[kupoartist]

Just thought I'd post this awesome concept art that emerged recently: It features a crowbar holding Gordon struggling in the sewers with one of those Barnacle creatures from the first game.
https://www.halflife2.net/news//1093959529_Barnacle.jpg

Now, I wish I could draw like that ^^

Actually, it's all part of some very weird "test" that valve are doing for their fans. On the media page of the offical site, clicking the 6th image (of the City 17 Citadel - you'll know which one, because the spooky G-Man will appear on mouseover) brings up a login box to which the login/pass is nova/prospekt. You then get a window with a box. Looking at the html code of this page, you see an ascii art of Alyx Vance (Gordon's sidekick for HL2), a bird and the partial url "secret/secondtest/whatsmyname.jpg". Put after the www.half-life2.com url, you get a picture of the barnacle. So you enter "barnacle" into the box and get the above pic. More is expected to come... Big games beginning with "H" seem to have this thing with confusing their fans.... www.ilovebees.com ....