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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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'.

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

Look what four grand can buy you.

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.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.

Half-life to share its platform with Doom.

Logan Booker gets zombified by Black Widow Games' undead-themed mod for Source.

Two new addons just around the corner, now, with HDR support!

Using the same engine that has won Half-Life 2 more than a few friends, Bloodlines turns players into one of the 'eternally dammed' on the streets of LA. It comes with a terrific plot supported by excellent writing, and developer Troika has pitched Bloodlines squarely at an adult audience.

It isn't an add-on, a mod or a new way of playing the world's most popular online shooter. Counter-Strike: Source is the same game that's known, loved and often responsible for gamers sitting motionless for days on end. But it's now been ported to Valve's new 3D engine, the Source engine, giving us our first glimpse of the technology that will be powering Half-Life 2.

Highly anticipated PC game Half-Life 2 has broken Australian sales records.