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Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the...
Last year saw the 25th anniversary of Half-Life, one of the most important games in PC history and a spectacular debut for Valve. But in another timeline, it could've been the studio's second game....
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Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' o...
One of this year's GDC highlights was a talk by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company's first chief marketing officer, who went over her history with the company that brough...
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Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an id...
It's the 2025 Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding member of Valve and the company's first chief marketing offic...
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Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and even Day of Defeat have been updated by Valve
It was choppy, unreliable, and populated almost entirely by screamy mic spammers, but my word, do I miss the days of Half-Life Deathmatch Source. It's one of the enduring images of my own PC gaming past - a team of HLDM Source players, all wearing the G-Man skin, sprinting through the Black Mesa ...
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This early version of Half-Life Blue Shift includes a bizarre G-Man moment
Chaos has always seemed to follow Valve and its Half-Life series, and things were no different with its second expansion to the original game. Half-Life Blue Shift was initially meant to be a lucrative new piece of content for the planned Dreamcast port of the iconic shooter that was canceled at ...
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G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into t...
There are certain, well, certainties in life. Death and taxes are two of them, while the fact that Half-Life 3 is probably never coming is a fitting third. Despite a bevvy of occult rumours and whi...
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Half Life suddenly blows up on Steam after launch of brutal new mod
Half-Life, Valve's original FPS classic, isn't short on horror. This, after all, is a game where your fellow scientists get by skull-piercing headcrabs, turned into virtual zombies. But the latest iteration of the Brutal Half-Life mod takes things to the extreme, painting Black Mesa's walls red. ...
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Half Life suddenly blows up on Steam after launch of brutal new mod
Half-Life, Valve's original FPS classic, isn't short on horror. This, after all, is a game where your fellow scientists get by skull-piercing headcrabs, turned into virtual zombies. But the latest iteration of the Brutal Half-Life mod takes things to the extreme, painting Black Mesa's walls red. ...
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New Half-Life Opposing Force fan remake looks just as good as Black Mesa
Opposing Force is quietly one of the best Half-Life games. I like the simplicity of Blue Shift. On the contrary, the overarching plot and the action set pieces of the Half-Life 2 saga still feel fresh 20 years later. Alyx has the tech. The original Half-Life is the original Half-Life. But Adrian ...
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New Half-Life Blue Shift remake is way bigger than the original and playable now
Given how much time has passed since Gordon Freeman first rode the automated transit system into our hearts, I think we're all comfortable now with admitting one unassailable truth: every single moment spent in the original version of Xen is a nightmare. Half-Life 2 is 20 years old. Valve has mar...
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The Half-Life Blue Shift remake, built using Black Mesa, is finally back
Short, grounded, and with regular beer-owing guy Barney as its hero, Blue Shift could be my favorite Half-Life game. Half-Life 1 gets points for originality. Half-Life 2 has excellent set pieces in the form of City 17, the coastal road trip, and Ravenholm. But Blue Shift - like Opposing Force - i...
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October 2, 2024 Update
Fixed multiplayer team setup in Disposal. Fixed Tau Cannon shots always counting as headshots if they reflected off a wall and hit the player who fired. Fixed several minor HUD layout issues. Miscellaneous security fixes.
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A veteran developer found a beta build of Half-Life in his storage unit and has made it available for anyone to download
What's the coolest thing you've ever found while cleaning out your garage or a relative's storage unit? For former game developer Chad Jessup, it's probably the beta version of the original Half-Life he uncovered this month, now shared to the Internet Archive by videogame preservation enthusiast ...
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'New' version of Half-Life discovered with cut content and secrets
2024 has been a goldmine of Half-Life discoveries. The series has sneakily reappeared in a Counter-Strike 2 update, a mysterious Half-Life 2 patch might hint towards 20th-anniversary celebrations, and Half-Life 3 feels closer than it's ever been. There's never been a better time to dig into Gorda...
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Here are some of the best Steam games most own but too few have played
There are some games it feels like literally everyone has played - or at least heard of. Half-Life. Portal. Left 4 Dead. The list goes on, and on, and on. But despite their popularity and status as PC gaming icons, new data from SteamIDFinder shows that the videogames we call classics too often s...
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'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica ...
Looking back on Valve's record of repeated hits and the fact that most of us are playing our PC games under Steam's monolithic shadow, it's tempting to think that this was the only w...