People still make Half Life 2 maps. If you go over to Planet Philip, there's a truckload of awesome singleplayer stuff. (Check out the Hall of Fame basically.) There's lots of HL1 maps there too. I don't know what that says about how 'great' the game is, but lots of people still enjoy the...
I don't think that their biggest mistake is at all "not doing episode 3 yet." I think Valve's biggest mistake was setting themselves up to do more half life with the episodes and especially the ending to episode 2. I think Valve is best when it's doing crazy, creative and new things. If they...
This guy's twitter has a strange background image. When you filter the color, you get this crazy graph repeating. People are saying the graph is of the decay of particles, basically half life.
It's happened.
People are significantly less mad on /r/HalfLife
People think that if they make a big enough flame war, Valve will reveal actual info on HL3. Valve won't, but that doesn't stop people from trying very hard to learn more in the only way they feel they can.
For anyone interested, the popular, six-years veteran of the battlefields and official Steam-hosted mod, Empires! is currently accepting any and all to help with a new round of testing for some big changes! If you have ever enjoyed playing Empires in the past, then please join. The game is...
You can just unlock the first chapter's dev comentary and play through the level with it on. The rest of the game will have commentary on, too. Alternatively, I think there is a ~ command, "commentary 1" I think, that will enable commentary on whatever map you're on, and it will stay on as you...
I have a good theory why: Valve is re-doing both Episode One and Episode Two along with developing Episode Three. Valve is going to release the Episodes as one continuous game.