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Mar 27, 2008

The world's best counterfeit games

PC Feature | Halflife

Not happy with what the devs are doing with your favourite games? Then let the gamers take over production. ...
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Aug 28, 2008

Leipzig: The real-life Half-Life 2

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

When we went to the Leipzig GC this year, we found ourselves in strangely familiar surroundings. Strangely, disturbingly familiar surroundings. Gravity guns at the ready... ...
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Aug 18, 2008

Lesbian Trysts

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

For some, it may be a shock to learn that there are actually female gamers out there. More shocking yet may be the realization that some female gamers are gay. If you haven’t gone into apoplectic seizures yet, you may be interested to know that some gay female gamers enjoy illustrations of their favorite characters in compromising situations. Enter lesbiangamers.com with their Lesbian Trysts series, wherein two iconic game babes get ...

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Aug 15, 2008

Seinfeld recreated in Garry's Mod

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

We’re big fans of dicking around, so when someone suggested that we attempt to reproduce a classic sitcom in Half-Life 2’s Garry’s Mod, we cited the “why the hell not” clause of our operating procedures and immediately began violating ragdolls. While our interpretation of the greatest nihilist sitcom ever may not win us any awards at machinima festivals, it can at least inspire some ironic ...

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Aug 7, 2008

Five games you love that should go MMO

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

Forget the tedious grinding and throw out the goblins. These would be the coolest MMOs ever made. ...
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Jan 18, 2008

Gordon Freeman: Strongest personality in gaming

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

18th Jan, 2008 [Warning: Like our Portal article from December, this piece features some pretty heady discourse, and also benefits from a visit from Mr. Narrative Theory. If that stuff makes you run screaming, then feel free to run screaming. Also, if you haven't completed Half-Life 2, leave now. This contains some inhuman spoilers.] Half-Life 2 is widely and rightly regarded as a modern classic. In terms of both gameplay and artistry there have been few, if any, games in the FPS genre which ...
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Nov 27, 2007

A ten-step guide to videogame morphine

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

27 Nov, 2007 For a time of peace on earth, theres going to be a lot of stress and killing around this Christmas. Just think about this winters biggest games. Whether its COD4s visceral gunfire tearing apart wall and limb alike, the bloody back-stabbing business of the always-hounded Altair, or Kane and Lynch just being plain old sociopathic, the jovial festival of light and wonder really is looking like a quite brutal one this year. We need a way to combat this, and preferably one which ...
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Jul 26, 2007

Flash Gordon

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

Having written sci-fi and horror novels such as Dad's Nuke, The Orchid Eater and The 37th Mandala, Marc Laidlaw joined Valve in 1997 during the development of the original Half-Life. He's a charming guy, and given the opportunity to speak on his specialist subject, he does so perceptively and at great ...
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Jul 27, 2006

The ten greatest years in videogame history

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

Three weeks ago, our sibling site NextGen posted the article, "The Ten Greatest Years in Gaming." It was full of cool industry info, but the first thing we asked was, "So, the PlayStation was first designed as an add-on for the SNES. We get the irony, but what were we actually playing in 1993 that made it so great?" We checked it out. We made a huge list of the best games of the past 34 years, taped it to the wall, and fought for days about stuff like whether one Zelda is worth more than two ...
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Apr 24, 2006

Is Steam power the future?

PC Feature | Half-Life 2

Wednesday 19 April 2006 The world of digital distribution is making 'going down the shops' as old-hat as, well, an old hat. And that's a leather one with a feather in it. The most convincing example of online shoppery is Steam, a powerful system from the creators of the mighty Half-Life games. Steam is to games what iTunes is to music. Valve's creation may work on a smaller scale than Apple's huge store, but it solves more problems. While music and video stores simply upload files and take ...
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