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Half-Life 2: Episode Three storyline speculation (Half-Life 2)

16/06/2009

Where next for Gordon Freeman? We hazard a few educated guesses. ...

Half-Life 2: Episode Three storyline speculation (Half-Life 2: Episode One)

16/06/2009

Where next for Gordon Freeman? We hazard a few educated guesses. ...

Half-Life 2: Episode One (Half-Life 2: Episode One)

31/05/2006

The cliffhanger ending of Half-Life 2 felt like the dark middle arc of a trilogy, and left us with more questions than answers. The Half-Life 2: Episode One (formerly Aftermath) expansion promises to answer some of those questions ... but will raise even more. Episode One centers entirely on the now-doomed City 17. Thanks to Gordon Freeman, the annihilation of those oppressive rulers, the Citadel, has now put everyone still inside the city in peril. The action focuses around the characters you ...

Hands-on with Half-Life 2's next chapter (Half-Life 2: Episode One)

30/05/2006

Valve, the creator of Half-Life, recently opened the doors to its plush headquarters, where we were given an exclusive session with one of the most anticipated games of the year, Half-Life 2: Episode One. We'll have a review for you soon; the game goes live next week on Steam (www.steampowered.com). But, until then, we can tell you what we saw for ourselves. Episode One is the first in a trilogy of new adventures for Gordon Freeman, Half-Life's bespectacled hero. Throughout the action, you'll ...

Half-Life 2 Aftermath (Half-Life 2: Episode One)

22/02/2006

Doctor Breen told you not to do it, but you didn't listen. You had to trigger a cataclysm, had to take down the Citadel and the Combine. You didn't think about the consequences - the world faded to grey, the G-Man left the stage, the credits rolled. The lights went up and you stared at the screen. But Valve will keep working on Half-Life 2. In the next six months they're going to extend it and drive their technology to new heights. This fun will not be available in the shops. Instead, Valve ...

Half-Life 2: Episode Three storyline speculation (Half-Life 2: Episode Three)

16/06/2009

Where next for Gordon Freeman? We hazard a few educated guesses. ...

The first concept art from Half-Life 2: Episode Three (Half-Life 2: Episode Three)

10/07/2008

The web is abuzz over what some believed to be the first concept art of Half-Life 2: Episode Three from an exhibit of video game art called Into the Pixel. And some are so wrong. The first concept art from Valve’s episodic blockbuster actually appeared in the pages of PC Gamer magazine in our November 2007 issue!

That was our cover story and review of The Orange Box, and our exclusive render ...

Half-Life 2: Episode Three storyline speculation (Half-Life 2: Episode Two)

16/06/2009

Where next for Gordon Freeman? We hazard a few educated guesses. ...

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - hands-on (Half-Life 2: Episode Two)

18/05/2007

Weve all been horribly misled about Episode Two. We ended Episode One steaming out of City 17 on a train as the Citadel exploded, but it crashed and we heard Alyx cry out. The next thing we saw was her dangling from a smashed bridge in the Episode Two trailer, then her limp body being carried by a Vortigaunt. And OK, the savvy among us probably realized she wasnt dead, but it was pretty clear shed been badly hurt in the crash and would be out of action for most of the episode. Utterly untrue. ...

Phoenix rises (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

27/03/2007

We sat down for a chat with Justin Manning, Associate Producer for The Order of the Phoenix from EAs UK studio to find out all the latest gossip surrounding the darkest Harry Potter novel so ...

Haze: Rebel action revealed (Haze)

16/08/2007

Aug 16, 2007 Free Radical is concerned about Haze. With the developer's much-quoted leanings toward more mature gaming, challenging censorship boundaries and raging against monkeys, it's worried that we might be forgetting to ask some important questions. What about leading man Shane Carpenter's defection halfway through the game? And what impact does his switch of sides, from super-tech Mantel Corp. army to rebel force The Promise Hand, have on the gameplay? We've been shipped up to Free ...

Haze - new screens and trailer (Haze)

23/05/2007

The honeycombed body armor of the biologically enhanced guns for hire in Haze didn't exactly excite us at first glance. After all, their bee-like design looks better suited for pumping up cereal with some nutritionally balanced breakfast fun than putting a sting on sinister international conspiracies. But despite the somewhat silly looking character design, Haze sports what promises to be a chilling and mature story. The game throws you in the shoes of Shane Carpenter, a soldier of fortune ...

Haze (Haze)

23/02/2007

Its difficult not to have a soft spot for likeable cartoon shooter Timesplitters, even if it did look a little bit, well, French. But next-gen debut Haze is set to take a more serious outlook. Gone are the pop culture stereotypes, in are moral questions about life, death and the life of a soldier. No, ...

Haze updated impressions (Haze)

19/05/2006

After confirming the existence of Haze, devloper Free Radical's next-gen and PC shooter, Ubisoft was keen to show us just how the game will turn out. So we've been bombarded with the first in-game action, and now we're going to tell you all about it. Haze is set in a future world where wars are fought by corporate armies and biotechnology has reached an incredibly advanced level. As the leader in the field of both biotech and mercenary combat, the Mantel corporation brings the two fields ...

Haze first look (Haze)

18/05/2006

Haze is a new, next-generation first person shooter from Free Radical, who previously worked on the Timesplitters series. Those games were on the lighthearted side, but this isn't - it's a gritty, balls-out shooter with a furturistic world that's serious as a heart attack. In the brief non-playable demo we were able to take in, the game began with a helicopter ride over a South American jungle. The detail inside the chopper was intense - soldiers lolled about, the commander shouted and we ...

Haze (Haze)

16/05/2006

Tuesday 16 May 2006 After confirming the existence of Haze, Free Radical's next-gen and PC shooter, Ubisoft was keen to show us just how the game will turn out. So we've been bombarded with the first in-game action, and now we're going to tell you all about it. As we've already reported, Haze is set in a future world where wars are fought by corporate armies and biotechnology has reached an incredibly advanced level. As the leader in the field of both biotech and mercenary combat, the Mantel ...

Heist (HEI$T)

14/06/2007

As we watched the 30% complete version of Heist, Maxx Kaufman, of developers InExile, wanted us to "imagine it looking awesome all the time." You can see why. At the moment, this safe-cracking, '60s-set, free-roamer looks a bit basic. The banks are blank, the robbers struggle with scenery and the chatter is stilted. But if the team can polish the graphics as well as they generate ideas, this will be one to ...

Heist - first look (HEI$T)

19/04/2007

As a concept Heist is solid gold - lead a crew of badasses as you plan and pull off a series of bank robberies in 1969 San Francisco. Just the idea evokes countless Hollywood images of cool guns, cool sunglasses, cool muscle cars, cool afros and fat bundles of cool, crisp dollar bills. And that's definitely a good thing, because it's exactly the vibe that Heist is shooting for. Certainly all those elements were represented in the sections of the game we were shown by developer inXile ...

HEI$T (HEI$T)

28/03/2007

If you were a pensioner, and we said "1960s San Francisco" to you, you'd probably roll your eyes, or else go all misty-eyed and complain that you just can't get decent LSD anymore. It depends what kind of pensioner you are, really. As it happens, this is the exact setting for Hei$t, the Hollywood-inspired robbery sim from developer inXile - though the closest you'll get to any peace-and-love daisy-age nonsense here is driving your getaway car through a crowd full of hippies. It's been a while ...

E3 07: Hellgate: London - preview (Hellgate London)

11/07/2007

Everybody wants Diablo III... but they're not going to get it. Fortunately, Hellgate: London continues to shape up to be an appealing alternative. Though the game plunks you down into London's grim future, the mixture of knight-like Templars and other updated fantasy warriors gives the game an instantly understandable hack and slash style. That, and London's sewers don't look a million miles away from ...