Where it began: Valve’s release of Half-Life and its mod-friendly engine sparked a wave of community creativity that still thrives today. From mod to masterpiece: Fan projects like Counter-Strike, ...

Zunair Shafiq has been writing and gaming since he was a kid and now spends most of his time combining the two. He wants to play every game, good or bad, but has a soft corner for Simulation and ...

With over ten years in the industry writing for sites like The Escapist and Unwinnable, Elijah’s your guy for all things strange and spooky in gaming. He's also written the longest list ranking more ...

Half-Life has its fair share of gore and horror elements, but it was never the splatterhouse experience some shooters can be. Of course, part of that was due to graphical limitations in 1998; trying ...