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A new Half-Life game released this week, which still feels weird to say. We quite liked Half-Life’s VR spin-off—Chris gave Alyx a 92% in his review—and have been goofing around in it all week, because the high Goofing Around Potential (GAP) is still one of the best aspects of VR games. For instance, James played some headcrab sports, as you can see in the video above (also on YouTube). If that doesn’t sell you on VR, I guess nothing will. Now, onto the rest of the week’s big PC gaming news: After declaring war on Steam, Epic is now challenging...

Washington state saw one of the first outbreaks of COVID-19 in the United States and it was this early glimpse at the looming pandemic that spurred Bellevue, Washington-based studio Bungie into action. Located just across Lake Washington from Seattle, as events began to worsen the Bungie team knew a drastic change in how the studio worked was almost certainly imminent.Over the past several weeks many developers and publishers around the globe have transitioned their operations to have staff working from home. Bungie, however, was one of the quickest, pulling the trigger on its new remote work arrangements admirably quickly.We probably...

Half-Life: Alyx has only been released for two days and players have already found a hidden Death Stranding Easter egg.Over on the Half-Life subreddit, Redditor KnightzIX stumbled across a dark box with the Bridges logo that any Death Stranding player would recognize, given the corporation's prominence to the PS4 and PC exclusive's story. If you haven't seen the Easter egg yet, take a look at the picture below, courtesy of KnightzIX. Photo credit to Redditor KnightzIX.The Half-Life: Alyx secret also has yellow tape wrapped around the box saying, "Void if tampered." Another Redditor verified the picture above with their own...

Released in 2014, Child of Light was a charming sidescrolling RPG developed by Ubisoft Montreal and directed by Patrick Plourde of Assassin's Creed 2 and Far Cry 3 fame. Ubisoft is currently giving it away, and if you grab it before March 28 you'll be able to keep it forever.The game's art style is its defining feature—when Andy reviewed it upon release he found it to be wonderfully polished but "thimble-deep", so don't go in there expecting to deliberate for hours over diabolically complex encounters. But do expect a good time: you can't argue with the price.There's quite a lot...

Doom Eternal’s campaign is so delicious and meaty that it might give you your fill of the demon-slaying first-person shooter before you can even think about multiplayer. And should you look at the dessert menu, you won’t find the typical apple pie or chocolate cake. Instead, it’s something new and exotic. I highly encourage you to give Doom Eternal’s last course a taste, because this outside-the-box, asymmetrical 2v1 Demons-vs.-Slayer Battlemode turns out to be the cherry on top.10 Best id Software WeaponsMaking multiplayer work well in a game designed to make you feel like the godlike combination of an unstoppable...

With tonight's Walking Dead episode "What We Become" marking star Danai Gurira's final appearance on the series as Michonne (as she and the character head off into the Rick Grimes movie trilogy), both Gurira and Walking Dead Chief Content Officer Scott M. Gimple appeared on AMC's Talking Dead after show to discuss the episode and Michonne's surreal "Sliding Doors"-style exit.Despite her character not dying, and living on to exist in a different Walking Dead property, Gurira was still, understandably, emotional about this episode. "It's overwhelming, in a sense, to have walked on this journey with this amazing character and this...