Half-Life Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. The Half-Life saga is the story of Gordon Freeman, a physicist who finds himself at the center of resistance to an alien invasion that threatens the future of humanity. The latest entry in the Half-Life series, Half-Life: Alyx is a virtual reality video game developed by Valve. It was announced on November 18th, 2019, and released on March 23rd, 2020 for Microsoft Windows and May 15th, 2020 for Linux. Half-Life is back and better than ever. Alongside interviews with the original developers, the game is now available with the Uplink mini-campaign, Steam Deck support, updated graphics settings, new multiplayer maps, and some bonus restored goodies. Half-Life is a first-person shooter game from Valve. First released for Windows in 1998, this paid action game redefined the way video games incorporated storytelling and world-building. Half-Life is a first-person shooter (FPS) in which the player combines firearm combat, exploration, environmental interaction, and puzzle solving to progress through the game. Gabe Newell explained in an interview that the name Half-Life was chosen because it was evocative of the theme, not clichéd, and had a corresponding visual symbol: the Greek letter lambda, which represents the decay constant in the half-life equation. The Half-Life saga is the story of Gordon Freeman, a physicist who finds himself at the center of resistance to an alien invasion that threatens the future of humanity. Half-Life is a series of first-person shooter games created by Valve. The games combine shooting combat, puzzles and storytelling, and are played entirely from the first-person perspective. The original Half-Life, Valve's first product, was released in 1998 for Windows. Half-Life is a first-person shooter (FPS) that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most of its peers at the time, Half-Life uses scripted sequences, such as a Vortigaunt ramming down a door, to advance major plot points.