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Happy 10th Birthday to Half-Life!

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That’s right Valve faithful, just this week Gordon Freeman celebrated his valiant service at the Black Mesa Research Facility for the 10th time. That’s a whole decade of butt that Mr. Freeman has been kicking, and he’s opened up the door for tons of other great games.

It was the release of Half-Life that really put Valve on the map, and the video gamer’s world is a better place because of it. Games like Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fotress (2!), Natural Selection and Left 4 Dead have all come out thanks to Half-Life's humble beginnings. If it weren’t for the release of Half-Life 2 and the extremely flexible and stable Source engine, much of the landscape that we all love to shoot up from the first person wouldn’t be here today.

So give your best wishes to all the fine folks at Valve that have kept a strong decade of gaming alive. Without them, without Steam, without Gordon, we wouldn’t be spending so many countless hours (well, counted on our Steam profile pages) blowing out zombie brains and cursing those clever Spies.

 

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avatarHappy Birthday young Gordon

Happy Birthday young Gordon Freeman. May you live another ten years. I just plunked down 50bucks to purchase one of your cousins Left4Dead. May it be as great a game as you were and still are.

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avatarno mention that until

no mention that until midnight you can buy hl1 for $.98?

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avatarHalf-Life has always brought

Half-Life has always brought some really good shooters to the pc world and I love them all, even though I started playing half-life a little to late, I was still able to enjoy every bit of it. I cant wait for more Half-Life 2 episodes, the story, environments, and monsters jusw blow my mind everytime.

 

Congrats VALVe for bringing us an awesome FPS

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