Are the Half-Life expansions – namely, Blue Shift and Opposing Force – still worth playing in 2023? Let’s find out. The revolutionary first-person shooter Half-Life was released way back in 1998. Its game mechanics and narrative were way ahead of their time. This landmark of gaming set the bar high for all FPS games to…
Certain games cannot be understood with just one playthrough. Like certain films and books – such as Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment – there are complex games that you should play more than once to fully understand. I thoroughly believe that video games are an art form, and…
A great introduction sequence can make a good first impression on the player. Here are the ten best openings in games. Except for the openings themselves, this article contains no major spoilers for the listed games. 10. BioShock No Gods. No Kings. Only Man. Andrew Ryan BioShock is one of the landmarks of the gaming…
Valve product designer Greg Coomer revealed in an interview that both Half-Life and Portal could be among the games in development. Despite Valve’s great history as video game developers, in the last decade and a half, they have not stood out like they used to. Even so, they delivered the best VR game ever in…
Black Mesa has morphed from a fan project to a full-fledged standalone PC game. Eight years after its release as a Half-Life 2 mod, the remake of the original Half-Life is now officially out. If you’ve been following this project since the beginning – like me – then you probably already know that it started…
Valve is letting gamers play all of the games in the Half-Life series for free in the leadup to Half-Life: Alyx. These games are all fairly old now, but they’re still fun to play. The original Half-Life was released back in 1998 while Half-Life 2 came out in 2004. Two years later, Half-Life Episode 1…
Twelve years after the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Valve today announced that there’s a new Half-Life game in development. It’s called Half-Life: Alyx. Details are scant at this point, but one thing we do know is that Half-Life: Alyx will be a virtual reality game. In fact, Valve is calling Alyx their “flagship VR…
