Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Spotlight
Digital FoundryHalf-Life Episode 2/Portal 360/PS3 Performance
Some vintage 2007 frame-rate analysis...
Chatting about Portal and whether Orange Box will return.
We pit EA's port against PC and 360.
What next in the parade of constant obstacles?
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Valve has fixed NPCs not blinking in Half-Life 2
Don't lash out.
Influential ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek joins Surgeon Simulator studio
To direct a "PC action co-op game".
Chet Faliszek has left Valve
Portal and Left 4 Dead writer runs out of Steam.
Former Valve employee is suing the company for $3.1m
Alleges developer exploited minors for free labour, discriminated against transgender staff.
After 10 years of waiting, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 seems further away than ever
Vortigone for good?
Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw leaves Valve
Now a free man.
Valve-approved Half-Life 2: Update headed to Steam
Combine it with the main game.
FeatureMinerva matter: The Half-Life 2 mod that opened the gates of Valve
Adam Foster's two-and-a-half-year job application for the world's most enigmatic game developer.
Gabe Newell named as next AIAS Hall of Famer
Oh they'll induct anyone have they no standards etc..
Valve's gaming goggles tested, says "credible" AR games 3 to 5 years away
They sure aren't pretty.
FeatureRetrospective: Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 & 2
Rise and shine.
Valve on Valve Time: "It's charming. It's kind of a compliment."
Plus, we ask, what's taking Half-Life 3 so long?
Newell: Valve wants its games "more baked" before revealing them
"We're acutely aware of how much we annoy our fans."
10,000 Valve fans stage Half-Life 3 protest
But far less than 50,000 signed up to do so.
Half-Life 3 fan campaign staging mass gameplay session
Up to 29,000 gamers to play Half-Life 2 this Saturday.
"A Call for Communication (Half-Life)" Steam Group passes 10,000 members
But will Valve listen?
Digital FoundryHalf-Life Episode 2/Portal 360/PS3 Performance
Some vintage 2007 frame-rate analysis...
Valve's Half-Life dev hampered by Steam?
Impulse maker Stardock draws parallels.
Why Chet Faliszek is Valve's Mr Awesome
"I walk around the hall with my iron fist."
Valve bundles 22 games for USD 99
Includes Left 4 Dead. Bargain!
Steam Cloud to launch this week
Centralise game data starting with L4D.
Chunky Orange Box PS3 patch released
Should remedy many of the problems.
Orange Box PC separates get date
Same week in US and Europe.
Episode Two's Hunter goes plush
Combine cuddles.
FeatureValve's Doug Lombardi
Chatting about Portal and whether Orange Box will return.
EA to split Orange Box components
So you can buy them separately.
The Orange Box
We pit EA's port against PC and 360.
HL2: EpTwo stats digested
Are we there yet?
Valve explains international Orange Box deactivations
Territory control.
Use your Portal gun in HL2
Win cake.
The Orange Box unlocked
Valve pushes the button.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
What next in the parade of constant obstacles?
Orange Box pre-load begins
Portal and Episode Two files.
Orange Box pre-orders get TF2 beta access
From next Monday.
Valve doesn't know how much Orange Box cost to develop
"We don't track that."
FeatureValve's Gabe Newell
On Orange Box, Steam, Wii controls, next-gen.
Valve narrows down release date
For EpTwo/TF2/Portal.
FeatureValve's Gabe Newell on, well, everything
Episodic, in-game ads, Steam, XBL, EA, you.
FeatureValve talks Episode Two
David Speyrer, Gautam Babbar and Doug Lombardi open up.
Valve targets October for Episode Two, TF2 and Portal
But, you know, don't place bets.
HL2 Episode 2 vehicle teaser
Images of the Whip MIT Grad.
HL2: Episode 2 in winter
Orange and black box details.
Half-Life 2: Ep Two slips again
Now for summer 2007.
Half-Life 2: Ep 2 vids
Three of them.
FeatureGC: Valve opens up in Leipzig
Doug Lombardi on Episode Two, TF2 and Portal.
Valve details Leipzig showing
Real-time demos, says Lombardi.
Episode 2/TF2/Portal at Leipzig
Valve heading to GC 2006.
Half-Life 2: Episode Two video
Lovely woody sort of trailer.
Valve reveals new Ep 2 details
360, PS3 and PC - and it'll ship with Team Fortress 2.
HL2: Episode 2 details revealed
Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert!
FeatureOpening the Valve
Part 2: On Warren Spector, Alyx, and the importance of playtesting.
FeatureOpening the Valve
Gabe Newell and co. on Hollywood, Episode One and future expansions.