Half Life Archive

  • Half-Life 2 launching on Macs this Wednesday

    Half-Life 2 launching on Macs this Wednesday

    It’s so appropriate yet sad that Alyx is tasked with announcing the six-year old Half-Life 2’s Mac launch. But really there’s no shame in playing the some-what old Half-Life 2 even today. It’s one of the games that we agreed with in PC Gamer’s top games of all time list. But it’s yet another sign [...]

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  • Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (and more!) free for ATI, Nvidia gamers

    Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast (and more!) free for ATI, Nvidia gamers

    Here's one for the road: if you have an ATI or Nvidia graphics card you can download Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Half-Life 2: Lost Coast from Steam for free. Woo~!

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  • Can the Nexus One run Quake 3? Yup.

    Can the Nexus One run Quake 3? Yup.

    All this port needs is the Wii Remote hack from earlier and it will be near perfect. A PS3 Bluetooth controller would make it perfect. Now that Quake 3 has been ported, how about some Half-Life action?

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  • What Valve games will look like on Macs

    What Valve games will look like on Macs

    Oh har de har har, Alt Text. You think you’re soooo funny. The site posted a list of proposed changes to popular Valve games, including my fave, Half-Life 2: Half-Life 2 In Half-Life 2, instead of picking ammo off the filthy ground like a common Windows user, you must go to an immaculate white Ammo Store where [...]

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  • Voice actor who played Half-Life 2’s Dr. Breen has passed away

    Voice actor who played Half-Life 2’s Dr. Breen has passed away

    Remember the rash of celebrity deaths last year? Well this one just affected me more than all of those combined. The voice actor who played Dr. Wallace Breen, of Half-Life 2 fame, has passed away. Sad news is sad.

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  • Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

    Steam for Mac: 100 percent official. Try to act surprised. (But still, yay!)

    Steam for Mac is 100 percent official. Valve just released a statement saying it plans to launch it this April. The first games available will be Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Half-Life (and expansions), Counter Strike, and Portal. Portal 2 will be the first game released for Mac and PC simultaneously. Pretty big news, yes.

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  • Aliens vs Predator (2010) demo now available on Steam

    Aliens vs Predator (2010) demo now available on Steam

    There have been more than a dozen and a half AVP games over the last three decades and a new one is prepped to launch on February 16, 2010 on the 360, PS3, and Windows. That's awesome. But the truth is that while I'm going to advice you to fire up Steam and download the demo, I didn't even know there was a new AVP game in development until I saw the news.

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  • What’s it going to take for PC game publishers to drop DRM altogether?

    What’s it going to take for PC game publishers to drop DRM altogether?

    For all of its stupidity, the music industry should be commended for relaxing its DRM requirements. Every single song on iTunes is DRM-free, as are the songs on Amazon MP3 and electronic music specialist Beatport. The Zune Marketplace works a little differently, but many of the downloadable songs there are DRM-free, too. But PC game publishers? They're still bat-shit crazy, as evidenced by the DRM requirements of BioShock 2 and presumably every single one of Ubisoft's upcoming releases. What's it going to take for PC publishers to step back and realize that DRM does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy? Not only that, but that it encourages piracy because the pirated version of the game ends up being superior to the legitimate copy?

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  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 soars past $1 billion in retail sales

    Remember back a couple months? The biggest news on Earth was the Infinity Ward and Activision Blizzard screwed up MW2 and the game was going to fall into a bucket of fail. There were boycotts, petitions, and general chaos concerning the shooter. Then it launched. Then people started playing it in droves. Then people shut-up and within two months the title surpassed $1,000,000,000 in retail sales.

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  • CrunchDeals: The Orange Box for $13

    CrunchDeals: The Orange Box for $13

    If you haven't yet purchased Valve’s Orange Box (which any semi-serious gamer should own just out of principle), now’s probably a good time to do so. It's available for $12.90 until Friday.

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  • Steam has many deals for you to peruse

    Steam has many deals for you to peruse

    Interrupting your Thanksgiving Day weekend (and my Team Fortress 2 Sniper marathon) with a quick deal that will appeal to many of you (I should hope). You know Steam, right, Valve's digital distribution deal? There's a crazy, multi-day Black Friday sale going on right now that includes Left 4 Dead 2 at $37.99 (25 percent off the regular price) and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for $2.49 (75 percent off the regular price). A vanilla bullshit at Starbucks costs more than that.

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  • Instructions for creating an autonomous sentry gun

    Instructions for creating an autonomous sentry gun

    I wanted to make one of these for a long time. The problem was that there were no reasonable tutorials or guides on how to proceed. Additionally I am not a programmer by a long shot so the software was also a problem. This was actually the biggest problem, there was no type of software [...]

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  • Dear Valve, where is Episode 3?

    Dear Valve, where is Episode 3?

    Sometimes less is more. In the case of a fan comic recently posted to Valve's forums, it definitely raises a valid question. Where on earth is Half-Life: Episode 3?

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  • CrunchDeals: Stalker – Shadow of Chernobyl for $5.00

    CrunchDeals: Stalker – Shadow of Chernobyl for $5.00

    Heads up FPS fans. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl is on sale this weekend on Valve's Steam store for a fiver. That's quite the discount off the already quite reasonable price of $20.

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