Introduction. 20 years ago this month, in 1998, a startup named Valve released Half-Life, and it would change the face of gaming. The game, inspired by Doom, another FPS that turned the hobby on its head, would make Valve a power player in the industry. What made Half-Life so good?Read More →

As ambiguous as the G-Man. The canon of the Half-Life and Portal series has never been officially defined by Valve. He remarked that they “do not get involved in issues of canonicity” and that “canon itself is non-canon”, letting the games stand on their own. … Is Portal a modRead More →