video games Happy birthday, Half-Life 2! Grant St. Clair

video games Half-Life 2 remaster drops; no word on Half-Life 3 Grant St. Clair

History Half-Life retrospective documentary Rob Beschizza

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

public health Thanks anti-vaxxers: Child flu deaths soar as vaccination tanks Ellsworth Toohey

video games We were inches away from the fabled Doom and Halo crossover Grant St. Clair

musk Elon Musk, from behind a massive army of bodyguards, now tweeting 150+ times a day Rob Beschizza

movies Editor seamlessly inserts Toy Story's Woody into Red Dead Redemption 2 Grant St. Clair

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