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Half-Life 2's 2003 beta reveals the mystery behind a City 17 river that once led players to the foot of the Citadel
By Rich Stanton published
News Valve once had us spending a lot more time exploring the waterways of City 17.

Arkane was 'devastated' by its cancelled Half-Life 2 Ravenholm game, but the masterclass it got from late visionary artist Viktor Antonov 'was pivotal to what would become Arkane later'
By Harvey Randall published
News He "trained us in all of their practices".

Viktor Antonov, the visionary artist who defined Half-Life 2 and Dishonored, has died
By Ted Litchfield published
News Antonov also consulted on Doom 2016 and Fallout 4.

Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation
By Rick Lane published
News But before you get too excited, it could just be gift cards.

If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago
By Christopher Livingston published
News The Burton Equation is full of fedoras, Tommy guns, and, oh yeah, time travel.

G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase
By Harvey Randall published
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: 'I hate you'
By Rich Stanton published
News Ken Birdwell was all about "getting the lighting right."

Galactically petty Half-Life 2 modders ban 'anticitizens' who criticised their mod by targeting their Steam IDs, leave the proof visible in code: 'Script kiddies vibes from this lmao'
By Rich Stanton published
"Right now it is the number 2 most popular mod on the entire site, and it's literally all just people shit talking them."
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