Half-Life 1 kicked off one of the most influential video game franchises ever, as the title completely changed the way in which the first-person shooter genre was approached, depa ...

"I told Gabe that I thought the only way that Half-Life was really going to work was if it was named Game of the Year" ...

Early builds of Valve's Half-Life 2 originally spent far more time in the sewers, so much so that it led straight back to the Citadel.

In the finished Half-Life 2, there's a section where Gordon and Alyx are fighting through City 17 trying to reach Barney, and come to a destroyed bridge. You end up dropping down to the canal before a ...

Life, co-op survival crafting game Abiotic Factor moves towards 1.0 as Deep Field details its Cold Fusion update.

Harrington says Valve was headhunting developers in the late 90s, and one of the ideas linked to this was to work on another ...

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Shenmue has topped a BAFTA poll to find the most influential video game of all time. The 1999 Dreamcast release may have ...

An incredibly detailed BioShock mod is now playable in Half Life Alyx. With all that said, this is a demanding game to run, with some players having trouble running the game on their PC.

Half-Life: Alyx is five years old. Though it only felt like two or three years for many of us. In fact, the pandemic nearly postponed the launch of the game altogether. Half-Life: Alyx launched in ...

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