Half-Life: Alyx
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Half-Life: Alyx mod tools are here, and there's already a lightsaber mod
Half-Life: Alyx’s mod tools have arrived.
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Fewer than 2% of Steam users own VR headsets, despite surge that followed Half-Life: Alyx
Just 1.9 percent of Steam users own VR headsets.
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Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play the full game outside VR
It only took a few weeks, but there’s finally a mod that lets you play Half-Life: Alyx without a VR headset.
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Valve didn’t consider vehicles for Half-Life: Alyx because it had to establish a whole “visual language” for HL2’s driving sections
If I asked you to tell me what the core components of Half-Life 2 were, you’d probably list some of the following: puzzles, pacing, gunfights, variety, crowbar, physics, and vehicles.
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The public story “didn’t match how we saw it” - Valve explains why Campo Santo worked on Half-Life: Alyx
Back in 2017, Firewatch developer Campo Santo unveiled an exciting trailer for In The Valley of Gods – a first-person adventure set in Egypt.
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"Perhaps the biggest" reason Half-Life: Alyx is a prequel was so Valve could capitalise on nostalgia
When Valve first started thinking about making a Half-Life game in VR, it took a bunch of Half-Life 2 assets and cobbled together a prototype – a small area inside City-17 that testers could move around in virtual reality.
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“The Boneworks thing is weird” - Valve says it took more inspiration from Budget Cuts for Half-Life: Alyx
In December last year, Valve News Network released a video claiming that VR title Boneworks had heavily inspired the direction of Half-Life: Alyx.
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A modder has brought Half-Life 2's opening scene to life in VR
One modder has used Half-Life: Alyx’s Source 2 engine to bring to life the moment Gordon Freeman enters into the City 17 courtyard at the start of Half-Life 2.
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Someone managed to (mostly) play Half-Life: Alyx without VR
The keys to making Half-Life: Alyx work in non-VR were seemingly left to us by Valve.
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Teacher gives geometry lesson in Half-Life: Alyx - check it out
A teacher in San Diego gave his students an online geometry lesson inside Half-Life: Alyx.
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Valve has a few reasons why Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened
Valve has explained why we never got Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
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Valve considered Portal for VR, but quickly realized it wouldn’t work
Valve’s road to Half-Life: Alyx wasn’t exactly straight.
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Half-Life: Alyx reviews round-up, all the scores
Valve’s flagship VR game Half-Life: Alyx launches on Steam today.
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Half-Life: Alyx - how to optimise your game for streaming and spectating
Half-Life: Alyx is one of 2020’s most anticipated games, but its nature as a VR exclusive makes it more challenging to stream compared to most games.
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Half-Life: Alyx pre-load available now, here's when it unlocks today
If you pre-purchased Half-Life: Alyx, you can now pre-load the game ahead of today’s launch.
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Valve Index restock should arrive before Half-Life Alyx
It was recently announced that there should be a Valve Index restock just in time for Half-Life Alyx, which launches later this month.
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New Half-Life Alyx gameplay features drones, headcrabs, and lots more
With just three weeks to go until launch, a batch of brand new Half-Life Alyx gameplay videos have surfaced online, featuring hostile drones, terrifying Headcrabs, and, of course, loads of pew-pew bang-bang guns.
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How Half-Life 2 influenced a generation to make Dishonored, Dying Light, and eventually, Half-Life: Alyx
Developers from Valve, Techland, Arkane and more breakdown the true appeal of a genre classic.
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Valve's Index VR headset is still sold out one month ahead of Half-Life: Alyx launch
We’re not even a month away from the release of Half-Life: Alyx and Valve’s Index VR headset is still completely sold out.
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The best VR games to play right now
I recently got access to the Valve Index and have been making my way through Steam’s large VR catalogue and uncovering some of the best experiences you can have with a headset.
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Valve Index sold 103,000 units after Half-Life: Alyx announcement - report
Unsurprisingly, we have another metric to prove that Half-Life: Alyx really did boost VR sales.
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Half-Life: Alyx can be played seated, Valve looking into more accessibility options
Valve shared a few details about its approach to accessibility in Half-Life: Alyx.
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Valve Index is out of stock everywhere
It looks like no one is able to buy a Valve Index VR headest right now.
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It's off-screen and there isn't that much footage, but here's our first look at Half-Life: Alyx gameplay
Valve has only shown a single trailer for Half-Life: Alyx so far, but some of those who went to play the game are starting to share their own footage.
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In the Valley of Gods "on hold" as Campo Santo devs work on Half-Life: Alyx and other Valve projects
As fans had feared, Campo Santo developers are now busy working on Valve projects.
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Half-Life: Alyx causes shortages in Valve Index stock in the US and Canada
Half-Life: Alyx has seemingly already created shortages for Valve’s Index VR headset.
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This Half Life mod will get you pumped for Alyx
Given the recent announcement of Half Life: Alyx, this revamped Half Life mod couldn’t have come at a better time.Developed by a modder who goes by the handle Jackathan, In Deep reimagines scrapped areas from the original 1997 Half-Life game. The official description reads as follows:“In Deep takes you through the scrapped version of Half-Life from […]