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Half-Life
- Franchise
- Half-Life
- Released
- November 19, 1998
- Developer(s)
- Valve
- Publisher(s)
- Sierra Studios
- Genre(s)
- Shooter
- ESRB
- M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language
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