{"id":49722,"date":"2019-11-21T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=49722"},"modified":"2019-11-21T15:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:22:36","slug":"only-some-of-you-have-the-vision-to-play-the-next-half-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/11\/21\/only-some-of-you-have-the-vision-to-play-the-next-half-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Only some of you have the vision to play the next Half-Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Half-Life: Alyx Announcement Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2W0N3uKXmo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Valve announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.half-life.com\/en\/alyx\/\">Half-Life: Alyx<\/a>, the next &#8220;full-length&#8221; chapter in the saga. It&#8217;s not Half-Life 3, or even Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but it&#8217;s probably the best we&#8217;re going to get. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s exclusively a VR game, so fans of City 17 and The Combine will need to own hundreds of dollars worth of extra hardware to play it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For those that do have a PC-based VR headset, Half-Life: Alyx will take players on a prequel story to Half-Life 2. Alyx Vance, armed with groovy &#8220;gravity gloves&#8221; and chatty quips, swats leaping headcrabs out of the air like a champ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Owners of the Valve Index headset will get the game for free when it launches in March 2020. If you&#8217;re in the mood to see more, Geoff Keighley of The Game Awards has already posted a behind-the-scenes <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/-9K0eJEmMEw\">video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx, the next &#8220;full-length&#8221; chapter in the saga. It&#8217;s not Half-Life 3, or even Half-Life 2: Episode 3, but it&#8217;s probably the best we&#8217;re going to get. Unfortunately, it&#8217;s exclusively a VR game, so fans of City 17 and The Combine will need to own hundreds of dollars worth of extra hardware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[449],"class_list":["post-49722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-half-life"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Only some of you have the vision to play the next Half-Life - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2019\/11\/21\/only-some-of-you-have-the-vision-to-play-the-next-half-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Only some of you have the vision to play the next Half-Life - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx, the next &#8220;full-length&#8221; chapter in the saga. 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