Many happy returns
When you’ve been around for 30 years, you see plenty of comebacks. Which is why, in hindsight, you should never say never. In E389’s Time Extend, we declared that Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door was ‘a hilariously dark joke that Nintendo will never tell again’. Mere days later… well, you know the rest. Or maybe we managed to reverse manifest it. In which case, perhaps it’s time we revisited Half-Life 2 and explained why Valve is absolutely, definitely, 100 per cent done with Gordon Freeman.