There's an Amelie-inspired achievement for picking up the gnome at the start of the game and bringing it all the way to the rocket at White Forest Base, an arduous task involving lots of item juggling and repeated cramming of the gnome into a crevice in Episode Two's muscle car. If you did not also receive the achievement 'Manufacturing Ascent', Newell has abandoned his plans to shoot Noam Chomsky into space.'įor those unfamiliar, the little garden gnome in question (named after the famed linguist and philosopher who, it seems, Newell isn't yeeting into orbit) first made an appearance in 2007's Half-Life 2: Episode Two. 'If you are reading this achievement, Gabe Newell has successfully launched Gnome Chompski into space. Billionaire Valve co-founder Gabe Newell teased a combination charity drive/rocket launch experiment/Half-Life gag involving a certain gnome a little while ago, but now a reference to the event has made its way into people's Steam pages.Ī new achievement called 'Gnome Alone' was added to all three games in question last night, and the description sums up exactly what's going on.
Is there something you think we should be reporting on? Email recently revived Half-Life series is celebrating its 22nd birthday today, and it just so happens to line up with a strange stunt involving achievements in Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Half-Life: Alyx, and even Left 4 Dead 2.
