If Half-Life 2 achieves one single thing, it's to put into sharp focus how far gaming has come, and more specifically how far behind some of its competitors in the FPS genre really are.

Created by Coaxion, a hobbyist studio of some 30 developers and modders, the power of Lambda Fortress is twofold. First, it lets you play Half-Life 2 as a co-op game, and I don't mean co-op in the ...

By the time of the trial 8.6 million copies of Half-Life 2 had been sold, its success seemingly unaffected by the leak of 4th October 2003. Half-Life 2 did well, then.