Now the Germans can appreciate the satisfaction of slicing a zombie in half with a samurai sword and be covered in virtual blood at the same time!

Creating Half Life: Alyx reignited a spark in the company to develop single-player games… probably just not that single-player game.

Valve even treated us to a cinematic trailer, the first the game has recieved in eight years. Even if it wasn’t exactly impressive.

Following Valve’s trend of going behind-the-scenes on the development of games like Portal and Half-Life 2, it’s always a fun time to listen to the process of making a massive game.

No pressure or anything but the festival only lasts a week so you’ve either got to be super selective or really dedicated to trying them all.

The new update brings with it an entirely new campaign, a fully fledged survival mode and plenty of fixes and tweaks to the original game.

Valve is looking to make Steam a little more family friendly with the ability to filter out profane or abusive talk from your chats.

One can only hope that Valve trims the fat off of the last event because, quite frankly, 900 playable demos is just an unnecessary sensory overload.