The first expansion to Half Life 2 doesn't provide much excitement.

For a company whose only other major release was the original Half Life, Valve has pushed the boundaries with fresh, bold gameplay that stays true to the legendary legacy.

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Games publisher Electronic Arts (EA) has won the rights to distribute Half Life 2 and other games from developer Valve.

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No one would have guessed that violent computer games could actually hold the key to saving lives rather than snuffing them out, until a team from Durham University postulated otherwise.

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Leadtek's 6600GT offering was a mixed bag this month. It didn't handle our DirectX 8 tests too well, but 3DMark05 saw a complete about face to see it sit in first.

If soundcards were supermodels the X-Fi would be the Claudia Schiffer of the model world. Or maybe Jennifer Garner, since our first hands-on look at this card can be succinctly summarised as 'kicks major booty'.

Not since Back to the Future Part 2 premiered, have we been so excited about 3D. And now it’s here in Sydney, we went out to experience the units for ourselves.

An exciting glimpse at future performance, but by the time games appear to make them worth buying, the price will have plummeted.

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Nick Ross straps himself to ATI’s would-be SLI killer and asks does it deliver the goods?

We know you want to play games, so we've put 18 PCI Express graphics cards under the microscope to see who really does the job the best.

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Half-life to share its platform with Doom.