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Are You Intrigued By The Steam Deck?
19.7.2021
It’s Monday and time for Ask Kotaku, the weekly feature in which Kotaku-ites deliberate on a single burning question. Then, we ask your take.Read more
A Nearly 20-Year-Old Half-Life Easter Egg Was Just Found
10.7.2021
At the very end of Half-Life: Decay there’s a tiny Easter egg to be found, but only if you change your perspective and pay close attention to a destroyed computer. Read more
The Original Half-Life Could Have Had So Much Blood
9.7.2021
The original Half-Life is a pretty tame game from a violence standpoint; headcrabs and other enemies can inspire revulsion in their own ways, but they don’t explode into Mortal Kombat-style gore piñatas when thwacked with a crowbar. But they could have.Read more
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....
The Best Star Wars Video Game
5.5.2021
You’ve no doubt seen countless lists of the best video games set in the Star Wars universe today, since so many websites like to do those things on May 4. I’d like to try something a little different, and tell you what the best Star Wars video game is. Read more
Hades Wins Game Of The Year At The 2021 DICE Awards
22.4.2021
Beloved indie game Hades scored the most wins at this year’s DICE Awards. Supergiant’s excellent roguelike action game ultimately won five awards, including “Game of the Year.”Read more
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
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
12 Romantic Movies to Thaw Even the Coldest Hearts
11.2.2021
You’d be forgiven for not being thrilled about celebrating a(nother?) pandemic Valentine’s Day. It’s often a fraught, stressful occasion in the best of times. This year, while everything is still terrible, we can’t even go out to a restaurant. (Or we shouldn’t—don’t be a dweeb.)Read more
The First Character You Meet In Half-Life Is Gus The Forklift Driver
8.2.2021
You probably know Gordon Freeman is, the silent protagonist of the Half-Life games. And I’m guessing you know other Half-Life characters, like Alyx Vance, Dr. Kliner, the mysterious G-Man, and Barney. But a recent YouTube video pays homage to the very first character you encounter in Half-Life:...
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
Zack Zwiezen's Top 10 Games Of 2020
19.12.2020
When I first sat down to put together this list, I wrote down two titles and then sat and thought for a while about what else I played. I think this year has thrown my whole mind into a strange funk, because I couldn’t even name 10 games I had played, let alone loved.Read more
The Bitcoin Cash Halving Countdown – 50% Less Block Reward in 4 Days
4.4.2020
The Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network will face a halving in four days and many BCH proponents are getting ready for the big day. Unfortunately, the covid-19 outbreak has overshadowed the halving and BCH has dropped in value by roughly 30% since the end of February. Also Read: Bitcoin Halving Will Drop...
Bitcoin Miners Are Selling Coins Faster Than They Can Generate Them
27.3.2020
According to data sites and a number of observers, bitcoin miners are selling coins faster than they can produce them. Ever since the market downturn on March 12 and the week of falling prices that followed, bitcoin miners have been struggling. Also read: Bitcoin Hashrate Down 45% – Miners...
Crypto Mining Crunch Time – Bitcoin Halving Less Than 50 Days Away While Global Economy Shudders
24.3.2020
On or around May 13, the BTC network will see a block reward reduction as miners will go from getting 12.5 coins per block to 6.25 coins following the halving. The last time the protocol’s block reward halved was on July 9, 2016, and the global economy looked a whole lot different back then....