I moved away from PC gaming completely around the time of the PS3 release. I was so far into Linux that I decided to ditch Windows altogether and just game sitting on the couch with the big screen using my PS3.

Now Steam for Linux/SteamOS is starting to become something. I installed it on my Ultrabook, browsed through the games and found out they actually ported Half-Life to Linux! Something I asked them to do years and years ago. Amazed by this discovery, I dug up my decade old copy and tried activating it on my newly created Steam account. Sadly this didn't work right away (already activated). So I opened a customer support ticket and the nice people at Valve actually reset a very old Steam account that I totally forgot about. It was on a handle that I used back in the day to play the original Counterstrike. That was when they first started with Steam, which was the most annoying thing ever invented :-)

But then I started playing the original Half-Life again after more then 10 years and I got to say it still holds up (or is that the nostalgia?). Played through the entire campaign in one sitting. What a game.