Half-Life

By DigiQ8 Gamasutra had an interview with Laidlaw and fellow Valve writer Erik Wolpaw. Laidlaw made some comments on Gordon Freeman's development as a lead character and how it has more to do with his external interactions rather than internal mechanisms. So we were trying to do a thing where it wasn...

By DigiQ8 A group of CERN lovers have taken a trip to the CERN tunnels (where Gordon Freeman had been spotted last year). The pictures show a great resemblance between the CERN tunnels and the original Half-Life settings. To read more about their trip, click here.

CSS SCI FI 3: Hardwired is a single-player modification for Half-Life 2. Waking up to find himself an augmented clone of Gordon Freeman, the player must fight time-travelling Combine forces and other enemies across 42 unique and replayable missions. Missions are set in 18 retail and 24 cu...

Let's start with the best FPS games ever made, Half Life and Half Life 2. Valve's masterpieces deserves a mention in every list, as the gameplay and plot ...

Gamasutra When he joined Valve during development of Half-Life, Laidlaw said his biggest contribution was simply in assuring the team that the problem was both common ... GDC Austin: Half-Life, Portal Scribes Talk Writing ProcessGamasutra

By www.hlgaming.com - We have Cookies I'm not the type of person who enjoys sitting down and spending time for what is simply a Half-Life 2 map pack, most will need more than just a few kill rooms to tickle my fancy, but RnD does a fantastic job of putting the focus off combat and taking what Half-Life 2 promised from the beginning a...

By geoffcalver Half Life 2: Episode Two begins right where Episode 1 left off. The Citadel has come crashing to the ground, City 17 is in ruins, and your train out of dodge has derailed. You awake to find Alyx outside, thankful you’re alive. She helps you out using the Gravity Gun, and thus begins your mission.

By geoffcalver Half Life 2: Episode Two begins right where Episode 1 left off. The Citadel has come crashing to the ground, City 17 is in ruins, and your train out of dodge has derailed. You awake to find Alyx outside, thankful you’re alive. She helps you out using the Gravity Gun, and thus begins your mission.

His leaving inspires Gabe Newell and Mike Harrington to leave Microsoft as well. Gabe and Mike go on to form Valve Corporation, later releasing an onslaught of best sellers including Half-Life, Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, and Portal. ...

A new trailer of Episode 2. Warning: May contain coolness and mindblowing awesomeness....Also Dog fighting a Strider. www.gamespot.com

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By Brandon All in all, however, my faults with the game play is a result of my preferences, not any glaring flaws.  Be it 2009 or 1998, Half-Life is a work of genius.  Portal remains Valve’s true masterpiece, but Half-Life is certainly something of which they should always be proud.

In this tutorial learn the fundimentals of the Source SDK and make a textured box room in Hammer and begin making your own levels in Half Life 2 ... it.truveo.com

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By rss@youtube.com (Neomatrix125) How to get Half - Life 1 on PSP Files: HL.zip (Half life Kurok Mod) http://postdownload.filefront.com/12088502//96bc14fb4502f146edadfac79f96977078afcf9864b1646f81515e7f3aa7d4b477b6d2303d33da37 Kurok: http://www.bladebattles.com/kurok/files.html Just put hl in ms0:/PSP...

By noreply@blogger.com (Adam Whitehead) Half-Life 2 (****½) is no longer available as a solo game in the UK, but only as part of The Orange Box, alongside Episode One, Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and the spectacular Portal. This package, available for the PC, X-Box 360 and PlayStation 3, is well-recommended. The game is still avai...

By Luke Plunkett While FakeFactory goes a step too far in adding new character models - that look downright awful - those technical tweaks ("before" & "after" comparison clip below) are still enough to get me digging around looking for my copy of Half-Life 2.

By Kevin Poulsen In September 2003, the source code for the much-anticipated Half Life 2game turned up online, and Valve's managing director, Gabe Newell, revealed that the company's network had been breached. In a postto the company's web forum, Newell asked for gamer's assistance in finding the hack...

The Fistful of Frags Website now offers a new version 2.0 of this western-themed modification for Half-Life 2 (Thx:Blue's News). Described as a "massive" update, this point release incorporates the Source "OrangeBox" engine "bringing to ...

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Anyway, here is why you should play HL2 if you haven't already:Gameplay: VALVe shows why it is one of the best FPS developers in the industry. A very "refined" FPS experience with great pacing & tight controls.Audio: Superb audio design. My Dolby Digtial 5.1 system got a nice work-out wit...

By Daimyo FoF: I started modding (in a serious way) with Half-Life 2, I guess the choice was made before the mod development started. I feel comfortable with Source, it has the widest modding community and Valve has a good track of modding support.

By MIG-31 A new version 1.9.4 of the SourceForts modification for Half-Life 2 is now available as an updated full client or as a patch for the previous version of this tower defense--style project. The new version address bugs and exploits, ...

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This is the newly released patch for the popular Half-Life 2 mod Eternal Silence that will bring your game client from version 3.0 to version 3.1. It fixes the gameplay and balance problems uncovered in 3.0 and is certainly a must have update.

By jeremy@pcgamerpodcast.com (PC Gamer Magazine) On this weeks show we recount what it was like to discover Half-Life 10 years ago. Then we find out how strong an industry we the PC can be. Also, the editors give their Wotlk, L4D, and Fallout 3 impressions, answer a few listener questions and more.

By Hangmen Most epic Half Life fanfic ever written. Technorati tags: 2007, Blog, Comedy, Fanfiction, Hangmen, Humor, Internet, Parody, Retarded, Superior Internet Content, Weblog, Youtube. John Freeman who was Gordon Freemans brother was one day in an office typing on a computer. He got an email f...

Everyone's favourite* Half-Life 2 zombie mod has just received a new update, just two days after the previous one. There's no mention of what 1.21b fixes, but if you plan on playing the survival horror mod online, you'll have no choice but to update. If missed the 1.2b patch released on Feb 16, i...

By tech-geek How cool would it be to build your own levels and customized weapons for Half-Life 2? This book will get you ready to mod so you can enjoy the ultimate gaming experience. You'll find out how to create your own maps, strategically place ...

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Includes Half-Life Multiplayer, Counterstrike Mod (play as terrorists or counter-terrorists), Team Fortress Classic (think WW2 live!), Opposing Force Multiplayer (adds marines and new equipment of Half-Life MP), and the best fan-created ...

Today's guide will teach you, step-by-step, how to install and play Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Portal and Team Fortress 2 (all part of the grandiose Orange Box) on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gusty Gibbon). ...

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By Adam Whitehead The game is currently available on the PC in the UK and USA, the X-Box 360 in the UK and USA, and the PlayStation 3 in the UK and USA as part of The Orange Box, which also includes Portal and Team Fortress 2 plus Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 1.

By *Legion* Next up is Gearbox’s little-known third Half-Life expansion, Decay. While Decay was only officially released as an added chapter to the PlayStation 2 port of Half-Life, a mod team has been hard at work porting it to the PC (I previously stated on this blog that the mod was a Source-engine mo...

By Michael McWhertor Playing through all parts of Valve's The Orange Box for the PlayStation 3--a port handled externally by EA UK--I've experienced quite a ride. I've played through Episode Two, a surprisingly long and enjoyable continuation of the Half-Life 2 story, and revisited Episode One, a game much...

By Simon Carless What's your job on 'Half-Life' currently entail? Half-Life will rule because... Lo and behold, what an embarrassment of riches, including Counter-Strike, Team Fortress, Day Of Defeat, and many more.] What's the part of Half-Life that you're most proud of thinking up/designing?

By Glen D. On a side note, The Orange Box PC version owners have not reported any trouble with their version of Team Fortress 2. The Orange Box also includes Half-Life 2: Episode Two and Portal.

Aching for a little Portal action in Half-Life 2? Well, you shall ache no longer! Thanks to the kind souls at Primotech, you now have detailed instructions on how to add Portal's portal ability to Half-Life 2! ...

By Chris You can see in the video above – complete with Radiohead music – a tutorial of how to get the Half-Life 2 Deathmatch map Overwatch into Portal and how to spawn a portal gun. While it’s still a long way from playing with others, ...

By Alec Meer Matt Malesky sends the below short tutorial video he’s made of how to get the Portal gun up and running in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch maps. No actual multiplay yet (update - some commentators on this piece hold that this may not ultimately ...

Bungie and Microsoft get divorced, Valve Interview Explores Why There Is No Mac Half-Life, FIFA 08 Heading To Mac?, UT3 PC specs released, No UT3 editor for mac?, CMR Mac date "announced".

The Orange Box game bundle that will include Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2, and Portal, as well as Half-Life 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode One, has gone gold, Shacknews reports. The site has received official confirmation from ...

By John Bardinelli In a brilliantly concocted promotion, Valve announced today that owners of ATI Radeon graphics cards can score a handful of free games via Steam. Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch are among the freebies, and the promotion includes discounts on other games as well. In add...

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Source, the technology that powered Valve's Half-Life® 2, is already the benchmark game technology on Microsoft's Windows platform, offering state of the art performance in graphics, networking, artificial intelligence, physics simulation and more.

Version of Half-Life 2 engine optimized for Microsoft's console now available as developer middleware.

 - Oct 3, 2006 Valve's Gabe Newell (right) says he's looking to evaluate how Half-Life 2's episodic content has been received before going past Ep. III. ...

There have been a couple earlier attempts at in-game commentary, most notably the "Developer's Cut" of The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004), a game that sounds awful but is widely considered one of the best modern first-person shooters. Valve was clearly inspired b...

By Armin Siljkovic Half Life 2 has sold millions of copies and won countless awards for its excellent achievement in creating a cinematic gaming experience. The official sequel, Episode 1, used to be called "Aftermath," but developer Valve chose to split it up in three Episodes, released over two years. The...

By Armin Siljkovic The original SiN game came out at about the same time as Half Life, in 1997. And as Half Life stole all the attention, not much was left for SiN, witch was a mediocre game, all things considered. Now the first of several episodes has been released via Steam, and sports a few hours of game play for r...

By Brian Crecente In an effort to prevent further dog shit Half-Life 2 maps, Leak Free has come up with a guide to good level design. The online tutorial includes to basic introductions to level design, a walk-through for making a two room, one hall map (that s about my level of ability) and how to create a sunse...

Multiplayer Rank Game My Thoughts 1 Half-Life 2 Great graphics, great puzzles, great story, great feel, great experience. Steam rocks with auto-updates and patching. My favorite and the ultimate FPS PC game so far. 2 Halo 2 Unparalleled totally seamless multiplayer with up to 16 folks tra...