March 16, 2012

The Half Life Barnacle Lamp is a thing. A horrifying, horrifying thing.

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August 25, 2011

Escape from City 17 came out a couple of years ago, and now there's a Part 2. See also: Beyond Black Mesa and Singularity Collapse, more fan-made movies set in the HL2 universe.

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August 12, 2011

Two Canadian gamers decided to pay the Valve offices, protesting for the release of Half Life 3. Bungie's Jason Sussman decided to snap a shot of a visit and lunch delivery from someone unexpected.

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July 13, 2011

HALF-LIFE - Singularity Collapse is another fan-made, live-action short film set in the world of Half Life 2 and City 17. I liked it better than the last one, which was from a different team.

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June 20, 2011

"Valve engineers and artists regularly contribute to industry and academic conferences, covering topics from the high level goals of our cabal development process to the inner workings of cutting-edge rendering algorithms.": Valve publications (all pdf, but that link is html) contains articles and slides from presentation pertaining to Valve games from the original Half-Life up to Left 4 Dead 2. [more inside]

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May 30, 2011

The Half Life 1 Trailer that never was. Nicely done, but I do feel slightly disoriented after watching it.

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May 7, 2011

Freeman's Mind Episode 32 has been released. On the off chance that you haven't been following this legitimately hilarious journey through Half Life 1 inside the head of the no-longer-silent Gordon Freeman, you really should start now. It's worth it.

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February 21, 2011

The story of Axel Gembe, who broke into Valve's servers and stole the source for Half-Life 2 in spite of his handicap: he's not that bright. [more inside]

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January 24, 2011

Beyond Black Mesa the twelve-minute live-action fan-made film based on the Half-Life universe has been released, and you know what? It's pretty great.

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