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20 Years Later, One Notoriously Troubled Game Still Feels Revolutionary

Today, 'Half-Life 2' is remembered as one of the best shooters ever, but in the chaotic lead-up to its launch, it was easy to imagine the game was doomed.

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Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage

Also: "hoppy blobs." Here's our best glimpse at the cancelled Episode 3 yet.

PC Gamer

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

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Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'

Newell wants Valve to "capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously."

PC Gamer

The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

PC Gamer

Steam now confirms you're buying a license, not a game — here’s why that sucks

Recently passed U.S. law has finally forced Valve's hand on its approach to digital ownership rights on Steam.

Tom’s Guide

'There's an alternate universe where Half-Life disappeared after release': Valve's first marketing strategist Monica Harrington says she helped navigate its way out of early disaster

Publisher woes almost doomed Valve from the start.

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Is Half-Life 3 actually going to happen?! New rumors suggest it finally could

A leaked actor’s profile page detailed a Valve title named ‘Project White Sands’ and some believe it could be the mythical Half-Life 3.

Tom’s Guide

Make memeified versions of Hideo Kojima and Gabe Newell fight in this bonkers Steam Next Fest roguelike

Meme Mayhem is an auto-battling roguelike with some familiar faces

GamesRadar

The PC Gaming Show turns 10: Looking back at the biggest moments from each show

Head back in time to the year 2015 as we celebrate the history of the PC Gaming Show.

PC Gamer

"You mad bro?": Lawsuit emails reveal Valve's internal response to Epic CEO's "you assholes" rant about Steam revenue cuts

The newly uncovered interactions date back to 2018

GamesRadar

Tim Sweeney emailed Gabe Newell calling Valve 'you assholes' over Steam policies, to which Valve's COO replied internally 'you mad bro?'

Newell remained magisterially above the fray.

PC Gamer

Elon Musk's Neuralink has stuck a device in someone's brain and he's already talking up its theoretical uses: 'Imagine if Stephen Hawking could communicate faster than a speed typist'

Transhumanism can wait. For now, Neuralink's first human patient is "recovering well".

PC Gamer

Absurdly rare Team Fortress 2 hat called 'The Crone's Dome' sells for a record-setting $18,000 worth of keys because 'it's one of a kind and will not ever be unboxed again'

The Crone's Dome is a one-of-a-kind hat, and one player was willing to pay through the nose for it.

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Valve lures thousands of Dota cheaters into bans with fake Christmas presents as it declares 'this year is gonna be a bloodbath'

Call it the smurfs' Christmas special.

PC Gamer

Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

Newell had requested a remote deposition in the Wolfire v. Valve case because of concerns about contracting Covid-19.

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Left 4 Dead writer says he ended up leading the project by accident: "No one ever told me I'm running it!"

Chet Faliszek never signed up to head up production on the original Left 4 Dead

PC Gamer

Left 4 Dead's first internal playtest was so disastrous, Gabe Newell asked its lead: 'Why don't I just play Counter-Strike instead?' then 'made me watch him play it'

The game was originally built around four vs. four PvP, but it was "a mess."

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Gabe Newell says games don't need to be realistic: "I have never thought to myself that realism is fun"

"In the real world, I have to write up lists of stuff I have to go to the grocery store to buy"

GamesRadar

Echoing that fake Miyamoto quote, Gabe Newell says: "Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever"

Valve delayed Half-Life by a whole year, and it stands by that decision all these years later

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell on making Half-Life's crowbar fun: 'We were just running around like idiots smacking the wall'

"It really goes back to that theory of fun."

PC Gamer

Gabe Newell on why game delays are okay: 'Late is just for a little while. Suck is forever.'

Half-Life was delayed a full year past its original release date, and Valve has no regrets.

PC Gamer

Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made

The rumours, rhetoric, and running out of hope.

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Overwatch 2 is coming to Steam with more Blizzard games to follow

Blizzard is putting Overwatch 2 on Steam and promises more of its popular PC games will follow in the near future

PC Gamer

Left 4 Dead creator says they got it right in the end because 'Gabe dragged it out of me'

"[The game] was college rock bands and getting too drunk so that you’d puke off the side, and it's the greatest time anyone ever had. And I was scared to say that."

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