Black Mesa has won and broken our hearts on many occasions for the last 8 years. After all this time the free-to-play mod is finally available (albeit not entirely complete). Ha[...]
14 Sep 2012
Steam Greenlight is the latest addition to the Steam platform that lets users up-vote games they think they’ll be willing to pay for. Over the short course of time that Gr[...]
04 Sep 2012
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (or CS:GO) from Valve will be releasing tomorrow to many fans clamoring for another game in the hit series. Originally a mod for the first Half-[...]
20 Aug 2012
Word on the street this week is that the Steam Summer Sales will be upon us at any moment. I’m not really holding my breathe or anything, but I have to admit that the sum[...]
There is no universal law that there must be only a few console manufactures, that we must always have a Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft console. Things change, drastically. It used[...]
Pictured above is an astonishingly accurate depiction of the entire Half-Life game, Xen levels and all. Josh Millard over at his blog Mapstalgia does an excellent job of recreatin[...]
10 Feb 2012
Tag dark souls, drawing, drawing of map, freelancer, half-life, hl, iceworld, josh millard, kanto, maps, mapstalgia, pokemon, valve
In 2008 Jonathan Blow’s Braid released to critical fanfare and shattered expectations of what video games could do with narrative. Each part of the game represented a piece [...]
01 Feb 2012
Tag braid, creative, deus ex, games, half-life, indie games, innovative, jonathan blow, myst, portal, the witness, valve
Next question: Is “protest” just another way of saying “I need an excuse to play Half-Life 2 again?” Because that’s what over 30,000 people are going[...]
01 Feb 2012
This one may take a little convincing. 2011 has been a great year of sequels and sequels of sequels. When the end of the year nears, all of the major publications as well as every[...]
Year after year Valve has been treating us to some quality entertainment that no doubt has greatly improved the FPS genre and generally impressed us all that Valve can actually han[...]
19 Dec 2011
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