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Valve Made About A Billion Dollars On Counter-Strike Loot Boxes In 2023
23.1.2024
According to new data, it appears that Valve likely made about $1 billion from digital Counter-Strike 2 (previously Global Offensive) cases and keys in 2023. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” Read more
Ron Swanson Visits Half-Life 2’s Europe, Hates Every Minute Of It
30.8.2023
Park and Rec’s own Ronald Ulysses “Ron” Swanson, the internet’s favorite small-government libertarian, is the latest television character to visit a video game in a new video from talented YouTube creator eli_handle_b․wav.Read more
New Valve Concept Art Is A Treasure Trove Of Canceled Games
29.6.2023
If you want more visuals from gaming’s very own Loch Ness Monster, that of course being the followup to Half-Life 2: Episode Two, I have some good news for you. Following DidYouKnowGaming’s recent video on canceled Valve games, the YouTuber has released a huge collection of high-resolution concept...
The Best VR Game Doesn't Require VR Anymore
11.4.2023
A clever mod makes it so that Half-Life: Alyx, the Half-Life series VR exclusive, no longer requires a VR set up to play. Appropriately titled “Half-Life: Alyx NoVR,” the mod allows you to experience the game’s full campaign without an Oculus Quest 2 to your name. This isn’t the first mod...
What You Should Know About Horizon Call of the Mountain, PS VR2's Biggest Game
16.2.2023
A fully realized VR experience in the world of Sony’s Horizon franchise is an exciting prospect indeed, but Horizon Call of the Mountain can’t fully deliver on that promise. It’s too small in scope, has a surplus of arcadey combat scenarios that instantly break immersion with their rigid structure...
New Half-Life 2: Episode Three Concept Art Reveals What Could Have Been
30.8.2022
Avid Valve fan and collector David McGreavy just shared a large trove of unseen concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode Three and other unreleased Valve projects as part of his effort to preserve this history for the future. Read more
Half-Life 2 Will Soon Be Playable In VR
11.8.2022
After years in development, and loads of ups and downs along the way, the developers of a virtual reality mod for the original Half-Life 2 have announced a public beta that’ll be kicking off next month.Read more
New Steam Shooter Is Basically Half-Life 2 And It Rules
5.8.2022
I’ve probably written this before on this very website, but whenever someone asks me what my favorite video game is, my default answer is Half-Life 2. So any game that tries to capture Half-Life 2’s excellent mix of exploration, action, puzzle-solving, and emptiness has my attention. And if that...
Valve's Fake Games Look Great, Actually
9.7.2022
This year’s Steam Summer Sale is over, so say goodbye to all the deals. But say hello to some rad-looking art! With the sale over, an artist at Valve is now free to share all the fake video game key art and covers that she helped create that were hidden inside Steam’s large digital catalog as part...
Dude Recreates His Living Room In Half-Life, Blasts It To Hell
23.5.2022
3D artist Graham Rust has a Valve Index VR headset and some skills with modelling, so decided for fun that he’d take Half-Life: Alyx and bring some of its action inside his own house.Read more
Portal Writer Wants Valve To Make Next Game Before He's 'Too Old To Work' On It
18.4.2022
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.Read more
Half-Life: Alyx Is Even Better With A Weird, Talking Gnome
22.1.2022
Half-Life: Alyx is great. One of the best virtual reality games I’ve ever played and one of my favorite 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.Read...
Resident Evil 4 Is Somehow Even Better In VR
11.11.2021
Converting standard games into VR is rarely a recipe for greatness. Sure, a few fan mods have created fun ways to replay classic shooters like Quake in VR, but most 2D conversions don’t feel like a great way to experience the original game. Resident Evil 4 on Oculus Quest 2 shatters this rule,...
Ancient ‘90s Code From Quake Still Controls Lights In Half-Life: Alyx
16.6.2021
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....
15 Years Ago This Month, Valve Announced Half-Life 2: Episode 3
28.5.2021
It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004's Half-Life 2. But it’s actually been 15 years since Episode 3 was announced. And while Valve has since released a new Half-Life game, it wasn’t the one the developer announced back...
Half-Life: Alyx Almost Had Enemies Who Reacted When You Flipped Them Off
21.5.2021
Hands. You wouldn’t have human civilization without them, meaning you wouldn’t have video games, either. Or, like, houses. But even though hands are front and center in many games, we don’t talk about them all that often. On this week’s episode of Splitscreen, we stop keeping hands at arm’s length....
No-VR Mod Brings Half Life: Alyx To Players Who Can't Afford Headsets
17.4.2021
By all accounts, Half Life: Alyx is a phenomenal game. But because it’s VR-only, large swathes of gamers simply cannot play it due to the high costs of VR hardware and the computers to support it. To remedy this, modders have been working on No VR mods for Alyx, with varying levels of success.Read...
Summer Games Done Quick Returns In July As Online-Only Event
30.3.2021
Annual charity speedrunning festival Summer Games Done Quick will return as an online-only event, running from July 4 through 11.Read more
Half-Life & BioShock Come Together In A Very Strange Mod
23.3.2021
Return to Rapture is a “campaign” made for Half-Life: Alyx that takes Valve’s star and drops her into the completely unrelated first-person world of 2007's BioShock.Read more
Let's Rank The Half-Life Games, From Worst To Best
10.1.2021
The Half-Life franchise contains some of the best and most beloved video games ever made. While the vast majority of the series is very good, they can’t all be equally great. Let’s rank ‘em!Read more