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The Internet Is Freaking Out About A Half Life Update

This morning Half Life 2: Episode 2 updated along with most of the other games that were developed by Valve. The official reason for this update was to add Big Picture support to Valve's different games. But then why was Half Life 2's update nearly 300MB bigger than every other update? That's the question on everyone's mind. And things get even more complicated when you involve the cryptic video posted below.

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rrquinta4155d ago

oh half-life... will they rumors never cease?

ninjahunter4154d ago

"Our new world order begins"

jony_dols4154d ago (Edited 4154d ago )

5th Dec 2012 unveiling.

Look's like its going to be the unveiling of Respawn Entertainment's new game, with an extended trailer at the VGA's on the 7th.

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pixelsword4154d ago

UPDATE!: As previously suspected. the video isn't related to Half Life. It has been revealed to be a new Machinima show. So at least that mystery was put to bed. Now we just have to wait until people finish digging through Half Life's files.

You can view the official Steam thread where this is all going down below.

Okay, so this story is bunk.

Move on.

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wlchrbandit4154d ago

This video is for Machinima Respawn, nothing to do with Halflife or Valve.

The Machinima Respawn team have been teasing a change of their channel and the shows they produce for a couple of months now. They've (Sark and APL) bean repeatedly mentioning a "change", and "something big" that's happening to Respawn, but have been unable to give any details. Recently they've stopped uploading their weekly shows, now they upload this.

brish4154d ago

"The Internet Is Freaking Out About A Half Life Update"

I'm not freaking out about it.

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Capt-FuzzyPants4155d ago

What is that like binary code or something?

Knight_Crawler4154d ago

Its actually a live count of how many calories Gabe Newell consumes per millisec.

Trago13374154d ago

Congrats, that's another 3 month delay for half life 3, when will you guys learn lmao.

vortis4154d ago

@Trago1337

Even with all the jokes stacked it still doesn't equate to Gabe's weight.

But it doesn't matter, if we were to measure Half-Life 3's delay in Gabe's food intake it would be indefinite.

Let the good times roll...and roll...and roll.

LordLaguz4154d ago

A fat joke a day keeps episode 3 away~

poo3429472947924154d ago

I wanna see gabe's neck fat fight it out with George lucas' neck fat in an all out battle of the turkey necks live on the interwebz

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WildArmed4154d ago

"Our new world order begins"

KingPin4154d ago

the decoded message reads

"keep waiting motherf$%kers. episode 3 will never come but we will continue to tease you to keep ourselves relevant in your lives. you actually have a better chance of playing duke nukem forever 2 than HL:E3. peace be with you"

aGameDeveloper4154d ago

There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

Bloodraid4154d ago (Edited 4154d ago )

Indeed, friend.

Also, the number of people on here who acting as though binary is some mythical language of the gods is hilarious.

Besides, 'technically' it's not even the binary that matters here. It's most likely to be converted into base-10 or base-16 before being paired up with an ASCII chart anyway.

Bloodraid4154d ago

Yeah, I downloaded it and translated it. It says: "our new world order begins"

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strangelove4154d ago

The binary reads "Our New World Order Begins" the news article explains a few of the going ons currently happening with this video and the update.

Norrison4154d ago

I can see how that relates to half life, since half life it's an anti new world order game. But it says respawn team

PhantomTommy4154d ago (Edited 4154d ago )

There really isn't any solid evidence to suggest that the video is Half-Life related so I refuse to get my hopes up again. I am very curious about the 300mb update though....

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Infamous Video Game Endings That Left a Bad Taste

The most disappointing and infamous video game endings even sour the overall thoughts of a game. Most of these titles represent some of the finest entries in their respective series, marred by an ending we can't quite forgive.

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banger8812d ago

Far Cry 5....bullshit. This game had a great ending imo.

MrNinosan11d ago

There is no game called Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2, but Rebirth had a great ending imo. Felt robbed by the ending at first, but the more I've seen it and during my 3rd playthrough, I started to understand and realize a lot more that make me appreciate the ending.

Nerdmaster11d ago (Edited 11d ago )

I was enjoying FFVII Remake, even though those whispers throughout the game were annoying. But the ending was so bad that I don't even want to play Rebirth. On top of that, from what I saw on reviews, the ending of Rebirth is even worse.

Also, I'm glad to see Zero Time Dilemma being recognized as the trainwreck it is. After the amazing two first games (especially the near perfect second one), the low quality of the trilogy end is baffling. The new characters are bad, the old characters don't feel like themselves, a surprise "alien technology" pops out of nowhere, the big twist was like "eh?", and it doesn't really finish the story nor explains the loose threads from the second game.

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5 Ambitious Games That Shouldn't Have Been Canceled

Sometimes even promising titles never see the light of day. These are five of the most ambitious games that shouldn't have been canceled.

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GaboonViper270d ago

Silent Hills cancellation was a travesty.

mrbearbear269d ago

I still wonder to this day if it was a reboot, or sequel.

cammers1995270d ago

Lol. The tags made it so I didn't have to visit your website.

goldwyncq269d ago

Kojima wouldn't have started his own studio if Silent Hills didn't get cancelled so even if it stung at first, I'm fine with it.

chobit_A5HL3Y269d ago

i remember being so excited for patriots for years, only to have them release that siege trash. i hate how multiplayer games, pvp in particular, have ruined so many potentially good games.

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15 Years Ago This Month, Valve Announced Half-Life 2: Episode 3

Zack Zwiezen writes, "It seems like just yesterday when Valve announced a trilogy of expansions for their super-popular PC game, 2004's Half-Life 2. But it’s actually been 15 years since Episode 3 was announced. And while Valve has since released a new Half-Life game, it wasn’t the one the developer announced back in 2006."

Orchard1051d ago

Still hurts a little that we didn’t get Ep3… and the “leaked” plans for it sounded like a great finale to the HL2 story arc.

-Foxtrot1051d ago

It sounded fantastic and it's a shame we'll never get that

The ending of Half Life Alyx and what it did basically put the nail in the coffin for those plans.

Fntastic1051d ago

Whatever they release next i hope it's not catered to consoles first. Back 4 Blood seems to be going that route by having automatic flashlights, but i have high hopes Valve won't water down any games as they are usually released on PC way earlier, like HL2 and HLA.

CrimsonWing691049d ago (Edited 1049d ago )

Man, I wish I played Half-Life 2 when it first came out so I could love it like the fans do.

I played it on Xbox 360 and I thought it was ok. I recognize it set a standard for a lot of things like physics in game and story-telling in an FPS, but I think by the time I played it the design had been improved upon by other games.