Ever since a purported employee of Valve wore a finding convoluted hints about Half-Life 3 in the video Valve made when Wheatley from Portal 2 was nominated for a "Character Of The Year" VGA from Spike.

For science.

Did you like "Beyond Black Mesa", the eleven minute Half-Life short film made on a budget of $1,200 by some dedicated fans.

[via]It's that time of the week where we post a mixed bag of intriguing costumes we spotted recently.

Finally, a cause I can fully get behind.

Usually when I hear the words "fan film" I start breaking out in dry sweats throw up blood and usually piddle a little bit, but things were significantly different today after watching this Half-Life inspired fan film, Beyond Black Mesa.

Last year we posted a trailer for the awesome Half Life 2 mod, "Dino D-Day", in which you play an Allied soldier fighting against dinosaurs resurrected and trained by Nazis.

We've been following Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar's work at UPenn's GRASP Lab for awhile, mostly so we can be cursed to know the exact nature of our death, like a cyclops.

Last month we wrote about the engineers of the GRASP Lab at UPenn who built a quadrotor helicopter that looked like the manhacks in Half-Life 2.