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		<title>The Guardian Votes Half-Life 2 Game of the Decade</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/12/18/the-guardian-votes-half-life-2-game-of-the-decade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of British paper The Guardian have voted Half-Life 2 as being the Game of the Decade. There is a lovely little piece on the site about the game. The closing words in that article are my favourite:Half-Life 2 is the game of the decade, not just because it's good, but because it encapsulates so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laidlaw: Half-Life 2&#8217;s Alyx Works Because &#8216;She Gives You Back Emotion&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/11/02/laidlaw-half-life-2s-alyx-works-because-she-gives-you-back-emotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DigiQ8</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gamasutra had an interview with Laidlaw and fellow Valve writer Erik Wolpaw. Laidlaw made some comments on Gordon Freeman's development as a lead character and how it has more to do with his external interactions rather than internal mechanisms.

So we were trying to do a thing where it wasn't about one guy who is saving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gordon Freeman Needs You!</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/09/21/gordon-freeman-needs-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ennui</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Half-Life 2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Gamespot's current Greatest Video Game Hero contest was first mentioned on our community forums, I ignored it.  Gordon Freeman was matched against Snake of the Metal Gear Solid series and trailing by tens of thousands of votes, a slump that at the time seemed overwhelming to me.  No way could the illustrious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chet Faliszek on Valve and Left 4 Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/08/19/chet-faliszek-on-valve-and-left-4-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Valve's Chet Faliszek has opened up about Valve and Left 4 Dead and more to Jim Rossignol in Jim's Ragdoll Metaphysics column on Offworld. Before you start asking, no Chet doesn't have any Episode 3 news.  However he does have some other interesting things to say:The Orange Box was weird. It reminded me of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Freeman&#8217;s not done&#8221; &#8211; Lombardi</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/06/03/freemans-not-done-lombardi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Lombardi and Chet Faliszek have talked at length with Shacknews about Left 4 Dead, but Lombardi did drop a hint about the Half-Life series:Shack:  Most of us were not expecting Left 4 Dead 2 to show up at E3. You guys had teased more information on Half-Life 2: Episode 3 earlier in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s In The Box?</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/03/19/whats-in-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hectic Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who knows what is in the box, and this may be nothing but an amazing video has popped up on youtube using Half-life sound effects as well as many other Combine / Citadel like references (and LOST music). See the video below, but if you want to join the internet investigation it starts with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fan-made HL2 movie</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2009/02/13/fan-made-hl2-movie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 18:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ennui</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few emails from the community have brought my attention to Escape from City 17 - Part One, a fan-made, no-budget film set in the Half-Life universe, created by the Purchase Brothers.  It features impressive melding of CG and live-action footage to make one of the most impressive and pretty fan-made Half-Life shorts ever. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valve&#8217;s Lifetime Retail Sales Revealed</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2008/12/03/valves-lifetime-retail-sales-revealed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.halflife2.net/2008/12/03/valves-lifetime-retail-sales-revealed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DigiQ8</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.halflife2.net/?p=1494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gamasutra revealed Valve's Lifetime Retail Sales For Half-Life, Counter-Strike Franchises. Revealing that the studio has sold over 32.8 million games since the 1998 release of the first Half-Life. 


	Half-Life: 9.3 Million
        Half-Life Opposing Force: 1.1 Million
        Half-Life Blue Shift: 800,000
	Half-Life 2: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valve is in Your Head</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2008/11/22/valve-is-in-your-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>-smash-</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Straight out of a med journal, Gabe Newell writes to Edge that at Valve they used EEG machines to monitor playtesters with.  This allows them to "know for sure of something is actually frightening the playe" as they monitor heart rate and breathing levels during a person's experience with the game...  

Direct measurement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half-Life vs Half-Life 2</title>
		<link>http://www.halflife2.net/2008/10/14/half-life-vs-half-life-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.halflife2.net/2008/10/14/half-life-vs-half-life-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Alec Meer has written an interesting little piece explaining why he prefers Half-Life to Half-Life 2. It is a very interesting piece, read this little snippet:

Oddly, I find HL a much more convincing journey too. Being trapped underground excuses the linearity, while HL2’s more open topography requires more uncomfortable compromises [...]]]></description>
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