Interesting facts about the game

This category presents the most interesting material about Half-Life. Most of it was found bit by bit on the Internet.

Subsections of this category:

Half-Life secrets - mysteries and curiosities of the game, map secrets. Secrets are interesting to any player in any game.

Bugs - a kind of oversight by the game developers that lets the player, by performing certain actions, do things that were never intended, for example dealing huge damage to an opponent.

Articles and materials - information on setting up and improving the game. Descriptions of little-known features of game clients.

Game news - the latest gaming events. The most popular topic in this section is Half-Life and its mods.

Site news - the most significant changes on our site. Announcements, events we hold.

14-04-2013, 19:28

Operation Black Mesa in Development

Operation Black Mesa is a remake of the 1999 game Half-Life: Opposing Force on the Source engine. This mod has nothing to do with Black Mesa. Operation Black Mesa is being developed by Tripmine Studios. According to the project lead, the game will come out in the first quarter of 2014, but it will only be the…

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1-04-2013, 15:04

The Advantages of Licensed Games

All licensed Valve games are distributed through the Steam client, a gaming platform that includes a game catalog and a social network for players, or gaming community. The following games are distributed and launched through Steam: Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Adrenaline Gamer, Sven Co-op and others. The Steam catalog…

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11-02-2013, 15:46

Enter the Freeman

A short film about Half-Life and Dr. Freeman. The film was made by a group of volunteers. The quality is pretty good; it's shot professionally. The film is not official.

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7-02-2013, 22:45

A Half-Life and Portal movie is coming

The famous director J.J. Abrams announced at the DICE conference that he wants to make a movie based on the Half-Life and Portal series. J.J. Abrams is known for films such as "Star Wars", "Lost", "Star Trek", "Super 8" and others. After the DICE conference, Abrams said that the movie based on Valve's games is still…

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5-02-2013, 02:19

Secrets of the KILLING_BOX_SECRET2 map

Another review of map secrets. This time it's a "killbox"-type map. Despite its simplicity, the map has a lot of secrets. I may even have missed something, but the review still turned out pretty big. Of course, although this killbox is no match for 6000_6v6 and hldm_forever when it comes to secrets, it has plenty of…

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25-01-2013, 15:55

Half-Life is now on Linux too

Today Valve released a Linux port of Half-Life 1. This means that users of Linux desktop computers can now play the game without resorting to Wine and other tricks.

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24-01-2013, 14:05

Half-Life 1 walkthrough (Video)

A video walkthrough of Half-Life 1 with Nifedov. Unlike many other walkthrough videos, this one has excellent sound. It's pretty interesting to watch. The whole walkthrough is split into several parts.

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20-01-2013, 17:07

Half-Life Map Secrets. Episode #6 (Video)

The sixth video episode of Half-Life map secrets, and the first one of 2013. The episode shows in detail how to find hidden rooms, get into various hideouts on the maps, and so on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FRfbNfxqO0

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17-01-2013, 18:27

The respawn system

If you've played against reasonably strong players (not counting monsters like Kanmiir), you've seen that after a frag they aim in advance at the spot where the killed opponent will appear and kill him the moment he spawns. This article takes (yet again) a general look at the respawn system and provides maps with…

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