The Terminal
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Terminal News & Media Syndicate |
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English |
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The Terminal is a newspaper issued by the Terminal News & Media Syndicate as recent as the period following the Combine's invasion of Earth.
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Overview[edit]
Half-Life 2[edit]
The Terminal appears in Half-Life 2 as a worn out newspaper model, among the many other junk models, named "garbage_newspaper001a.mdl". It is folded with another newspaper that has a title beginning with the word "Money". The front page shows a head shot of Dr. Breen and another indistinguishable photo. The back of the model shows the bottom of the front page, featuring the picture of a car (seemingly the car model car004a.mdl) on a road.
Half-Life: Alyx[edit]
The Terminal returns in Half-Life: Alyx in a similar fashion, the texture being much more defined and readable, with the slogan "The Final Word in News" on its rack. It contains articles published and covering the events just following the Seven Hour War, such as the Portal Storms still raging, Xen creatures continuing to run amok around the planet, the global stock market plunge, and a criticism piece on Dr. Breen for his involvement in the Black Mesa Incident as well as his taking advantage of the current crisis for his rise to power as the "Interim Administrator" of Earth. The car advertisement is now more legibly depicted, specifying the vehicle as a "RIGA SZ-912". The game also retroactively implies the "'Portal' Storm Continues" article previously seen in Half-Life 2 on a newspaper clipping pinned to a corkboard in Black Mesa East actually came from this issue of The Terminal.
Known staff reporters for the paper include Finsbury Bowes, Greg Ip, Helene Thompson, Lillian Abadi, and Sarah Monroe.
Behind the scenes[edit]
As they share the Source engine with Half-Life 2 and reuse several assets from it, several copies of The Terminal appear throughout Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.
Valve developer Chris Remo, who wrote all the columns that appeared on the paper in Half-Life: Alyx, included a small tribute to one of his favorite podcasts. The name "Davide Ransomen", which appears in an article about coups, is a reference to the host of the podcast Talking Politics, David Runciman.[1]
Trivia[edit]
In Half-Life: Alyx, http://theterminal.online is the affiliated internet address listed on the front page of The Terminal newspaper located in the top right corner.
Gallery[edit]
Newspaper model, front (Half-Life 2).
Newspaper model, back (Half-Life 2).
Full newspaper texture in Half-Life: Alyx.
Alternate dirty version of the paper with a circulating placeholder text taken from The Times.
Alternate version of newspaper texture from Deadlock.
Newspaper rack.
The "'Portal' Storm Continues" newspaper clipping seen in Black Mesa East.
List of appearances[edit]
- Half-Life 2 (First appearance)
- Half-Life: Alyx
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑
Tweet: "I snuck a tiny tribute to my favorite podcast, Talking Politics, into Half-Life: Alyx. The front page of The Terminal newspaper features an alter-ego of host David Runciman ("Davide Ransomen") talking about one of his favorite topics, coups." @chrisremo on Twitter (March 29, 2020)
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