Opening up eight themed hotels across the United States, one has to wonder if Atari has just accepted that making games just isn’t for them any more.

"The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible."

VR hasn’t set the world on fire, but it has given the world some incredible experiences that just wouldn’t work outside of that medium. Yeah, look, I’m mostly talking about Beat Saber, but there are plenty of games to look forward to that’ll use VR properly. One of those anticipated games was Marvel’s Iron Man VR for PlayStation’s VR kit. …

Rumours about a new Left 4 Dead game have been circulating around parts of the internet for years. Turtle Rock and Valve’s quasi-AI directed games about killing zombies were an absolute blast to play co-operatively, and fans have been clamouring for a sequel. While games like World War Z have filled in that niche a little, they don’t quite compare to the thrills, spills and double kills from Left 4 Dead.

The recent announcement and reveal that the Half-Life saga will continue through VR has led to quite the sales boom for Valve’s own headset.

Virtual reality! It’s the virtually real future of gaming! If you’re a fan of strapping a monitor to your head and beaning your mom in the face by accident when she brings you tea while you play Beat Saber (Mom I am so so sorry), you’re spoilt for choice these days. PlayStation has its PSVR headset that has proven to …

Set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2, Alyx Vance and her father Eli mount an early resistance to the Combine's brutal occupation of Earth.

Half-Life 3 may be a pipe dream that’ll never be realised in this lifetime, but that doesn’t mean that Valve’s intellectual property isn’t going to resurface in one form or another in the years to come. One such project was rumoured to be on the horizon yesterday, a virtual reality title by the name of Half-Life: Alyx. Is it real? Yes friends, yes it is because Valve just confirmed it.