30 Days of Half-Life

Over the course of October, I’ll be drawing my way through the plot of Half-Life.

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30 Day Half Life Drawing Challenge by Mart Virkus

30 Days of Half Life - 02 - Hazardous Environment

Half Life Challenge #3 - Anomalous Materials

Resonance Cascade by Mart Virkus

Unforeseen Consequences by Mart Virkus

Gordon Freeman's crowbar by Mart Virkus

The story of course follows Gordon Freeman, a lowly logistics engineer (he literally just has to push around a trolley) who finds himself in the midst of an alien apocalypse after two irresponsible scientists fail to abort an incredibly reckless experiment despite some obvious warning signs.

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This War Of Mine – A Depressing Review

This War of Mine is a depression simulator that asks the question few games have: “how shit are you at being a decent human?”

This war of mine review by arcade rage

If you’re the kind of person who thinks most war games lack realism, then “This War of Mine” is for you – you’ll enjoy various fun activities such as “digging through rubble with bare hands”*, “begging for clean drinking water”* and “talking your characters out of committing suicide”*.

*- actual goddamned features – WTF.

No Man’s Sky – a Review

It took me about 12 hours to realize that No Man’s Sky is basically an intergalactic mining simulator (I am not a smart man).

No Man's Sky review

Still, despite the distinct lack of meaningful activities – or precisely because of it – that I love it.

As others have pointed out, the beauty of No Man’s Sky is in hammering home the point that no matter what you do in life, it’ll never put a dent in the Universe.