Today, October 10th 2017, marks 10 years since the release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Today is also the day we're announcing something exciting that's coming to LambdaGeneration soon. Rather than go on about things in an article, we created a video instead to talk about, where we've been, thoughts…
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It’s been a long time… In more ways that one.
Could this be the Myst of the Source engine?
‘INFRA’ is a freshly released first-person puzzle adventure game. It was initially created as a Portal 2 modification, but became a standalone Source engine title after Steam Greenlight success in 2013.
Last month, Infra finally came out on Steam, and so far, it has received a fairly positive response from the community, including a nomination for IndieDB’s Indie of the Year Awards in December 2015. We take a quick look.
One of the original Half-Life developers, Doug Wood, has announced that he will be retiring from Valve after working for the company for almost 19 years.
If you’ve been following the Half-Life 2 modding community lately, chances are, you’ve probably heard of an upcoming game called Prospekt.
Valve are doing a ‘content showcase’ in Seattle as a ‘follow up’ to HTC’s Vive demonstration at CES 2016, running 6th – 9th January 2016.
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…
Earlier in the week, we gave an exclusive sneak peek at Black Mesa’s new ‘Crossfire Update‘, which rolled out officially on Steam today, just in time for the Steam Winter Sales.
In this article we give a more detailed comparison and go over what’s new.
Fans have always been curious about the scrapped, the cancelled, and the replaced. That’s why we have “communities within communities”, fan-followings that study and emulate the HL1 and HL2 “betas”, as some choose to call them. But it’s when we get wind of mysterious projects we’d previously never heard of, that we really get excited.
We decided to e-mail Marc Laidlaw himself, to find out what’s the deal behind all these supposed, canned Half-Life spin-offs. And not only is he great at telling stories, he’s also great at… telling us stuff. So he actually did tell us some stuff – regarding the recent info we dug up on Return To Ravenholm, and the controversial possibility of an Episode Four.
Experimental Source mods are starting to become relatively common. From the beautiful Dear Esther, to the excellent Radiator series, we’ve certainly seen our fair share of experimental modding. And here we have another one. Meet The Stanley Parable, just released a few days ago. What is it? An experimental, narrative-driven first-person game. “An exploration of choice, freedom, storytelling and reality, all examined through the lens of what it means to play a video game. You will make a choice that does not matter. You will follow a story that has no end. You will play a game you cannot win… it’s actually best if you don’t know anything about it before you play it.”
All in all, sounds pretty interesting. We won’t spoil anything of it (in fact, you shouldn’t even watch the trailer), so if you’ve got some spare time, you should check it out. You can find its ModDB page here.
The Combine OverWiki, even if it may have quite a few rough spots, may be the very best Half-Life wiki out there. It also focuses on Portal and is a part of the Valve Wiki Network. It’s been with Wikia since the OverWiki first came about, on the 12th of February 2006. However, recently, Wikia has been making some disappointing decisions and changes. Some fan wikis have been moving away from Wikia, and towards private hosts. For example, the Official Team Fortress Wiki and the recently announced Unofficial Portal Wiki are both privately owned and operated.
And now the OverWiki is joining them!
Feels like only yesterday we were talking about the first part!
The awesome modders from the Half-Life 2: Short Stories Team are known for “Human Error”, an excellent episodic mod that puts the player in the shoes (well, more like high-tech 2020’s augmented-by-aliens combat boots) of a Civil Protection officer. The first episode dropped in the beginning of the year, and the team also released their awesome “Human Error: Traitor” multiplayer component earlier this year, but since then what have they been up to?
The XBLA indie hit “Super Meat Boy” is coming to the PC, with a host of new exclusive characters, including Half-Life’s Headcrab!
Valve has been to almost every E3 event. The only ones they’ve missed are E3 2000, E3 2001, E3 2002 (although they were planning on revealing HL2 at E3 2002), and E3 2006.
Since 2007, they haven’t missed a single one.
So, in the midst of all of this VGA-related mayhem, some people have managed to… well, troll a certain number of people. As if that wasn’t enough, another, completely unrelated number of people is now convinced that the VGA 2011 Wheatley Character of the Year nomination short somehow contains Half-Life 3 ARG clues. The bad thing is these groups appear to have combined, and we now have a tremendous number of people who believe Valve is about to announce Half-Life 3.
Now, we’re not going to be touching on the “ARG”. As silly as it may seem, maybe it’ll develop… somehow, and we’ll actually see something concrete. We’ll just give the hard-working ARG folks the benefit of a doubt for now, rather than rain on their parade for no reason. No, now I’m going go to town on all those other rumors. Rumors propagated by video game journalists who hardly have time to do a bit of research before they are forced to push an article out prematurely.
