alive! A bunch of new screenshots have gone online for Black Mesa: Source. In case you’d missed it, or forgotten it in these years of silence, BM:S is a fan project that aims to recreate the...
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Slender Man Source mod will let you scare the hell out of yourself for free,...
Remember the Slender Man game we mentioned a couple of weeks back? It’s a terrifying indie horror based on the spooky Something Awful monster. You had to wander through a dark forest with a pale torch...
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“Next-gen Source 2″ references spotted in Source Filmmaker files
It looks as though Valve are working on a proper follow up to the Source Engine they’ve been gradually improving over the course of the last decade. Valve Time have pulled numerous references to a...
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Black Mesa: Source video shows renovated On A Rail mission in action
Some leaked footage claiming to belong to the elusive Black Mesa Source mod has appeared over on Valve Time, showing some classic weapons and environments renovated in Valve’s Source engine. The video...
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Half-Life 3 and Dragon Age 3 Gamescom listings “a mistake” say organisers
Everyone’s been getting pretty excited this morning about the possibility of a big Half-Life 3 reveal at Gamescom. That’s thanks to a pdf on the Gamescom site listing Half-Life 3 as one of the...
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Rise and mine, Mr. Freeman: Early Half-Life levels recreated in Minecraft
Of all the user-made interpretations of Half-Life’s doomed resonance cascade in the Black Mesa facility, the version fashioned by Minecraft modder “Xannot” might very well include the first...
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Guillermo del Toro has the right “horror vibe” to direct a Half-Life film,...
Hollywood studios have approached Valve in the past to explore the possibility of adapting Half-Life for the silver screen, but before you could spit out “Uwe Boll,” Valve declared that any sort of...
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Black Mesa: Uplink mod recreates Half-Life demo with Source graphics
Remember Uplink? (No, not that Uplink.) Valve called its original demo for Half-Life “Uplink” in 1999. It took place during Gordon Freeman’s journey through the spooky Lambda Core, but Valve...
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Half-Life 2 Gravity Gun replica selling in 2013, sadly obeys gravity
“You can call it the Zero-Point Energy Field Manipulator if you really want to,” Half-Life 2′s Alyx Vance said as we were introduced to the Gravity Gun, one of the most memorable physics-twisting...
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NECA open up Gravity Gun pre-orders
The Half-Life 2 Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator Replica will go on sale in April, but they’re going to be pretty tough to get hold of. Joystiq have noticed a sales page on Think Geek offering...
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Garry’s Mod has earned nearly $22 million over seven years
Source: http://bit.ly/XQp76W Garry’s Mod, that wonderful physics sandbox of posable characters doing very silly things, has done rather well since attaching a $10 price for its tomfoolery back in 2006....
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The Half-Life 2 Spherical Nightmares mod is good and you should play it
Some mods want to re-invent the game they’re based on, but when that game is Half-Life 2, there’s no need. In mods like Minerva (highly recommended, if you haven’t played it), the creators treat...
View ArticleGabe Newell: Valve’s business increased by 50 percent last year
Valve boss Gabe Newell stepped up to the stage during last week’s BAFTA awards to receive the prestigious Academy Fellowship for his contributions to gaming. Presumably momentarily distracted by...
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Half-Life 2 mod Minerva getting Director’s Cut, Steam release
Adam Foster, creator of the brilliant Episode One mod Minerva, works for Valve now. Clearly then, the temptation for this Director’s Cut news is to lead with the implication that Valve are releasing a...
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