half-life: alyx

Hello and welcome to a new episode of our games podcast! This week I travel deep into the Grid for a VR special, with Oculus Quest’s answer to Portal (yes, really), and then a reminder of why Valve is the best in the business of games design. Put on your VR headset of choice* and join me!

*VR headset not required

VR gaming has been threatening to disrupt the industry for many years, yet never quite living up to its promises. But between ‘Virtual Virtual Reality‘ and ‘Half-Life: Alyx‘, it’s starting to get a lot more convincing.

Buy ‘Virtual Virtual Reality’ on Oculus / PSN

Buy ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ on Steam

Inspired by the fact that the main character of Resident Evil Village can't stop losing his, we're talking about hands this week. We kick things off with a little history of hands in video games, followed by a discussion about the team's rankings of the best and worst video game hands. Then, we're joined by Valve developer Kerry Davis, who lets us interview him about the creation of the hands in VR game Half-Life: Alyx.

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Welcome to Gaming Times, a weekly podcast hosted by Isaac and Patrick. In this episode, we talk about Half-Life: Alyx being used for teaching, Animal Crossing: New Horizons becoming Japan’s second-best-selling game, Xbox Series S confirmed through a controller leak, Yoshinori Ono leaving Capcom and the Sony's State of Play. Do you want to suggest a topic? Send an email at gamingtimes09@gmail.com.

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The Synics (minus Tim this week) give their thanks to 2019 for all the great things to happen in gaming this year.  In the synical spin we also go nuts for Half Life: Alyx and wag our fingers at the Google Stadia release. What are you thankful for in video gaming this year?