half-life: alyx

November 21, 2019

Why is Half-Life: Alyx A VR Exclusive?

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We learned a bit more about Half-Life: Alyx today, For one thing, it’s confirmed to not be Half-Life 3, not that anyone expected it to be. It takes place between the first and second Half-Life games. The biggest news is the first full trailer for the game, which confirms its release date of March 2020 and its platforms, all of them being VR goggles of various brands (HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows MR, and the new Valve Index). If Valve just launched their own VR headset, is that the reason why Half-Life: Alyx is exclusively VR? According to Robin Walker at Valve, this project was always VR, but it started back in 2016 when the company hadn’t released a headset yet. And they used the Half-Life world initially because it was familiar. She spoke with Polygon and told them: “To some extent, VR was a way we could fool ourselves into believing we had a way to do this. By starting with VR and trying to think about Half-Life and

November 18, 2019

Half-Life Is Half-Back, But On Double The Screens

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It’s been one of the most requested sequels of all time, from a series tragically left hanging back in the early 2000s. And now that Shenmue 3 is finally here, we can get to that other one. Valve took the occasion to announce an in-development continuation of Half-Life…sort of. The Half-Life series is still one of gaming’s most popular, despite its current status of limbo. The 1998 original was praised by everyone, the 2004 sequel even more so. Next up for Valve was a series of mini follow-ups titled Half-Life Chapters 1 through 3. They got up to 2…then they invented Steam, became rich and fat, and said “Half-Life? What’s that?” For nearly 15 years, the entire series has been left on a cliffhanger, and getting answers out of Valve has been virtually impossible. CEO Gabe Newell has refused to comment about a Half-Life 3 and forbids reporters from bringing the subject up. Everyone figured the series was done with….until today. And it’s not Half-Life 3, just so we’re clear