Where it began: Valve’s release of Half-Life and its mod-friendly engine sparked a wave of community creativity that still thrives today. From mod to masterpiece: Fan projects like Counter-Strike, ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

Half-Life has its fair share of gore and horror elements, but it was never the splatterhouse experience some shooters can be. Of course, part of that was due to graphical limitations in 1998; trying ...