If you weren’t playing games when Half-Life came out, it’s hard to drive home just how shocking a departure it was from what had come before. Though some familiar mechanics served as a base to bui
As expected, Valve just dropped some details about Half-Life: Alyx, the flagship VR game it teased earlier this week.
After what feels like years of rumors, it’s official: Valve is making a virtual reality Half-Life game. Official word of the new title comes via Valve’s (brand new, but verified) Twitter a
The only thing that's crazier than the fact that Half-Life was released exactly 20 years ago is that I wrote up its 10th anniversary on this very website... well, 10 years ago. We've both aged well, I
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/garrymod.jpg" />This is pretty great. You know Garry's Mod, right? It's basically a sandbox “game” built on the Source engine. It's o
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/lucasmolyneux.jpg" />This is Lucas Molyneux, famed game developer Peter Molyneux's son. In this exciting video we see Molyneux The Younge
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/mvsg.JPG" />Two game characters enter, one game character leaves. In the ultimate face off, gamers get to vote for their favorite gaming
<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/il_fullxfull.69655865.jpg" alt="magnets" />I like how the artist who makes these Half-Life magnets gets from start to finish. First, imagine
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/half_life_movie.jpg" />It's amazing what a little talent, a little gear and a lot of imagination can accomplish. <a href="http://www.purc
Well well, a happy ending! Or possibly only the grisly beginning, depending on what happens when they fire that thing up again. The crowbar, sent from Reddit and Destructoid, has been given directly t
I hope you’ll all join me in celebrating 10 years of Half-Life! One of the most beloved games in the world has been around for a decade, and what better way to remember it than to fire it up and
So if a Panasonic VIERA plasma’s screen has a half-life of 42-years, that states that the screen will loss all it’s brightness in 84-years. Or 2093. Or when George Bush VI takes office. Or
In other news, the first piece of concept art from Half-Life 2: Episode Three is currently floating around The Internet. It shows one of the advisors that are currently running wild all over the plane
A while ago I posted about how Novint, an innovative and ambitious peripheral company took their freaky-deaky Falcon controller straight to EA instead of standing around like some kind of techno-wallf
Come back with me to a simpler time. It was twenty years ago, I was about 12, and the coolest stuff I owned was a huge set of G.I. Joe figures and, as I recall, an NES. I was late to the video game pa
That’s one big hard drive! Want a 4TB hard drive? Got four years to wait? Good, because that’s how long, according to Hitachi, it’ll take for us to see such drives, roughly keeping u
Nothing beats free stuff. Whether it’s a free ice cream cone or a free iPod, both are just so, so sweet. Those of you who still shell out $1000 a year to upgrade your PC for games will be happy