Tag: half-life
Half-Life Alyx playable on Steam Deck, without VR, thanks to mod
If you’ve always wanted to play Half-Life Alyx, but lacked either a VR set up or a PC powerful enough to do so, well, your day has come, as a new mod for the superlative Valve FPS game allows Alyx to be played without VR and via the handheld Steam Deck. It’s still not Half-Life 3, but for those of us who have always wanted to continue the journey of Gordon Freeman and co. without buying an expensive virtual reality rig, this is ideal.
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Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it’s a delight
If you need more Half-Life 2 VR, you’re in luck. Following the incredible success of Valve’s own Half-Life: Alyx and the fantastic community-made Half-Life 2 VR mod, the creators behind the latter are back with more virtual reality adventures for the classic FPS game, with support for all SteamVR headsets including the Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it looks spectacular.
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Well-regarded Half-Life 2 VR mod adds support for Episode One, Episode Two coming soon, too
Half-Life 2: Episode One VR fan mod is out today
Back in January, the makers behind the excellent Half-Life 2 VR mod announced they were moving on to making a virtual reality goggle version of Half-Life 2: Episode One – and we now know it will be arriving on Steam later today. What’s more, we also have a release date for their VR mod of Episode Two. That will come next month on April 6th, according to its Steam page.
Modder runs Half-Life 2 natively on a Raspberry Pi 4 and Apple M2 Silicon
Ageing FPS Half-Life gets free overhaul, but not from Valve
A revolutionary product of its time, the first Half-Life game from Valve doesn’t need a touch-up, but what if it got one that was incredibly in keeping with the FPS game’s original release on Steam, and what if it was coming out very soon? Well, lucky for you I can answer both those questions, as Half-Life does have an overhaul mod coming to Steam for free and, would you look at that, it’s coming very soon too.
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Marc Laidlaw on Publishing Half-Life 3 Plot as Fan-Fiction: ‘I Was Deranged’
“The narrative had to be baked into the corridors”: Marc Laidlaw on writing Half-Life
“I was deranged,” says Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw of his decision to publish the plot of Episode 3 as fanfiction. “I was living on an island, totally cut off from my friends and creative community of the last couple decades, I was completely out of touch and had nobody to talk me out of it. It just seemed like a fun thing to do… until I did it.”
Laidlaw first discovered that community in the mid 90s, in the office of Valve, where Gabe Newell and team were already hard at work on Half-Life. “I’d seen bits and pieces of the levels they were working on, but as soon as I heard the name, I just got this amazing buzz,” Laidlaw says. “I could see the whole world they were aiming at somehow, and I felt it was a collective vision. This is one reason it’s so weird to me when people try to attribute authorship to me that I’ve never felt. It was all there when I got there, in embryo.”