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Half-Life: Alyx Speedrunner Isn’t Afraid To Get His Knees Dirty

In Real Life

3 months ago

Half-Life: Alyx Speedrunner Isn’t Afraid To Get His Knees Dirty

Mike Fahey

Valve Failed To Make A Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx

In Real Life

5 months ago

Valve Failed To Make A Lot of Half-Life Games Before Alyx

Zack Zwiezen

Half-Life: Alyx Helped Change Valve’s Approach To Development

In Real Life

5 months ago

Half-Life: Alyx Helped Change Valve’s Approach To Development

Alex Walker

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Since the foundation of Valve’s now-famous no-management work style, the company always believed that staff would be the happiest if they picked their own projects.

But then Half-Life: Alyx came around.

Somebody Turned Half-Life: Alyx Into P.T. In Case You Never Want To Sleep Again

In Real Life

6 months ago

Somebody Turned Half-Life: Alyx Into P.T. In Case You Never Want To Sleep Again

Zack Zwiezen

Even After A Large Increase Due To Half-Life: Alyx, Less Than 2% Of Steam Users Own VR Headsets

In Real Life

7 months ago

Even After A Large Increase Due To Half-Life: Alyx, Less Than 2% Of Steam Users Own VR Headsets

Zack Zwiezen

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Half-Life: Alyx helped lead a large surge of new VR headsets being connected to Steam, according to data from Valve. However, the percentage of Steam users who own VR headsets is still hovering at around 1.9%.

You Have To Use Cheats To See The Only Hidden Watermelon In Half-Life: Alyx

In Real Life

7 months ago

You Have To Use Cheats To See The Only Hidden Watermelon In Half-Life: Alyx

Zack Zwiezen

In Real Life

7 months ago

Valve Intros, Ranked

Zack Zwiezen

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The Simple Idea That Made Half Life: Alyx So Good

PC

8 months ago

The Simple Idea That Made Half Life: Alyx So Good

Alex Walker

Game development can be notoriously complicated. That wasn’t necessarily the case for Half Life: Alyx, though, with one of Valve’s longest-running designers outlining the basic philosophy that made the game the best showcase for VR to date.