The endgame of Half-Life: Alyx follows as such: Alyx is on her way to find a massive structure hovering above City 17, kept in place by a mass of cables, simply known as "The Vault" by the Combine, ...

There is, of course, a massive difference in scope between the games. One originated from a tiny and relatively unknown indie team, while the other is made by one of the world’s most renowned game ...

I know I don't have the best knees. My body informed me of this during a drunken dance-off in a Leeds night club when one of ...

New Half-Life games make me do stupid things. When Half-Life 2 came out on PC, I trekked to GameStop to trade in my Xbox, controllers, and games. I had hoped to score hundreds in trade-in credit, but ...

I started with CNET reviewing laptops in 2009. Now I explore wearable tech, VR/AR, tablets, gaming and future/emerging trends in our changing world. Other obsessions include magic, immersive theater, ...

While VR game design is very different from flat-screen game design, Valve has done an excellent job in Half-Life: Alyx of keeping the essence of what makes a Half-Life game. Though the pace is slower ...

Tom Reimann is a writer and comedian and somehow Senior Editor of Features at Collider. He has written for Cracked.com, Mad Magazine, BunnyEars.com, and Some More News, and is the co-founder of the ...

Half-Life: Alyx has finally arrived, and as Dustin wrote in our glowing review, Valve has managed to "deliver the impossible" by living up to the expectations set by more than a decade of anticipation ...

What does it take to make a great watch? Time helps, obviously: whether that’s the few minutes it took to design the Patek Philippe Nautilus or the harried years-long race between Heuer and Zenith to ...

You’ve waited 13 years for a new Half-Life game, so I know you can wait a few paragraphs for me to get into the review. I want to talk about core loops. A core loop is the thing you do, minute to ...