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Late Saturday night, I removed my Valve Index VR headset. I’d done it. I had finished Half-Life: Alyx. As I blinked,…

Half-Life: Alyx comes out today. It’s the first Half-Life game since 2007’s Half-Life 2: Episode Two—a conspicuous…

If you trace Black Mesa, the Half-Life fan remake to end all fan remakes, back to its origin as a mega-mod that rose…

The release of Half-Life: Alyx stands to be a landmark event for two reasons. First and most obviously, it’s a new Ha…

For a handful of weeks last year, Dota Underlords devoured my entire life. Then, abruptly, I stopped playing. At the…

Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem, an action role-playing game for PC in the style of Diablo that’s been making waves on Steam…

Pokémon Sword and Shield were solid and all, but there’s a new Pokémon sheriff in town. And by “in town,” I mean “on…

The first time I met Temtem’s monster-bequeathing hot dad science lad Professor Konstantinos, I immediately began…

Improbably, a new Half-Life game is coming out in just a couple of months. To celebrate, Valve hosted an AMA on…

I’m fairly certain that I haven’t played 8,400 games in my entire life, but that’s the number of new releases that…

Far-right groups that often employed Nazi-inspired language have long been able to create ugly little dens on Steam…

In the annals of holiday lore it said that, every year, after circling the globe on a carpet-sized copy of Death…

Halo: Reach, Bungie’s final entry in its second (of three, so far) series about armored space knights, is finally on…

We are gathered here today to bid farewell to the Steam Controller, the little gamepad that could in some cases, but…

There are more than 30,000 games on Steam. When Valve removes the odd offender for breaking the rules by, say, being…

Deep-pocketed companies like Valve and Oculus have been pushing virtual reality for years, but mainstream interest…

From the start, the lead developer of Crime Opera: The Butterfly Effect, Sean Bester, wanted his game to be…

Half-Life: Alyx, you might be dismayed to learn, is definitely not Half-Life 3. But it is a new “full-length” Half-Li…

If you’re the sort of person who sees packs of animals majestically gallivanting about in forests or on the National…

There are plenty of reasons to distrust any given individual Steam review. It might be obsessively hyper-focused on…