Latest about Half-Life 2
Ex Valve designer reveals the door and big toe that retroactively broke Half-Life 2: "This isn't a normal bug - it appears to have traveled backwards in time and infected the original!"
News "The two biggest bug-farms in gamedev - doors and floating point - contrived to make a simple NPC placement bug into quite the time-travelling palaver"
"That was not going to work for Valve": Canceled Half-Life spinoff game Ravenholm was "great, frankly," says Arkane founder, but it couldn’t survive under Valve's "very clear business plan"
News Ravenholm didn't stand a chance
"Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev
News "I knew Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games"
Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
News The 20th anniversary update included some annoying changes for speedrunners
Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies
News Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too
Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Valve lead Gabe Newell thought just “pushing the story forward” wasn’t a good enough reason to make a game
News “We could’ve shipped it, it wouldn’t have been that hard”
20 years later, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch still my favorite online multiplayer FPS of all time
Opinion Opinion | You can rip toilets from the wall and kill enemies with them. Enough said?
Valve dev explains why Half-Life 2's eyes were (and maybe still are) the best in the biz
News The G-Man is creepy for a reason
