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Steam News · May 24

The design lead of Half-Life's biggest competitor says that its publisher was so 'pissed off' by the time the game launched that it didn't bother testing it properly: 'We got trashed in the press because of bugs'

Back in the halcyon days of 1998, Ritual Entertainment's Sin was shaping up to be the hottest shooter released that year. An over-the-top, hyper-violent gunfest with the backing of John Romero and a dash of what, at the time, qualified as sex appeal, Sin seemed destined to be the shooter on everyone's hard-drive by the end of the year... Read more.

Steam News · Aug 1, 2023

Sin: Reloaded 'isn't dead' but sure sounds like it's on ice

Developer Nightdive Studios has un-announced SiN: Reloaded, a remastered version of classic FPS SiN that was first announced in 2020 for a 2021 release. The original game was developed by Ritual Entertainment and released in 1998, with Nightdive acquiring the rights in 2020 and re-releasing it with its expansion as SiN Gold... Read more.

Steam News · Apr 5, 2022

Remembering SiN, the last shooter of a world before Half-Life

On November 19, 1998, Sierra released Half-Life. In the time it took to install 300MB of exquisitely poised shooter off its CD-ROM, everything from the genre prior became part of a bygone era. And perhaps the unluckiest of the lot was Ritual’s SiN, which released just ten days before it... Read more.

Steam News · Mar 18, 2020

SiN: Gold update is now available!

Hello everyone! A new update for SiN is available now! SiN has now become SiN: Gold and comes with the following changes and enhancements: Features Added 2015's "Wages of SiN" expansion Added modernized Steam master server support Added and restored editing SDK Added support for additional 16:9 video resolutions Restored/uncensored various original game assets General Improvements Optimizations to...

Steam News · Jan 8, 2015

Have You Played Sin?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Released on October 31st 1998, less than two weeks before the first Half-Life, Sin is an odd footnote in the first-person shooter s growth from carefree, violent romp towards the carefree, violent romps with scripted story bits they are today.

Steam News · Jan 9, 2013

Timey Wimey: Lots Of Footage Of The Half-Life Alpha

Way back in time, when the world was in 8-bit and we all paid for our cholera gruel with children s teeth, Valve were working on Half-Life. It wasn t very good, and Valve took the decision to rewrite most of the game. Somewhere in the multiverse there s a universe where that version of Half-Life was released. The first difference between universes is that the 1997 alpha wasn&#821...