half life
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Portal Writer Wants Valve To Make Next Game Before He’s ‘Too Old To Work’ On It
Erik Wolpaw, co-writer of the Portal series, would love to work on a third game. There are just a few problems: He’s one developer out of hundreds of staff and he’s not sure that Valve would go for another Portal game’s profit margins.
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Half-Life: Alyx Is Even Better With A Weird, Talking Gnome
Half-Life: Alyx is great. One of the best virtual reality games I’ve ever played and one of my favourite games of 2020. Hard to improve on that. Yet, a new let’s play series has found one way to make Valve’s VR hit even better: Add a really weird and annoying self-aware gnome to the adventure.
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Sorry Folks, Valve Is Still Not Working On Half-Life 3
By now, you know the drill. Those of you waiting long by the river for Half-Life 3 news are well used to hearing that it’s not coming. You’ll be unsurprised to learn that, yes, it is still not coming. Spoilers for the conclusion of Half-Life Alyx follow. Despite Half-Life: Alyx allusions that Gordon Freeman’s story would continue, Tyler…
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Ancient ’90s Code From Quake Still Controls Lights In Half-Life: Alyx
Reddit user CrazyGiaky noticed something interesting about the flickering lights in Half-Life Alyx. When compared next to flickering lights in the original Half-Life game, the two seemed to sync up. It seemed like Valve was still using the same bit of code to control these lights 22 years later. And that’s exactly what’s going on!