Valve introduces us to Episode One

After bashing through the game's five stonking chapters, we sat down with Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve and creative genius behind the Half-Life series. His words will be yours to read from next Tuesday, as we go wild for Episode One with a week of coverage of the episodic masterstroke. Don't go anywhere else - we'll have everything you need to know about Half-Life 2: Episode One right here on Radar.

Above: Fighting alongside Alyx strengthens your - urk! - feelings for her. She's more than just a supporting character

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.