HalfLife

Maybe it should be called Eighth-Life instead of Half-Life… We’ve pretty much had to accept the fact that Half-Life 3 is never going to happen. That’s… fine, I guess? We still have the original two games, plus Alyx for those of you who…

Half-Life 1 is one of the best first-person shooters ever made, and its fan community is still going strong nearly 25 years after its release. A developer who goes by PinkyDev has recreated the original Half-Life as an…

A demo is out now It seems almost impossible at this stage for there to ever be a third Half-Life game. It’s just been so long, and chances are that a threequel would struggle to live up to the hype. However, there are still new ways…

Condense it back down to your monitors Half-Life: Alys is, by many accounts, a fantastic experience for virtual reality headset owners. But for those who haven’t had the chance yet or don’t have the means, there is also a mod that has now…

Half-Life: Alyx is widely considered one of the best VR games of all time, but not everyone has access to a VR headset. A mod that allows the game to be played on a standard PC setup has reached an important new milestone,…

Marc Laidlaw, a writer for Valve‘s first two Half-Life games and their episodic follow-ups, has admitted it was “deranged” to post an early outline of Half-Life 2: Episode 3‘s plot to his website. In 2017 – one year after leaving Valve –…

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 may not be an official endeavor, but that doesn't mean series writer Marc Laidlaw hasn't pondered a universe after Episode 2. However, he seems to regret publishing those thoughts as an unofficial short…

Ray-sonance cascade If you’ve been holding off on replaying Half-Life until it gussies itself up a bit and Black Mesa doesn’t feel quite the same, you can now apply some simulated photons to it. Programmer Sultim Tsyrendashiev, the…

Half-Life 1 is one of the most beloved PC shooters ever, but its chunky polygons and low-resolution textures might not appeal to those playing it for the first time today. Luckily, modder Sultim_T has crafted a mod that…

Valve-owned Steam has just announced the official schedule for all of the platform's major sales and fests for 2023. This includes the dates of many of Steam's seasonal, themed sale, and Next Fests for the year. The platform has…