Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
Speedruns are often reliant on the most random, funnily obscure quirks in any given game. You don't need to look further than ...
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The History of the Half-Life Game Series From 1998 to 2020
This feature article looks back on the history of the Half-Life game series from the founding of Valve up to the 2020.
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Forget GTA, The Original Gaming Event Series Is Half-Life
The last five years have been an amazing time to become a Half-Life fan. I didn't own a gaming PC until 2019 but, almost immediately after getting one, the long-dormant FPS series ...
How Half-Life 2's minimum specs led to the creation of the Steam Hardware survey
The Steam survey, which allows users of the platform to reveal their hardware and software specs to Valve so the data can be ...
Valve zoomed in Half-Life 2's FOV from the gold standard 90 so you could see all those pretty Source engine faces better
"In Half-Life 1, we used a 90-degree field of view, or FOV, which was fairly standard for first-person shooters at the time.