A month or so back, I got to spend an hour with the Oculus Rift VR headset—most of which I spent swooning over Portal 2
I've never read the book Generation Xbox, about video games invading Hollywood. Our columnist Superannuation (who's…
The developers of Sven Co-op, a nearly fifteen-years-old but still regularly updated mod that lets you play Valve's…

Over the weekend, the SourceRuns Team, comprised of fourteen players, got together and finished Half-Life 2, from…
Patricia had this image tucked away inside a story from earlier today, but I thought it was too magnificent not to…
Bossa Studios never intended for Surgeon Simulator 2013 to become a part of a Half-Life 3 conspiracy theory—the ARG…
Remember that suspicious Korean puzzle in Surgeon Simulator 2013—which people assumed teased a Valve product? The developers say it's an ARG, but it's unrelated to Valve or Half-Life. Read more
From Half-Life to DotA 2, Valve's games almost always have really strong voice acting. And that is, of course,…
Nobody needs an excuse to talk about Half-Life 3. Normally, that might be fine—it's just hype!—but damn if the…

Normally, when a game is updated and things break, it's cause for concern. When a Valve game updates and things get…
In an interview published in the 2012 book Gamers at Work: Stories Behind the Games People Play, gaming luminary Warr…
Collectible company Gaming Heads, the same folks behind those awesome Team Fortress 2 statues, have posted a…

Much has been inferred or made of a continuity overlap between Portal and Half-Life. Here, Chell and Gordon Freeman…
Last December, reader Michelle decided to take a swing at building her own replica gravity gun from Half-Life 2.…
You may have played the Half-Life 2 mod Minerva when it was released a few years ago, but now it's back, and…
Last year, we saw a prototype of a Half-Life 2 gravity gun made by NECA, a toy company previously behind the replica Portal guns.
Fede Alvarez, the 35 year-old Uruguayan (and director of Panic Attack) who has been given the keys to the Evil Dead…
Perhaps hoping to follow in the footsteps of the now-finished (and completely excellent) webcomic Concerned, The…
I saw these pop up on Twitter a few weeks back, but you know what? I've been on vacation for a few weeks. So here…
A video game's opening stage or starter zone has an extremely important role: it sets the tone for the rest of the…