It’s been a long time… In more ways that one.

A lot of things can change during the development of a game. Half-Life is rich with lore, and because of this, things have constantly changed during the series development.

Nihilanth is shrouded in mystery. Our first and only encounter with him doesn’t reveal much. We know very little about him – but he is key to the Half-Life story.

From a technical standpoint, Aperture Science and the Combine go together like peas in a prisoner pod. There are some startling similarities between their weapons and equipment that may point to an unseen element of the story.

Phillip Marlowe is the founder of the Half-Life singleplayer modding website RunThinkShootLive.com, formerly known as PlanetPhillip.com. Phillip has been running his site for 13 years, and within that time he has become a well-known individual in the Half-Life modding community.

Phillip got in touch with us recently to voice his opinion regarding Valve’s customer care in relation to the lack of communication about the future state of the Half-Life series, and we thought we’d share it with you. You can discuss your own thoughts on this in the comments after the article. All views expressed in this article are his own.

The recent news of Half-Life series writer Marc Laidlaw retiring from Valve has sent shockwaves through the community.

Latest Update: 4th Jan 2016, 15:30pm GMT

New potential clues have emerged relating to the arctic map from the comic, which we previously covered. Scroll down to point 8 for an update on this.

So there’s a Steam ARG going on, right now.

We don’t usually hop on the Half-Life 3 conspiracy bandwagon, but this is getting a little interesting to say the least…

The other day there was buzz about certain listings being added to SteamDB. Among many was Half-Life 3. Supposedly.

This is an opinion piece by longtime Half-Life obsessive Adam ‘Lilgreenman‘ Bumas. All views expressed here are his own.

Creating art isn’t easy. It takes vision, dedication, knowledge, cooperation, and – as any visitor to this site will know – time.

It happened again. Another bit of what we want to believe is Half-Life 3 has appeared in the wild. But how big of a deal is this?