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  • Poll Question 292 – Could Half-Life 3 be a Freemium game?

    · Poll Questions, Read · 15 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    A few days ago, Cliff Bleszinski (he of Unreal and GOW fame) wrote a nice piece about micro-transactions in the gaming industry.

    And then a today, I saw this piece by Rory Cellan-Jones on the BBC about games and the Freemium business model and couldn’t help but wonder:

    Could Half-Life 3 be a Freemium game?

  • Two New Input Devices

    · Phillip's Blog, Read · 4 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Recently, I came across a couple of new input devices and they showed people playing games.

    I’m pretty happy with the mouse and keyboard and besides my occasional dreams, sticking with both is fine for me.

    That said, I would be averse to testing and review these two products.

  • Apparently, I can sell DOTA 2!

    · Phillip's Blog, Read · 13 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Somebody just asked for a copy of DOTA 2 and since I still have about 30 left, I sent them one.

    But as I was doing it, I noticed a new button underneath the usual ones: SELL.

    So I click it and the image below is what I saw.

  • Prototype 98

    · Half-Life, HL-Mods, Play · 15 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    You wake up in a bedroom, after volunteering to become a test subject in some form of experiment related to The Black Mesa Research Facility.

    Follow the instructions and perform the tests with intelligence, creativity and diligence.

    You will be rewarded at the end.

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  • Street Stuck

    · Half-Life 2: Ep2, HL2-Ep2 Maps, Play · 25 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Author’s Note:The objective of this short demo is to recreate the City 17 universe in a much more detailed, destructible and architecturally enhanced environment, one that should have been originally presented to us in Episode 1.

    This demo was originally part of a much bigger project, but has now been transformed into a small portfolio gameplay piece.

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  • Text Interview with Thobias Fast AKA Forsete

    · Read, Text Interviews · 4 Replies

    I managed to have a chat with Thobias Fast AKA Forsete, the maker of The Evasion, a recent Half-Life 1 mod release.

    I ask my now standard questions.

    Enjoy!

  • The Evasion

    · Half-Life, HL-Mods, Play · 20 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Playing as Adrian Shephard set shortly after the nuclear bomb that devastated the Black Mesa Research Facility.

    You find yourself on a Xen “island” being kept out of harms way.

    Fortunately, you have managed to contact a scientist back on Earth and he can help you return.

    Whether that’s a good thing only time will tell!

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  • Life Lost Prison

    · Half-Life 2: Ep2, HL2-Ep2 Maps, Play · 19 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Here are 3 maps that the author feels he won’t finish.

    It’s essentially an “escape the prison” scenario.

    Don’t relax for too long as things can get difficult pretty quickly.

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  • Blue Shift: Focal Point

    · Blue Shift, Games · 17 Replies
    Single Player First Person Shooter Maps and Mods for Half-Life 1, 2 and Episodes 1, 2 and 3

    Barney Calhoun and Rosenberg reach an older part of the Black Mesa Research Facility where a disused teleporter system is being reassembled by scientists.

    To make the teleporter completely operational, Calhoun is forced to travel to Xen and activate a device to allow teleportation to happen. Notable in the older part of the facility are older-looking models of health and HEV chargers and the use of hand scanners instead of retina scanners for identification.