Half-Life fans rally and set new player count record on Steam:
—a first-person shooter developed by then-mostly-unknown Valve Software as the team’s first game—was released way back in November 1998 on PC. It changed games in a big way, with its focus on keeping the player involved in the story and action at all times and its quiet, non-shooter-like intro that sees the main character Dr. Gordon Freeman arrive late on his first day at work.
To honor this classic shooter, the still-active community got together digitally to play the game and celebrate all the memories they have for the long-running franchise via a social media event players created calledTo be a part of the event, all players needed to do was play at least 30 minutes of the original, classic