#November2018

The original ‘Half-Life’ is 20 years-old today and goddamn am I ever fucking old

half life 20 years old

Good goddamn, Half-Life turns twenty years-old today? My, my god. Time doesn’t stop. Not for me, not for Gordon Freeman, not for no one.

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Abrams: ‘Half-Life’ and ‘Portal’ movies still happening, have writers

J.J. Abrams.

Well, fuck. If the world isn’t going to give me a Half-Life 3, I’ll settle for a dope Half-Life flick. Which, if the Grand Resurrectionist of Star Wars is to be believed, is still happening.

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Original ‘Half-Life’ writer Marc Laidlaw has left Valve

Half-Life.

The writer of the original Half-Life has left Valve. I don’t know if this is directly impacting the development of Half-Life 3, or if the game is even *in* fucking development. But this is a bummer.

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Watch: ‘Half-Line: Miami’ is real, playable mash-up

Amazon is making an “ambitious” PC game with minds behind ‘Half-Life 2’, ‘The Last of Us’, and more

Half-Life.

Amazon has assembled themselves a fucking murderer’s row of talent to develop an “ambitious” PC game. What is this game? Who knows. Am I intrigued, given the talent involved? Aye.

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Cosplay: GORDON FREEMAN and HEADCRAB DUDE Just Enjoying Some Pretzel.

Cosplay: ‘HALF-LIFE 2’ Gordon Freeman and Alyx Give No F**ks

With each passing day, I become more and more certain I will never play Half-Life 3. My mortal coil shall be shed before the title’s release in 2022, and never will I know the conclusion. It depresses me. Gordon Freeman? Alyx Vance? They don’t really give two-tugs about it. Look at them hanging out in Target, buying some Blu-Rays and a couple of really neat-looking bowls to put spaghetti in. The easy life.

The Dude’s High 5s: Top 5 Fictional Handheld Weapons I Want To Own [Video Game Edition]

Not only am I the Dude, but I’m also A dude.   Like most males that are stuffed with testosterone and swagger like pirate god kings I love violence.   Let me be a bit more specific, I like the idea of violence.   I’d rather see it done in a movie or on a TV show in real life.   Better yet, I’d rather be the one doing the violence in a video game.   Today’s High 5 will look at the tools of the trade.   These are the weapons I’d want to wield if I was about to run through the streets on an anger fueled GTA killing spree (Probably in Salem, MA … driving in that city is aggravating).

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