animation G-man from 'Half-Life' does Talking Heads' "Once in a Lifetime" Andrea James

Games Surprise trailer for Half Life: Alyx delights franchise fans Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (Now with Extra Monsters): At Least One Monster Per Paragraph! This Is Our Guarantee! Marc Laidlaw

Games Left 4 Dead 3 references found in Counter-Strike files Grant St. Clair

mistakes were made Australia is searching the desert for a dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny Mark Frauenfelder

cake The cake is NOT a lie Bob Knetzger

manga Machine-translated JoJo adds extra depth to an already-bizarre manga Grant St. Clair

Games Play the original Half-Life in the browser Rob Beschizza

Games Frasier looking at video games Rob Beschizza

video games The Last of Us Part II leads BAFTA Games Award nominations Gina Loukareas

radiation A new breakthrough in the study of Einsteinium, a rare element discovered in a 50s nuclear test Thom Dunn

History Castle Bravo: the chilling history of the 1954 US nuclear bomb test Andrea James

music A lot of sea shanties on TikTok may not actually be sea shanties, according to old scholarship Clive Thompson

music Half-Life with all sounds replaced with rave music samples David Pescovitz

Games Black Mesa, a reimagining of the original Half-Life game Rob Beschizza

Weird Modern archaeology is entering a paywalled Lovecraftian forum to access a 1929 edition of an Egypt travel guide John Struan

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Games The best video games of this young century Rob Beschizza

happy mutants SO LATE SO SOON: fun, genre-celebrating SF for young readers (of all ages!) Harry Tynan AKA Moose Malloy

science fiction Charlie Stross on the "soft genocide" of eugenics-tainted, alt-right climate dystopia Cory Doctorow