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What if… Nerf supplied the guns for popular computer games?

April 15, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Hasbro’s Nerf toy gun range has a place in the heart of many geeks. These colourful plastic guns fire foam darts, don’t hurt that much, but, youch, a direct hit certainly stings!

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cyberpunk 2077, destiny, doom, fallout 3, half-life 2, James Bond, Nerf

Updating Half-Life 2 with modern graphics

March 29, 2015 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

There’s some chat that this impressive update of Half-Life 2 to a better level of graphics isn’t impressive enough. Some gamers suggest the Cinematic Mod for the game is better. There’s a debate though. Half-Life 2 isn’t just about visuals; it’s about the mood and atmosphere. I think this mod does a good job at […]

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: half-life, half-life 2, Steam

Ellen McLain’s music: GLaDOS sings

June 10, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The voice of GLaDOS in Portal and Portal II is Ellen McLain. While not being awesome as a voice actor in Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 or Portal, Ellen McLain is an opera singer. I’ve not found it easy to dig up samples of Ellen McLain singing. I’m sure people search for McLain’s music but […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Ellen McLain, glados, half-life 2, portal, portal 2

The song at the end of Portal 2

April 22, 2011 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Mini-spoiler alert. I suppose if you’re super sensitive to spoilers then you’d consider this post one. We’re here today, class, to feature the song from the end of Portal 2. The spoiler? It’s from the end of the game. The end! Actually, heck, let’s feature a whole load of songs and make the song at […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Ellen McLain, glados, half-life 2, portal, portal 2

Rock mushrooms return to demand Half-Life 3

January 10, 2010 by Andrew Girdwood 4 Comments

Let’s not beat around the bush; the 8-Bit Pwny CLub has become my favourite game review program of the naughties – er, the noughties. Theweirdone and I are still singing “we are fungus…” I think we might also join the mushrooms in their praise of Valve and Half-Life too. This video ranks as a “must […]

Filed Under: Games Tagged With: half-life 2, left 4 dead, portal, valve

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