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I've added full head tracking and weapon tracking to Half-Life 2 in preparation for the Oculus Rift dev kit launch. Once the official rift apis are available I'll integrate them, giving people ~70 hours of content (this also works for episode 1 & 2, the lost coast and tons of user generated maps, etc) that they can use to test out their Rift.

This video shows a handful of scenes of me ... [read more]

The developers of Black Mesa issued this recent comment on the launch of their social media campaign:

"Thank you all so much, it's really great to have your support! With your help we have now kicked off our social-media campaign towards our first release! You can expect more updates from us in the near future. Today we are sharing this fantastic batch of screenshots that really gives you the first glimpse into the gameplay of Black Mesa. This is just the beginning. We have more in stor... [read more]

The original Half-Life was a truly ground-breaking title. So much of what we take for granted in current games, specifically first person shooters and action games, can be traced back to this critically acclaimed effort by Valve Software. Half-Life was notable on a number of fronts (for simplicity I have limited that number to four, the rule of three be damned):
The immersive and (then novel) presentation of story through scripted events...
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Two unidentified fans were found outside of Valve's offices in Bellevue, Wash. today pleading for the release of Half-Life 3...
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Fixed a bug in SourceTV that would sometimes corrupt demo data

Team Fortress 2
Cow Mangler changes
Fixed the charged shot sometimes doing more damage than intended.
Fixed a bug that caused the projectiles to stay in the w... [read more]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Updated the localization files

Team Fortress 2
Fixed a Linux dedicated server crash caused by the Replay director
Crash would happen whether the server was capturing Replays or not
Fixed the Map Stamps Collection bundle m... [read more]

Remember when Half-Life came out in 1998 and it was one of the best first-person shooters ever made? Remember when the same thing happened in 2004 when Half-Life 2 came out? And in 2007 with Half-Life 2: Episode Two? Not too many franchises out there boast such preposterous standards of quality. Few can hope to be as memorable. None have induced such acute anxiety in their fan bases...
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Fixed a Linux dedicated server crash in vphysics.so
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Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Reduced CPU usage for idle servers

Team Fortress 2
Added the Splendid Screen, Ali Baba's Wee Booties, and the Mantreads to the whitelist for Medieval mode
Added a server console message when a player is sent to the server... [read more]

Updates to Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

Source Engine Changes (CS:S, DoD:S, TF2, HL2:DM)
Updated the shared interfaces for the TF2 Free To Play update
Updated the shared localization files

Team Fortress 2
TF2 is now Free To Play
Added the Uber Update: http://www.teamfortress.com/uberupdate/
Added PL_Barnblitz, a new Payload map
Added all kinds of ... [read more]