An hour of new footage from Arkane’s canceled Half-Life game, Ravenholm, has been released. It looks like the studio which would go on to make Dishonored was already bringing its immersive sim talents to Valve’s sci-fi universe. As the title suggests, Ravenholm would’ve taken you back to the zombie-infested town, …
Read More »Half-Life 2: Ravenholm emerges in new documentary footage
A new documentary shows what could have been for Ravenholm, AKA Half-Life: Episode 4. The Noclip documentary follows Arkane, the developer of Prey and Dishonored, through two decades of history and several canceled projects. Looming largest is Ravenholm, a Half-Life 2 episode that was never officially announced (opens in new …
Read More »Prepare for Half-Life: Alyx with Half-Life 1 and 2 for $1 each
The original Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are now just $1 each on Steam (opens in new tab), leaving you with little reason not to catch up on the series before Half-Life: Alyx (opens in new tab) releases in March. Whether you’ve played through the first two Half-Life games or not, …
Read More »The making of Half-Life 2: Valve takes us behind the scenes of its narrative masterpiece
It’s difficult to get anyone at Valve to tell you that Half-Life 2 was a great game. Its staff are quick to credit their competitors with a similar will for innovation, and are reticent to posit themselves as sole pioneers. Though they acknowledge the pile of awards the game has …
Read More »Half-Life 3: Ex-Valve writer shares fan fiction thats as close as well get to a Episode 2 sequel
We’ll probably never get another Half-Life game (opens in new tab), but where official Valve canon fails us, series writer Marc Laidlaw does not. The former Valve employee who wrote Half-Life, Half-Life 2, and both of Half-Life 2’s episodes has shared a fictional letter on his personal site (opens in …
Read More »How Valve cracked open the FPS formula and then put it back together in Half-Life 2
Gordon Freeman has nothing to say. Well, not verbally anyway. As one of gaming’s best-known silent protagonists, he has no syllables to utter and no quips to dispense. Freeman’s lack of chat is a deliberate black hole of meaning. And yet that’s exactly what Valve needed to craft an FPS …
Read More »Valve to (finally) reveal Steam Box plans next week
“There are sets of issues to making sure whatever platform you have works well in a living room environment. There are thermal issues and sound issues, but there also a bunch of input issues. So the next step in our contribution to this [the promotion of Linux for gaming] is …
Read More »Valve debunks Half Life 3 rumors
Following months of alleged hints, leaks, and hidden code, Valve has put a full-stop to Half Life 3 speculation with a post declaring it is in no way responsible for the recent teases, and that any rumors of the sequel’s existence are the work of wishful fans alone. “You are …
Read More »The Top 7… enemies that scuttle and jump at your face
The Facehuggers from the Alien films are the archetypal enemies that scuttle and jump at your face. If these scuttling, jumping-at-your-face enemies had never been invented, video games would probably have 100% less scuttling enemies launching themselves in the general direction of your face area. Thankfully, not all the gaming …
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