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  2. Black Mesa Research Facility - Wikipedia

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    The Black Mesa Research Facility (also simply called Black Mesa) is a fictional underground laboratory complex that serves as the primary setting for the video game Half-Life and its expansions, as well as its unofficial remake, Black Mesa. It also features in the wider Half-Life universe, including the Portal series.

  3. Gordon Freeman - Wikipedia

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    In the Half-Life saga, Gordon Freeman is a silent protagonist who, despite lacking formal weapon training, survives a chaotic inter-dimensional incident at the Black Mesa Research Facility. In Half-Life 2, after being kept in stasis for nearly two decades, Freeman battles the Combine Empire to liberate Earth. He gains legendary status and ...

  4. Unintended consequences - Wikipedia

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    An erosion gully in Australia caused by rabbits, an unintended consequence of their introduction as game animals. In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences, more colloquially called knock-on effects) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen.

  5. Half-Life (series) - Wikipedia

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    In December 2008, Valve announced that the two main Half-Life games had sold 15.8 million units in retail (9.3m for the first, 6.5m for the second), while the Half-Life expansions [85] had sold 1.9 million (Opposing Force: 1.1 million, Blue Shift: 800,000) and Half-Life 2 expansions 1.4 million units (all for Episode One) by the end of November ...

  6. Characters of the Half-Life series - Wikipedia

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    Gordon Freeman, PhD, is the silent protagonist of the Half-Life series and the playable character in Half-Life and all games in the Half-Life 2 series. He is a theoretical physicist and holds a PhD from MIT in that field. At the time of Half-Life, he works at Black Mesa Research Facility, a facility in New Mexico, conducting nuclear and ...

  7. Alyx Vance - Wikipedia

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    Alyx is the titular playable protagonist of the 2020 virtual reality game Half-Life: Alyx developed by Valve. [1] The game follows a 19-year-old Alyx's story in City 17 five years before the events of Half-Life 2. Initially performing routine reconnaissance for the Resistance, Alyx is captured along with her father by the Combine after he ...

  8. Half-Life 2: Episode Two - Wikipedia

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    Half-Life 2: Episode Two is a 2007 first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve.Following Episode One (2006), it is the second of two shorter episodic games that continue the story of Half-Life 2 (2004).

  9. Half-Life: Alyx - Wikipedia

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    Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux , with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets . Players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine before the events of Half-Life 2 .