

The team hopes it would be “a full-scale Half-Life game built not for VR, but as a game accessible across all traditional gaming platforms.” Keighley suggests that the majority of Valve’s Half-Life team indeed wants to make another game after Alyx.

Per PC Gamer, Keighley's interactive “storybook,” titled Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours, is about the development of the newest entry into the beloved franchise, and concludes with a section on what’s next for the Half-Life. Ultimately, Freeman uses the cooperation of surviving scientists and security officers to work his way towards the mysterious "Lambda Complex" of Black Mesa (signified with the Greek "λ" character), where a team of survivors teleport him to the alien world Xen to kill the Nihilanth, the semi-physical entity keeping Xen's side of the dimensional rift open.The hopes and dreams for fans of Valve’s Half-Life franchise have been reignited once again on the word of Alf’s best friend and creator of the Video Game Awards, Geoff Keighley. Throughout the game, a mysterious figure known (but not actually referred to in-game) as the "G-Man" regularly appears, and seems to be monitoring Freeman's progress. Freeman and the other surviving Black Mesa personnel to keep them from talking. Marine Corps special operations unit dispatched to cover up the incident by eliminating the organisms, as well as Dr.

Freeman becomes one of the survivors of an experiment at Black Mesa that goes horribly wrong, when an unexpected "resonance cascade"-a fictitious phenomenon -rips dimensional seams, devastating the facility.Īliens from another dimension known as Xen subsequently enter the facility through these dimensional seams (an event known as the "Black Mesa incident"). As Freeman tries to make his way out of the ruined facility, he soon discovers that he is caught between two sides: the hostile aliens and the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, a U.S. The game's protagonist is the theoretical physicist Gordon Freeman, an 27-year old MIT graduate who holds a Ph.D. Most of the game is set in a remote desert area of New Mexico in the Black Mesa Research Facility, a fictional complex that bears many similarities to both the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 51, at some point between the 2000s.
