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Review: Wot I Think: Black Mesa
Spit and shine, Mr. Freeman
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A Half-Life bug introduced by Windows 2000 just got fixed at last
That tentacle is going to be happy
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What's better: Half-Life's Snarks or Planescape: Torment's Litany Of Curses?
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All of Half-Life's textures were created by a single person, new making-of documentary explains
Valve's anniversary doc reunites the original team
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A Half-Life bug introduced by Windows 2000 just got fixed at last
That tentacle is going to be happy
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All of Half-Life's textures were created by a single person, new making-of documentary explains
Valve's anniversary doc reunites the original team
![Ivan the Space Biker and Proto-Barney in Half-Life's 25th anniversary update.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/ivan_and_bbbbarney.jpeg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Half-Life is Steam Deck verified with new multiplayer maps for its 25th anniversary
Nostalgia and novelty
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What's better: A silent protagonist, or combat style ratings?
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Why the mysterious love affair between video games and giant elevators may begin with Akira
Where did they come from? What are they for?
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Half-Life's raytracing mod is great because it makes the game look old in a new way
Turn on all the mucky filters and revel in the fancy mess
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"The narrative had to be baked into the corridors": Marc Laidlaw on writing Half-Life
Also yeah, he does regret posting that Episode 3 story
![An underground food court in Black Mesa](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/Blueshiftheader.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Barney returns tomorrow in Chapter 4 of Black Mesa's Blue Shift mod
A mod for the expansion to a remake of a classic
![Gazing up at the sunset over a castle in the Half-Life map skybox, as seen by the Twitter box Skybox Satellite.](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/skybox-satellite-twitter-bot.png?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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This Twitter bot tours Half-Life skyboxes to brighten up your timeline
Skybox Satellite gazes up at the Half-Life heavens
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A full hour of Arkane’s scrapped Half-Life game Ravenholm has emerged
Noclip shares new footage captured during their 2020 Arkane documentary
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Half-Life's tram intro using the TikTok voice is distressing
But this great/horrible joke mod... kinda works?
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A new mod adding raytracing to Half-Life looks nice, not just shiny
Quite nice, as raytracing mods go!
![Just look at these gorgeous Half-Life CD ROMs](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/half-life-generation-cds.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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A former Half-Life designer is showing off prototypes and rejected bloodbaths
Would it have been a classic if it were called "Trip Hammer"?
![Return to a top-down Black Mesa in the unofficial Half-Life Loop](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/hlloopt.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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Black Mesa opens a playable museum of Xen's history
With versions of maps from across years of development
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Black Mesa's Definitive Edition update makes it just about finished
Performance improvements and extra prettiness
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AGDQ 2021 lineup includes Hades and Sekiro
Honourable mention for the Celeste speedun, because those runs are always amazing
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Five cool things we learned from Valve's Half-Life: Alyx - Final Hours documentary
From wheely desks to invisible headcrabs
![The 9 worst scientists in PC games](https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/worst-scientists-list-mordin-mass-effect-2-4.jpg?width=320&height=180&fit=crop&quality=80&format=jpg&auto=webp)
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