In the finished Half-Life 2, there's a section where Gordon and Alyx are fighting through City 17 trying to reach Barney, and come to a destroyed bridge. You end up dropping down to the canal before a ...

Before Half-Life changed gaming forever, its own developers weren’t sure they could pull it off but Gabe Newell had faith.

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever ...

“Stranger Things” will not return for its final season for a while longer, but you can certainly fill the Sadie Sink-sized hole in your screens with “O’Dessa.” And in this project, you ...

Half-Life is $2 on Steam at the time of writing. That's $2 in 2025 money - a far cry from the 1998 money we had when the game came out. It's difficult to even buy Half-Life at full price nowadays ...

One of those is a 'gravity manipulation tool' that definitely wouldn't have felt out of place next to Half-Life 2's gravity gun, and is a delightful fit with Animal Use Protocol's grainy ...

Lionsgate has released a new trailer for its forthcoming Ballerina movie, and it indicates that Keanu Reeves' John Wick will play a far bigger role in the story than we realized. Ballerina's first ...

Throw a pickaxe in Hollywood today, and you could easily hit a dozen video game adaptations in the works as TV series and movies. They’re all vying for the same things — critical acclaim ...

Half-Life 2 is one of the best loved FPS games in the genre’s history, even with its cliffhanger story still unresolved nearly two decades since its last episodic expansion launched ...

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