After a short break due to a wild summer of video games so far, we’re back with our next iteration of our ongoing “Making a Video Game Hero” series. Thus far, we’ve tackled the Action-Adventure, Platformer, and Sports genres. Today, we dip our toes into the shooter side of things. Now, usually these experiments have
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Well fellas, you guys almost had it. The perpetual meme of Half-Life 3 confirmed was almost made into reality. Valve has revealed that a big list of games had been canned by the studio between the release of Episode 2 and their latest VR title. That list includes both Half-Life 3 and an open world
Shawn Shaputis broke into Valve last month and stole over $40,000 worth of games and equipment. Maybe he was looking for some kind of Half-Life 3 prototype. Or perhaps he caught wind of a Half-Life 2 update that allows NPC’s to blink and had to see it for himself (while stealing a lot of stuff).
It might not be a large update, but for the NPC’s in Half-Life 2 who have wandered around the game unable to blink, this is a huge win for them. You might not have noticed it while actually playing, but for the past 15 years, those NPC’s in Valve’s Half-Life 2 have been incapable of blinking. Yesterday,
Gordon slides in and out of the barn’s patio cover wielding a crossbow that shoots red hot rebar at Combine soldiers. Effortlessly switching between the crossbow, submachine gun, and shotgun, Gordon moves into the house opposite the barn and absorbs an inhuman amount of bullets into his HEV suit. Not even the Combine hunter with