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On November 23, 1999, GameSpot reported that 2015, Inc. was developing a Half-Life expansion pack to follow Half-Life: Opposing Force. 2015, Inc declined to comment. [1] On March 18, 2000, the Adrenaline Vault reported that the new expansion was named Half-Life: Hostile Takeover, and that it had appeared on retail product lists with a release date of late August. [2]
Valve's first game was Half-Life, a first-person shooter released in 1998. [2] It sold over nine million retail copies. [3] [4] Alongside Half-Life ' s launch, Valve released development tools to enable the player community to create content and mods. [5] The company then proceeded to hire the creators of popular mods such as Counter-Strike. [1]
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 ...
Warfare Incorporated was developed by Spiffcode and published by Handmark for Palm OS, Pocket PC, PDAs and Tapwave Zodiac in 2003. In 2008, it was ported to iOS devices. In July 2014 the game's source code and content got open-sourced with the BSD license under the name Hostile Takeover on GitHub. [2]
Gearbox has developed a total of six games in the Half-Life series: the expansion packs Opposing Force and Blue Shift; ports of Half-Life for Dreamcast (which included Blue Shift) and Half-Life for PlayStation 2 (which included Half-Life: Decay); they also did a large amount of work on both the retail release of Counter-Strike and the main ...
Hostile takeovers can cause a lot of disruption for the target company and its employees. It can lead to massive layoffs, as the acquirer looks to cut costs and boost profitability.
Half-Life is a first-person shooter that requires the player to perform combat tasks and puzzle solving to advance through the game. Unlike most first-person shooters at the time, which relied on cut-scene intermissions to detail their plotlines, Half-Life ' s story is told mostly using scripted sequences (bar one short cutscene), keeping the player in control of the first-person viewpoint.
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The building that Columbia University protesters seized early on Tuesday morning, Hamilton Hall, has a history of student takeovers over the decades.