Half-Life News

Gabe Newell to receive BAFTA Fellowship award
Valve boss to receive UK award for his "outstanding and exceptional contribution to games."
News - Posted Feb 27, 2013 12:02 pm GMT
Half-Life now on Mac, Linux
Landmark 1998 first-person shooter ported to Mac OS X and Linux 15 years after its original release.
News - Posted Jan 25, 2013 7:41 pm GMT
Valve talks Half-Life movie
Writer Marc Laidlaw says Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, and Paul Verhoeven would make fitting directors for film based on shooter series.
News - Posted Nov 27, 2012 12:54 pm GMT
Gabe Newell headed to AIAS Hall of Fame
Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences inducting Valve cofounder as 17th member of Hall of Fame.
News - Posted Nov 15, 2012 4:10 pm GMT
Black Mesa Half-Life mod launching September 14
First part of Source-powered community mod will be released next week; initial release will stop at Lambda Core level, offering 8-10 hours of gameplay.
News - Posted Sep 3, 2012 5:40 am GMT
Apple CEO visits Valve HQ - Report
Tim Cook supposedly spends time at Half-Life, Portal studio in Bellevue, Washington, today; no comment from Valve or Apple on the matter.
News - Posted Apr 13, 2012 10:18 pm GMT
'Dangerous' for Steam to dominate digital PC market - Minecraft creator
Markus Persson praises Valve's digital distribution hub, but says only one major platform is "scary," and EA's Origin hub "does a couple things badly."
News - Posted Mar 16, 2012 2:50 pm GMT
Valve not planning hardware anytime soon
Company not planning to ship "any sort of hardware" in near future; admits "boxes" being built to test Big Picture UI mode for Steam.
News - Posted Mar 8, 2012 11:16 pm GMT
Valve worth $3 billion - Report
Business magazine Forbes finds Half-Life house to be valued in the billions, leader Gabe Newell's net worth estimated to be at least $1.5 billion.
News - Posted Mar 7, 2012 11:41 pm GMT
E3 2011: Valve playing with NECA
National Entertainment Collectibles Association announces agreement with Portal, Half-Life maker for toys, action figures, board games, accessories, and apparel from studio's stable of IP.
News - Posted Jun 8, 2011 6:17 pm GMT
30 million Steam-ed
Valve's digital distribution service hits new milestone on the back of 178 percent user growth; unit sales spike 200 percent in last 12 months.
News - Posted Oct 18, 2010 6:56 pm GMT
Valve opening Mac spigot May 12
Half-Life developer to support Apple's OS with Steam, back catalog next month.
News - Posted Apr 30, 2010 1:20 am GMT
Valve opens up to Macs
Half-Life studio announces full support of Apple's OS for Steam, catalog hits this April; Portal 2 compatibility confirmed; all future games getting simultaneous PC, Mac, 360 release.
News - Posted Mar 8, 2010 10:32 pm GMT
Pitchford opens up on Gearbox, Borderlands a '3-million-unit game'
DICE 2010: Studio president talks success of "looter shooter," outlines the philosophy and profit-sharing that helped his company sell 25 million games worth $500 million.
News - Posted Feb 20, 2010 12:52 am GMT
Half-Life, Portal scribes detail the Valve process
GDC Austin 2009: Marc Laidlaw and Erik Wolpaw go over developer's approach to storytelling and how they don't always know what they're doing.
News - Posted Sep 16, 2009 7:08 pm GMT
Activision, Valve tangle over 2002 lawsuit
Half-Life developer sues Sierra parent company for skimping on arbitrator-assigned multimillion-dollar settlement over royalty rights.
News - Posted Apr 30, 2009 10:53 pm GMT
Valve founder Steams up D.I.C.E.
Gabe Newell keynote address discusses the company's service-oriented approach, reveals Team Fortress 2 comic being made by the developers.
News - Posted Feb 19, 2009 4:31 am GMT
Daily Downloads: Blue Dragon, Mass Effect
New fan kits for Mistwalker and Mass Effect's upcoming RPGs joined by Ragnarok Arena Half-Life mod and Jazz: Hired Guns demo.
News - Posted Aug 28, 2007 1:22 am GMT
Charlie Cleveland's small-game biz
The maker of Half-Life's Natural Selection turns to Zen of Sudoku to pay the bills and explains how casual-game development and Steam will make his next game better.
News - Posted Aug 17, 2006 1:58 am GMT
Tarantino to direct Half-Life movie?
One wild rumor out of Hollywood has the Kill Bill director bringing Gordon Freeman to the big screen. Is it too good to be true?
News - Posted Jan 19, 2006 11:35 pm GMT