
What's your favourite piece of Valve concept art? Mine's Aleph from "Prospero" (above image), a cancelled game that was supposed to be this interdimensional story-based MMO where you visit different worlds


Don't worry Gordon! She's debeaked and completly harmless!
What's your favourite piece of Valve concept art? Mine's Aleph from "Prospero" (above image), a cancelled game that was supposed to be this interdimensional story-based MMO where you visit different worlds
Exploring Valve Archive, part 32 - Unused rebel variety valvearchive.com>archive>Half-Life>Half-Life 2>Art>Creatures>Citizen>rebels.jpg One interesting thought keeps tickling my brain, and that's this: City 17 is comprised of of citizens from all around the world, so why do they all sound American? The reason is, of course, limitations of the time. Every citizen shares the same few voice actors, and it's left to our suspension of disbelief to see each character as their own individual. Marc L…
I have a particularly strong head canon. I believe that Combine soldiers think just as much as you and me, but their memories are consistently wiped. Some of the Combine soldier lines from HLA supports this, promoting the idea that they're still "human" in there, but at any sign of questioning orders - "cognitive dissonance" - their memories are wiped, crushing any resistance they may have had. Imagine being in that scenario - you need to be completely compliant, both physically and mentally,…
VALVE DECKARD SPECULATION TIME Given the recent news that Valve could be making a "consolised PCVR experience", I just can't get my mind of the thought of how is this going to change the industry? For those who aren't keeping up with the leaks and speculation, Brad Lynch (aka, SadlyItsBradley) and his team have been keeping on top of leaks and painting the picture of the "Valve Deckard", which was supposedly a successor to the Valve Index that was capable of running standalone ala Quest 2. Given the leaks of a supplementary console now doing the processing, it's looking less likely that this headset will be able to run VR games by itself. HOWEVER, my speculation proposal is this: This supplementary console, it could very well have a large battery for portable use. Perhaps not as elegant as having everything in the one headset, but separating the actual PC from the headset and making it portable allows for a lot of possibilities beyond just semi-mobile PCVR. If this were just a re…
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Found this deep dive into the Steam Machine from a really small channel, thought you guys might like it!
Exploring Valve Archive, part 31 - Valve's design process valvearchive.com>archive>Half-Life>Half-Life 2>Art>Creatures>combot.jpg From Valve's portfolio, we can see glimpses of their design process through their early concept art. Observed above, the City Scanner we're familiar with in current HL2 started off as clean and well-labelled art, highlighting the physical characteristics and mechanisms of the machine. Certain features like the spinning rotor dictate speed, the adjustable mandible …
Really proud of all the amazing teams here on lambdagen forming this brand new studio (with a sexy logo might I add). I'm truly proud to be part of this community, and I can't wait to play HL2-RTX!
Fun fact! We know for certain that there are at least *27* cities like City 17, as confirmed by the train times in the opening chapter. Any City with a larger number than 27 is unconfirmed.
My favourite Pyro moment in the comics :)