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Fans Discover Half-Life 2 Corpse Has Actual Dead Human’s Face
23.12.2022
If you’ve played Half-Life 2 or Source engine mods, you’ve likely seen the in-game model “Corpse01.mdl.” The burnt corpse appears multiple times in Half-Life 2’s sewers and other parts of the game, and modders often used it in fan projects. All is well, yes? Well, it was until recently, when fans...
Half-Life 2’s Excellent VR Mod Is Almost Too Good To Be True
1.10.2022
As of last week, a long-held dream of playing Valve’s landmark 2004 shooter Half-Life 2 in virtual reality has finally come to fruition. The journey began nearly 10 years ago, when a man named Nathan Andrews managed to hack together a functioning version of the all-time classic in VR. This...
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...
Stray Almost Feels Like A Modern Valve Game
29.7.2022
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Modder Sorta Gets Half-Life 2 Running On Switch (It's Actually Portal)
30.6.2022
So, Portal: The Companion Collection, a bundle of Valve’s 3D puzzle-platformers Portal and Portal 2, just dropped on the Nintendo Switch. But not long after its surprise release during this week’s Direct Mini Partner Showcase, a modder named OatmealDome has already figured out a way to get...
Devs Share The Wild, Secret Hacks Your Favorite Games Rely On
23.6.2022
Did you know all the horses in Assassin’s Creed 1 are built using really fucked up human skeletons? Or that Titan Quest used invisible squirrels as in-game timers? All of this is true and is more proof that games are mostly wild collections of code and hope that have more in common with miracles...
A Very Long Look At A Cancelled Half-Life Game
5.5.2022
From 2005 to 2008, French studio Arkane—who we now know as the team behind Dishonored and Deathloop—were working on a Half-Life game. We knew this, and have even seen the game before, but today we got a real good look at it.Read more
Jak vypadal typický herní počítač v roce 2004, kdy vyšel Half-Life 2 a další legendární hry?
18.4.2022
Valve pravidelně zveřejňuje hardwarové a softwarové statistky počítačů, na kterých je nainstalovaná aplikace Steam pro hraní her. Co se používá dnes, o tom píšeme krátce většinou každý měsíc, kde lze vidět i postupné menší změny. Jak ale vypadal rok 2004, kdy vyšla legendární herní pecka Half-Life
Video Game Faces Might Finally Start Bridging The Uncanny Valley
25.11.2021
Photorealistic faces in video games have been with us for a while, but they’ve still been a long way from what you’d call realistic, as while we’ve got the polygons and texturing almost perfected, facial animations remain are still stuck in the depths of the uncanny valley.Read more
Steam Turns 18 Years Old Today
12.9.2021
Steam, the digital PC storefront, officially launched to the public 18 years ago today, on September 12, 2003. I didn’t realize just how old Steam was and by extension how old I’ve gotten. I guess time flies when your buying, downloading, and installing a bunch of games that you’ll end up never...
Vzniká neoficiální remaster Half-Life 2
3.8.2021
Stejně jako před lety první díl se dočká své moderní verze i Half-Life 2. Neoficiální modifikaci mají na starosti zkušení tvůrci, kteří už si v herní komunitě vybudovali jméno
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...
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...
Half-Life 2: Survivor je nejbizarnějším dílem série, ale má své kouzlo
10.4.2021
Málo známý Half-Life 2: Survivor je arkádový automat, který vyšel pouze v Japonsku. Hrát na něm je velmi výstřední zážitek, ale žádný fanda série by si ho neměl nechat ujít
Classic Half-Life 2 Mod Neotokyo Gets A Singleplayer Spinoff
6.4.2021
Neotokyo is an absolute PC gaming classic, a (somehow) free mod for Half-Life 2 that remains one of the prettiest and coolest multiplayer shooters on the planet. And now, 12 years after its first release, it has a singleplayer experience for fans to play through.Read more
The Half-Life 2 RTS Is Finally "Out" After 13 Years Of Development
23.2.2021
For over a decade now, a group of fans have been working on Lambda Wars, a real-time strategy game set in the Half-Life universe. Originally a Half-Life 2 mod, and later a standalone beta, the thing is now finished, or as finished as a game ever gets these days, anyway.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
Nvidia přidá podporu ray tracingu do dalších starších her. Čekat můžeme Half-Life 2 nebo Doom 3
21.10.2019
Když Nvidia uvedla poslední generaci grafických karet GeForce RTX, byla největší novinkou podpora nasvícení scény pomocí ray tracingu. Jenže nových her, které tuto technologii přijaly, nebylo tolik, kolik bylo zprvu slibováno. Některá herní studia dokonce podporu pro ray tracing následně zrušila.