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...

Here’s Half-Life 2 running in VR, using Half-Life: Alyx’s engine

Mar 30, 2020

It was only a matter of time before modders started using Half-Life: Alyx as a basis for a Half-Life 2 VR port. While a Half-Life 2 VR port hit Steam Greenlight back in 2017, and as of last year was still in active development, most people have been using a slightly...

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...

The latest Dead Cells patch adds a Half-Life crowbar

Mar 25, 2020

To celebrate the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, Dead Cells has just received a small update adding a new weapon, skin and diet themed around the Half-Life universe. The weapon, of course, is the crowbar, which doles out critical hits immediately after breaking a door or...

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