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Portal (2007)
I told myself I wouldn’t, but screw it: This was a triumph. What are video games if not the ultimate expression of technology for its own sake? If NASA first got to the moon with the processing...
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Half-Life (1998)
Sad as it is, I bet many young people think Citizen Kane is just some overrated old movie about an asshole who misses his sled. Despite having so much to offer as merely a straightforward story, the...
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Half-Life 2 (2004)
There was a moment well into playing Half-Life 2 where I fell in deep, transcendent love. It was the only moment thus far in my video game excursions where I wasn’t playing a game so much as...
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Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006)
Looking back, why did people not approach the prospect of yearly Half-Life installments with the same suspicion as a Thomas Pynchon book signing or a Jeff Mangum world tour? (Okay, so every once in...
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two (2007)
For all its grimness and despair, for all the death and malice that finally creep past City 17′s anonymous citizenry and zero in on Gordon Freeman’s closest friends, Half-Life 2: Episode Two is...
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Half-Life: Full Life Consequences (2006)
Video games indulge their audience more than any other artistic discipline. If gamers line up for a franchise, its publisher will release increasingly uninspired yearly installments, until there’s not...
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Don’t Worry About Half-Life 3
Prepare for foreseen consequences. Last week, digital distribution giant and IRL Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium Valve Software unveiled three announcements about their plans to hurtle PC gaming into...
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