Out of Lives

If you're a consumer of PC games and you're not clinging desperately to the past, you probably have a Steam account. Valve Corporati...

Whenever I write about a topic I've already covered, I'm in fear of accidentally contradicting myself. My thoughts and feelings chan...

Over the weekend, I played through Dear Esther with my girlfriend. I'd bought it from Steam for $2.49 because I was curious, and I'...

First, a brief history of the Half-Life series: 1998 — Half-Life 1999 — Half-Life: Opposing Force 2000 2001 — Half-Life: Blue Shift ; ...

I've always been a perfectionist. If I can't do something right, I don't like to do it; when I attempt any kind of work, I obses...

So many video games have been made over the past few decades that no single person could ever hope to play them all from beginning to end. T...