My favourite video game studio! Creators of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead, and many other games I've endlessly rambled about
Half-Life
Today I was binge watching Yahtzee and Gabe's Let's Drown Out videos, and specifically their series on Half-Life: Source, and while watching I got reminded of something very silly that used to be in Minecraft, which might actually be a reference to the game. There&
Valve Games
Today is October 10, 2025! Meaning that The Orange Box turns 18 years old today, hooray!!! Technically, The Orange Box is my favourite video game of all time, as it features my favourite game of all time, Portal! And it also premiered two other games which I also adore, Half-
Video Games
Although I haven't been able to continue playing as many new games as I'd like to, I have been looking for some games I could play more of simply to relax my mind a little! Fortunately, I noticed that a possible answer to both things has
Portal
An extremely silly coincidence relating to Portal's cut content.
Portal
It was only while writing about #RememberPortal yesterday that I noticed that I have actually barely talked about the game at all in this blog, despite being my favourite game of all time. I guess I've just had more of my focus on Half-Life 2 lately. Anyways,
Portal
On August 9, 2025, at 3:00 PM UTC (exactly 36 hours after uploading this), there will be a big Portal community event called #RememberPortal! Where we will try to get as many people playing Portal 1 at the same time as possible. #RememberPortal - LambdaGenerationOn August 9 2025, Valve fans
Half-Life
Yes, I am writing about Half-Life 2 for the third time in a row. I promise this will be the last time for now. Also [insert "Valve can't count to three" joke here]. Yesterday I achieved the Little Rocket Man achievement in Episode Two and
Half-Life
Yesterday I wrote about the Lambda Locator in Half-Life 2, which was the last achievement I needed to get all of them in the game. However, since the episodes are bundled in with the original game, for it to show that I got 100% in my profile I have
Half-Life
Yes! I Will Locate Some Lambdas!
Half-Life
But I guess I did it anyways.
Graphic Design
Recently I decided to get on with finishing 100%-ing Half-Life 2 (plus its episodes since they are bundled in now), and just today I was in a call with a close friend trying to do just that. Specifically I was getting the Get Some Grub achievement which is
Video Games
I finally got around to purchasing the Left 4 Dead games by Valve recently! Although I haven't had the chance to play them properly yet, I have spent some time messing around with the maps on GMod and going through their developer commentaries, and I've really