Half-Life: Alyx level editor is now the focus of Valve’s development

Mar 31, 2020

When Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx last year, it said that a level editor would be available to the public, a commitment that remains on the Alyx website. “A set of Source 2 tools for building new levels will be available for the game, enabling any player to...

Half-Life: Alyx non VR mod

Mar 30, 2020

We knew it wouldn’t be long, but that was still pretty fast. Exactly a week after the VR-only Half-Life: Alyx launched, a mod that lets you run it on your desktop with a mouse and keyboard—with no VR headset or controllers needed—is here. Before you pony up the...

Valve cut the crowbar from Half-Life: Alyx in part because players kept assuming they were Gordon Freeman

Mar 26, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx spent roughly four years in development, and for about one-and-a-half of those years Alyx Vance had a crowbar. The iconic Half-Life melee weapon was ultimately cut, though, because testers got it stuck on everything while assuming they were Gordon...

Watch Half-Life: Alyx being played without VR

Mar 25, 2020

Half-Life: Alyx is excellent, by all reports, but it’s also VR-only, which means that a lot of Half-Life fans won’t be able to actually play it. Unless, that is, someone figures out how to make it work with standard mouse-and-keyboard setups, like a...

In the Valley of Gods remains on hold following Half-Life: Alyx launch

Mar 25, 2020

Announced in 2017, In the Valley of Gods was planned as developer Campo Santo’s follow-up to their acclaimed 2016 debut, Firewatch. Set in a remote valley in the Egyptian desert, In the Valley of Gods looked to build upon many of the elements that made Firewatch...

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