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

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

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