Half-Life
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This Half-Life mod remakes Valve's classic shooter to be both longer and wider, and it has radically altered my perception of the original
By Rick Lane published
Unforeseen consequences Half-Life: Extended is a surprisingly effective reinterpretation of Black Mesa.

Valve considered making a 'B title' before Half-Life, until an exec told Gabe Newell 'that's just not gonna work… the company will fail'
By Rich Stanton published
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Former Valve exec says the company struggled to sell Half-Life until coming up with the ultimate 'one simple trick' of marketing manoeuvres: slapping a 'Game of the Year' sticker on the box
By Rich Stanton published
News "Okay, so you've done the game. Now what happens?"

Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the risk to make other people rich'
By Rich Stanton published
News "Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games."

G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
By Harvey Randall published
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

20 years after Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3 remains the stuff of occult whisperings: Here's every rumor we've heard about the sequel that may or may not exist
By Andy Chalk last updated
Half-Lies A look back at 20 years of not playing the most essential sequel in videogame history.

A veteran developer found a beta build of Half-Life in his storage unit and has made it available for anyone to
By Ted Litchfield published
news Videogame preservation in action.

'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster
By Lincoln Carpenter published
News Publisher woes almost doomed Valve from the start.
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