Tag Archives: Half-Life 2

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, …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

“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 …

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 …

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 …