Single player games tend to trade the thrill of playing with or against other folk by giving players deeper, more interesting worlds to explore at their own pace with deeper narrative elements, with some exceptions. We've put together some of the finest single player games into a comprehensive list to help you with picking your next adventure.
It's never great having to report on the death of a gaming icon, but Robert Guillaume played a big role in the continued culture of PC gaming. With a key role in Half-Life 2 - a title just about any gamer knows of - knowing he'll never return whether we get Half-Life 3 or not is a major upset.
The search for Portal-connected Borealis, revenge for Eli Vance, the Combine as a Dyson Sphere, and the setup for Half-Life 3 are in the Half Life 2 Episode Three synopsis.
Even if your wish for Half-Life 3 was to ever come true, it wouldn't satisfy the itch for very long. That's the idea we're getting from series writer Marc Laidlaw.
In yet another string of events that's likely to have someone calling out Half-Life 3 confirmed, Valve have stirred the pot by updating the original Half-Life first released in 1998.
Gabe L. Newell closed the doors on his open Questions and Answers 'AMA' session on Reddit yesterday around an hour after it began. Not through spite or for dodging too many Half-Life 3 questions, but simple because you need to have some cut-off to stop yourself from feeling the need to answer thousands of questions from people would like nothing more than to be your friend.
If a source it to be believed, we might never see a worthwhile conclusion to the Half-Life franchise until someone at Valve comes up with the million-dollar idea.
Unlike a certain few other publishers, Valve seem completely open - and encouraging - to the idea of fans doing what they won't. Those fans are almost done recreating Half-Life in its entirety, and they're dishing out a quick sneak-peek.
Valve News Network has reported that there is hope for Half-Life fans in the form of an all-new VR game.Valve recently released a Steam VR app called Destinations. Someone looked through the games files and found, a project titled HL:VR with code pointing to the experimentation with Half-Life assets in VR.
This is the kind of story you can only read with sigh and a slow, disapproving shake of the head. Gamescom 2016 opens as of tomorrow, and already giant banners adorn the German convention center advertising upcoming titles like Dishonored 2 and Titanfall 2. Along with that, an unexpected banner in trademark orange advertising Half-Life: 3.
No Man’s Sky is out and on the hard drives of home computers, so obviously its files are already being picked apart in an effort to divine all of its secrets. If you’re hoping for any major revelations about the nature of the universe or secret modes, you’ll be disappointed, but there are some interesting tidbits and finds throughout.
No one really knows what Valve are doing in their Washington headquarters, I mean, it’s definitely not upgrading Counter Strike: Global Offensive to the Source 2 engine, so would could they possibly be doing? A lot of people seem to forget that trying to establish a brand new platform for games is also something they could be doing. Alan Yates, Hardware Engineer at Valve, has revealed on Reddit that one third of the company are involved in VR. “I was super fortunate to start at Valve right around the time Michael Abrash had begun the AR/VR research team,” Yates explains. “It was a much smaller team then than it is now, it has since grown to encompass about a third of the company, but the key individuals that solved most of the really hard technological problems and facilitated this generation of consumer headsets are still here working on the next generation.”
Half-Life 2 answered the question of what happened to Barney Calhoun, the star of Half Life: Blue Shift, but it's the fate of Half Life: Opposing Force's protagonist Adrian Shepard that frustrated many fans of the series. While The G-Man employed Gordon Freeman, Shepard was basically put in limbo forever, never to be heard from again. Indie developer Richard Seabrook is developing a Half-Life 2 expansion called Prospekt which finally reveals what happened to him.
Marc Laidlaw is a bit of a legend in the gaming community. After all, besides being an accomplished science-fiction and horror writer, he also wrote the stories for the much acclaimed Half-Life series. Nonetheless, all good things must come to an end and Marc Laidlaw announced today that after 18 years, he has left the Valve corporation.
Developer Thomas Kole has released an excellent mashup of ultraviolent action game Hotline Miami and Valve’s Half-Life 2, and it’s available to download for free on his website. It features eight levels and a thoroughly enjoyable take on [n]Half-Life 2[/n]’s iconic gravity gun, and you can check out the game in action in the trailer below.
Hey, remember late on in Half-life, where you got zapped to an alien planet and ended up in gladiatorial combat with a giant, quadruped testicle? Yes, that was weird, wasn't it? Well the free mod version of total conversion remake Black Mesa won't contain such a scene, development team Crowbar Collective has revealed in a Reddit AMA. In fact, it will omit the alien Xen levels of Valve's classic entirely.
Crowbar Collective, made of former Black Mesa Development Team members, has just brought their Half-Life remake - Black Mesa - to Steam Early Access. It's very close to the original with a few creative differences. It's a community "re-envisioning" of Valve's iconic Half-Life, which introduced us to Gordon Freeman. Now we get the classical journey infused with new life powered by Source. They're '85% done'.
A countdown link on the Black Mesa mod website probably signals a final release date for the Source Engine-powered remake of Valve's original sci-fi shooter Half-life.
The Half-Life 2: Update mod, a labour of love from passionate fans of Valve's seminal FPS, will go live on Steam tomorrow. Even better, not only is the mod completely free but Half-Life 2 developer Valve has also given it their stamp of approval, too.
The house that Gabe built, as it turns out, is none too pleased with the state of their service support. Assigned an 'F' rating from the Better Business Bureau, an American non-governmental, non-regulatory and non-profit organisation, it's clear in Valve's response that the 'F' doesn't stand for 'Fabulous'.