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The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever
The terms of the deal, Harrington said, was that Valve would fund all but $1 million of the development costs of Half-Life's ...
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Half-Life Publisher Sierra Almost Abandoned The Game Before Launch
Half-Life ’s original publisher, Sierra, almost abandoned the highly influential FPS, nearly pulling its marketing funds ...
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OG Half-Life publisher Sierra planned to “abandon” the game before Valve threatened them
The original Half-Life was almost abandoned by publisher Sierra On-Line before Valve threatened to reveal their unsavoury ...
Valve CMO threatened the company would walk away from games if it didn't own the rights to Half-Life—'It wasn't an idle threat—we weren't going to take on all of the r…
Game Developer's Conference, and one of this year's most interesting talks was delivered by Monica Harrington, a founding ...
Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life's publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: "Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned"
Life's original publisher almost abandoned the game and pulled marketing funds, nearly leaving the hugely influential shooter ...
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‘Half-Life: Alyx’ is Now Five Years Old. What’s Next for Valve in VR?
Alyx reshaped expectations for VR gaming, Valve remains a quiet yet critical force in the industry. Despite little fanfare, ...
Animal Use Protocol shows off its Half-Life style gravity tool, but I'm way more interested in its sassy rat companion
Shown off during the Future Games Show, Animal Use Protocol casts you as Penn, a hyper-intelligent chimpanzee attempting to ...
Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
To put the whole 8 MB thing in context, one GPU from the HL2 period was the ATI (now AMD) Radeon 9700 which launched in 2002 and had 128 MB of VRAM. And as the YouTuber points out, a lot of cards back ...
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New GeForce Game Ready Driver adds DLSS 4 to these 61 games
GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.83 is available now and it adds DLSS 4 support to a big batch of new titles alongside fixes and ...
Valve literally gives Half-Life away now, but 27 years ago it was carefully crushing its angry pirates: "None of them had actually bought the game"
Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device Half-Life is $2 on ...
Half-Life: Alyx, VR’s first — and hopefully not last — killer app, turns 5
It’s trite to say this five years after launch, but Half-Life: Alyx felt like a door being kicked open, revealing what’s ...
Half-Life 2 RTX is struggling on Steam, as players face performance woes
The free Half-Life 2 RTX demo overhauls the classic FPS from Deadlock and Portal 2 creator Valve, but Steam players are ...