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	BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Gaming 'is good for you'
		Computer games are good for you, say researchers who studied the complex social interactions in the popular shoot-em-up Counter-Strike.
		Games such as Counter-Strike that rely on trust and co-operation give rise to strong communities and good friendships, said Prof Wright.
		As a result players prefer to game with people they know rather than strangers and they tend to tone down the bad language when those they do not know well are present.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/technology/2744449.stm (650 words)

	Half-Life Help, cheats and information
		Half-Life has been extremely high by every computer gaming magazine and company as well as being rated the game of the year for 1999 by most.
		While you continue to explore the same world as the original you will have new capabilities such as to manage other troops in a group and using these troops for their special skills such as a medic for healing.
		If you are a gamer who enjoys Network Parties or plays this game at school, work or at home with several friends this MOD is an excellent 'Free' addition to Half-Life.
	www.computerhope.com /games/games/halflife.htm (1211 words)

	Game Over Online Magazine - Half-Life
		In-game menu based performance settings is a must for today's games, and Sierra Studios should have known better.
		Half Life's story is unlike anything I have ever seen in the first person genre and it sucked me in.
		Graphics: Since Half Life is based on the Quake 2 engine I expected it to have a couple new features like fog or lens flares.
	www.game-over.net /reviews/pc/Half-Life.html (2470 words)

	Half-Life (computer game): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Half-Life is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software and published by Sierra On-Line in 1998, based on a heavily-modified core Quake I game engine.
		Half-Life was heralded by computer game critics for its gripping storyline, which would influence the development of other first-person shooters in the years to come.
		In the game, you play a scientist named Gordon Freeman who is a survivor of an experiment gone horribly wrong, allowing aliens from another planet to invade Earth.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ha/Half-Life-(computer-game).html (368 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dr. Isaac Kleiner
		Isaac Kleiner is a fictional character from the computer games Half-Life and Half-Life 2.
		A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals.
		He manages to survive the Resonance Cascade disaster of the first game; how he escapes from the Facility is not known.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dr.-Isaac-Kleiner (503 words)

	Game Studies 0102: Aki Järvinen The Halo Review
		Generally it is accepted that computer and video games constitute a cultural genre as such, but the distinctions, continuums and variations within that cultural genre remain uncharted.
		Or, that a game genre equals hybridity, because game genres are complex sums of interaction and rule mechanisms, audiovisual styles, and popular fiction genre conventions.
		Your average gaming situation in Halo, with the NPCs shouting out their war cries and generally acting according to militaristic clichés, equals one being thrown in the middle of a Starship Troopers or Aliens fighting scene (slap!).
	www.gamestudies.org /0102/jarvinen (1186 words)

	Urban Dictionary: half life
		An element's half life is the period of time it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to decay.
		For americium-241, it is known that half of the atoms decay in 458 years.
		The half life of a radioisotope is the time taken for the current level of radioactivity to drop to half that amount.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=half+life (386 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Dr. Breen
		Wallace Breen is a fictional character from the Half-Life series of first-person shooter computer games produced by Valve Software.
		He is the primary antagonist in Half-Life 2 and also the ruler of the Earth from his headquarters in The Citadel, the Combine stronghold near City 17.
		The antagonist is the character (or group of characters) of a story who represents the opposition against which the heroes and/or protagonists must contend.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Dr.-Breen (764 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Black Mesa
		Half-Life is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game developed by Valve Software and published by Sierra Studios in 1998, based on a heavily-modified Quake game engine.
		Black Mesa (game mod), the total conversion mod for Half-Life 2, intended to utilize the Source Engine at its full potential to re-create Half-Life better than the official release did.
		A total conversion, in the computer gaming sense, is a mod (short for modification) of an existing game that replaces 100% of the artistic assets in the original game, as well as a good deal of the gameplay.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Black-Mesa (984 words)

	News - Half-Life Mods Article /// Eurogamer
		There is no question as to the most popular PC computer game played on the internet, probably the most popular PC game ever in fact.
		Ever since the day Half Life was released back in 1998 the game has gone from strength to strength.
		GameSpy have a look at why Half Life continues to win Game of the Year awards, and is still the best PC game out there, after all this time.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=28213 (251 words)

	Blockbuster games develop action, plot Even best games aren't without Sin
		Game designers also have been focusing on the multiplayer aspect of their games, in which players duke it out with each other, rather than battling computer-controlled bad guys.
		In the game you are Gordon Freeman, a low-level researcher at the top-secret Black Mesa research facility.
		The single-player part of Half-Life is the closest I've seen a computer game come to giving you the feeling that you are a character in a movie.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/tech/98/12/11/compute.html (1206 words)

	Amazon.ca: Reviews for Half-Life 2: Computer and Video Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		You can tell this game was actually blocked by a stage director...the interactions between you and the other characters in the non-fighting bits is fantastic.
		It's a game that definitely puts you into the world it has created, and you feel a real attachment to the characters and game environment.
		Half Life 2 had a lot to live up to, with the hype that was given, and it certainly goes where it should with AI and graphics, the game is supremely fun to play, although the puzzles are not as challenging, in my opinion as the first, and the plot and characters are lacking.
	www.amazon.ca /gp/product/customer-reviews/B0000CEWSW/ref=dp_nav_0/702-2302087-4752821?ie=UTF8&n=3198031&s=videogames (1164 words)

	Blue's News: News Comments
		Exactly, games are no good when they devolve into nothing but a puzzle to solved rather than an experience to be lived.
		If you are playing a game that requires stealth and consideration as an approach, but instead just rush through it by running, dying, running upto the hard part, saving, running, dying, until you figure out how to run through it, then you aren’t really playing the game at all.
		Half Life 2 has probably taken 100 man years so far or more, assuming they have the same size teams.
	www.bluesnews.com /cgi-bin/board.pl?action=viewthread&threadid=41794&boardid=1&id=87844&start=40 (1372 words)

	PC Gamer Message Board :: View topic - Official PCG Magazine Poll: Greatest PC Games of All Time
		I've been playing PC games since the early days, my first computer was a PC XT with a 12 mhz clock and 20 mg of space in my hard drive, of course there wasn't mouse, and there wasn't even a 3 1/2 drive, only a 5 1/4.
		This was the first real computer game, fantasy roleplaying(outside of the arcades) that I fell in love with.
		I'm a fan of adventure games too, and I believe I've played every single game that Sierra launched, and I agree with you when you include the Legend of Kyrandia series, those were incredible games (I played and loved all three of 'em).
	www.pcgamer.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=62497&highlight= (1150 words)

	Popular computer game code stolen by hackers
		Half-Life is a popular computer game in which players take on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist at the fictional Black Mesa Federal Research Facility.
		The sequel to the original game, Half-Life 2 was scheduled for release Sept. 30, but was then delayed under mysterious circumstances.
		With the game source code freely available, however, it is possible that powerful cheats will be created before Half-Life 2 even hits the shelf in stores, he said.
	www.computerworld.com /printthis/2003/0,4814,85845,00.html (656 words)

	EBgames.com - Read All Reviews
		Half Life 2 will do down as one of the greatest games ever made.
		Its very obvious that the makers of this game worked their butts off to create this masterpiece, but it seems as though some things are left unfinished.
		The AI in this game is totally sweet whoever created this game for xbox should get praised but what I like the most is how its like your playing a computer game.
	www.ebgames.com /ReadReviews.asp?product_id=950865 (675 words)

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		If you have a system in your game - shaders, particles, physics, whatever, and you want to have it be about gameplay and not just presentation, then you are probably going to give the player some straight-forward method of having an input into that system.
		If you had to choose a game to demonstrate just how far games had come in every respect, how developers have learned to engage players on an emotional, even primal level, and how immersive and believable games have become, this would be it.
		There are lots of games coming out in the future that I am very excited about, but if anything comes along in the next five years which outclasses the experience on offer here I would be extremely surprised.
	www.game.co.uk /ViewProduct.aspx?cat=11142&mid=321046 (2503 words)

	FireArms v2.8 Full Client [windows] - MegaGames patches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It's a realistic modification of the game, that focuses on teamplay with Half-Life gameplay altered to the extreme.
		Each force has an certain amount of reinforcements, which stands by and are thrown into action as a game progresses.
		Slower computers will experience a slight performance increase with this set to 0.
	www.megagames.com /news/html/patches/firearmsv28fullclient[windows].shtml (476 words)

	GameSlice: Behind the Scenes of the Computer and Video Game Industry
		What it does have is a organic cohesion between all these elements; a synergy of sorts that ripens the game into a juicy and delectable interactive experience that takes you prisoner and never yields itself to prior conventions of what 3D games used to be all about.
		The idea of adding a plot and characters to a 3D action game is nothing new; The aim to have great artificial intelligence is old school; The concept of creating game environments that mirror real-life edifices has been done before.
		The suspense pulls you through the game: Valve latches you onto a leash and tows you through so many new areas early on you sit at your PC panting for the next new enemy, level, or weapon.
	www.gameslice.com /editorial/1130hl.shtml (1321 words)

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		Commentary mode gives one an insight into the development of a game that really is unprecedented, but even more recently, I chanced upon another medium in which Valve reveal quite a bit more.
		Raising the Bar is a hardcover book published by Prima Games that tracks the development of Half-Life and to a greater extent, Half-Life 2.
		One of these was a game to be called Prospero, which although never seeing the light of day, began to morph into a massively multiplayer game of sorts and was largely responsible for some of the features in Valve’s Steam utility.
	www.viaarena.com /default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=495 (627 words)

	Valve Uses XSI to Reinvent First-Person Computer Game Genre with Half-Life 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Each face has around 40 muscles that are used in game to build up facial expressions, all of which must be constructed for each character.
		Once modeled, textured and animated, the character is then exported from XSI into an intermediate development file format used to assemble all the elements of a character, such as base pose, actions, and facial expressions.
		According to Newell, this can only be healthy since games are a two-way experience; games are played, actively, energetically, rather than absorbed slack-jawed from the depths of a sofa.
	www.softimage.com /community/spotlight/valve_hl2/default.aspx (1468 words)

	Half-Life for PC - Half-Life PC Game - Half-Life Computer Game
		If you're into action games, or even if you're not, you should be playing Quake right now - it's as good as PC gaming gets.
		You are a space marine trapped on a mars station against hordes of invading aliens.
		Half-Life 2 is a very impressive and engaging shooter, and a faithful follow-up to one of the greatest PC games of all time.
	www.gamespot.com /pc/action/halflife/index.html?tag=footer;link (450 words)

	Half-Life 2 :: Computer :: Review :: DreamStation.cc
		For 90% of the game I was stuck fighting Combine soldiers whose brilliant tactics include running predetermined AI paths and taking cover behind exploding barrels, which I have come to believe is City 17’s main export.
		I would play through as much of the game as possible with just the gravity gun, in fact the game forces you to do this at one point, just because they knew it was so much fun.
		While the game doesn’t add anything innovative to the FPS genre and definitely has its slower points it is still far and away the best FPS experience ever made.
	www.dreamstation.cc /reviews/computer/half-life_2 (1018 words)

	Hottest computer, video games often fall prey to piracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		DALLAS -- A month before the video game's scheduled release in the United States this coming Tuesday, illegal copies of the hot sci-fi action title "Halo 2" were already circulating on the Internet.
		Fans were waiting last fall for the imminent arrival of the sequel to the popular "Half-Life" when unplayable source code from the personal computer game was stolen from developer Valve Corp. and circulated over the Internet.
		By the time New York-based Rockstar Games, a division of Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., released its PlayStation 2 crime saga "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" on Oct. 26, an illegally obtained version as well pictures of the game and the instruction manual had been on the Internet for a week.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/04310/407289.stm (647 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Half-Life - the Computer Game
		The main reason for winning the award is because it is arguably the first game of its genre to involve a fairly believable plot, which computer games of Id Software such as Doom were notorious for leaving out completely.
		The only other game noted to have such a compelling plot would be System Shock 2, and it erred by not keeping ahead of the curve in graphics.
		This is a game trying to create a believable experience, and as such, there are no levels per se, but there are divisions in progress to mark another theme.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/filmnetwork/A481033 (1210 words)

	Valve
		Team Fortress 2 is the sequel to the game that put class-based, multiplayer team warfare on the map.
		The game is designed to change the way players approach, manipulate, and surmise the possibilities in a given environment: players must solve physical puzzles and challenges by opening portals to maneuvering objects, and themselves, through space.
		Winner of over 50 Game of the Year awards, Half-Life set new standards for action games when it was released in 1998.
	www.valvesoftware.com /games.html (421 words)

	Computer Camp Courses: Game Modding Using Half-Life 2 at Cybercamps Summer Computer Camp
		Modding is so fun, game manufacturers are now designing their games with modders in mind.
		For serious gamers and a new twist, be sure to add Game Modding: Warcraft 3 to the mix for a totally fun and immersive summer experience.
		Game Modding: Half-Life 2, or Game Modding: WarCraft 3
	www.cybercamps.com /game-modding-halflife2.aspx (560 words)

	Games that make leaders: top researchers on the rise of play in business and education \| WTN
		One of the biggest users of games as training tools is the U.S. Army, which released the free tactical game America’s Army to boost its recruitment and has worked with commercial game companies on a variety of other titles.
		Games such as America’s Army and Full Spectrum Warrior—which is available commercially with a fraction of the features the Army’s version has—are part of a culture shift in the military, he said.
		Video games dimensions and reality are vastly different and children who don't know the difference should not be playing games that are not for their age level.
	wistechnology.com /article.php?id=1504 (11529 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Half-Life 2' rules action-game genre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This game is a shooter, so plenty of weapons and ammo must be found and used.
		While "Half-Life 2" is the finest computer game of the year, it is not a flawless one.
		One problem, now solved with a downloadable patch, prohibits players from installing the game to their hard drive if they choose not to install "Counter-Strike: Source." Another glitch may cause audio "stutters" in the game that makes dialogue or music sound like a broken record for about two seconds or so.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/products/games/2004-12-06-half-life2-review_x.htm (540 words)

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