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This fixed-camera survival horror mod is like a Half-Life and Resident Evil teleporter accident




On March 9, modder SellFace released Lost and Damned, a single-player mod for Half-Life 2's venerable Source engine. It's a cheeky, fun homage to Resident Evil that jumbles the two games up in a way that gave me whiplash (in a good way), and maybe the most surprising thing here is SellFace's pitch-perfect fixed camera gameplay...
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Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it's a delight

If you need more Half-Life 2 VR, you're in luck. Following the incredible success of Valve's own Half-Life: Alyx and the fantastic community-made Half-Life 2 VR mod, the creators behind the latter are back with more virtual reality adventures for the classic FPS game, with support for all SteamVR headsets including the Meta Quest 2, HTC Vive, and Valve Index. Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it looks spectacular.


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Half-Life 2: Episode One VR fan mod is out today

Back in January, the makers behind the excellent Half-Life 2 VR mod announced they were moving on to making a virtual reality goggle version of Half-Life 2: Episode One - and we now know it will be arriving on Steam later today. What's more, we also have a release date for their VR mod of Episode Two. That will come next month on April 6th, according to its Steam page.


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Half-Life 2 remade as classic Resident Evil-style horror game, out now

This is like pizza and ice cream, burgers and fries - two of my all-time favourites, Half-Life 2 and Resident Evil, fused together to make a new, classic-style, fixed-camera horror game, and it's out now and available for free. If you need something to fill the time before the Resident Evil 4 release date, I would say this is the one.


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RELATED LINKS:

Half-Life 2 VR Mod Episode One is out now on Steam, and it's a delight

Half-Life has better writing than Half-Life 2, for one simple reason

Half-Life 2 Episode One VR gameplay makes the gravity gun fun

'I was deranged'—Half-Life writer's regret at publishing Episode 3 story




Back in 2017 Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw published a real oddity: a wibbly-wobbly short story that was once intended as Half-Life: Episode 3. It's a weird old thing. Eli Vance is dead, Dr. Mossman tracks down the Borealis, Gordon and Alyx head off to Antarctica, and everything of course goes wrong. Laidlaw made some cursory attempts at disguise like gender-swapping characters and slightly altering their names, but it was clear this story was once intended as a resolution to a series famous for its lack of them...
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