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Steam cutting 55.8% off all Half-Life games
It seems that a poll recently went down over at GameSpot that asked gamers who the All-Time Greatest Game Hero was. Well, it seems that Half-Life’s star Gordon Freeman won the poll with 55.8% of the votes.
To celebrate such a feat Valve is cutting 55.8% off the price of all Half-Life games this weekend as they continue with their weekly deals.
Haven’t played Half-Life 2 yet? Now’s your chance.
via steam
Half-Life, Counter-Strike Lifetime Sales Figures Revealed
Valve has finally released lifetime retail sales figures for some of its most popular games, including the Half-Life and Counter-Strike series. The sales figures reveal that the studio has sold over 32.8 million copies of their games since their first title back in 1998.
Interestingly, sales from Steam is not included in the below list, so the figure is actually much higher. The following numbers are also sales on only PC, not taking into factor console sales, and were published first in Game Informer and then on Gamasutra.
Here they are:
- Half-Life (Valve) / 1998 – 9.3 Million
- Half-Life: Opposing Force (PC, Gearbox) / 1999 – 1.1 Million
- Half-Life: Blue Shift (PC, Gearbox) / 2001 – 800,000
- Counter-Strike (PC, Valve) / 2000 – 4.2 Million
- Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (PC, Valve) / 2004 – 2.9 Million
- Counter Strike: Source (PC, Valve) / 2006 – 2.1 Million
- Counter-Strike (Xbox, Valve) / 2003 – 1.5 Million
- Half-Life 2 (Valve) / 2004 – 6.5 Million
- Half-Life 2: Episode One (PC, Valve) / 2006 – 1.4 Million
- The Orange Box (Valve) / 2007 – 3 Million
Freeman Doppelganger Defends CERN from Headcrabs
The closest real-life equivalent to Half-Life’s Black Mesa facility may be CERN, and that connection became even stronger when a photo of the Large Hadron Collider showed a Gordon Freeman look-alike standing by it.
Alarmed gamers at Reddit took the initiative of contacting CERN and the scientist in particular, giving him a wrecking bar, headcrab hat and Half-Life strategy guide.
Quite unusual for a physicist, the doppelganger proceeded to don the role of Freeman to defend the facility from alien forces which have been captured in all its pictorial glory.
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