A Valve designer reveals the origins of Half Life 2: Episode Two's Gnome Chompski prop and the Little Rocket Man achievement.

The familiar gnome, Gnome Chompski, appeared first in Half-Life 2: Episode 2 where he could be escorted to the rocket at the White Forest Base for a surprise achievement. Similar incentives to ...

Valve's Gabe Newell, with an assist from Weta Workshop, sent the garden gnome to space aboard an Electron booster on Thursday.

You might recognize this gnome. This gnome was manufactured with support from Weta Workshop, created in the shape of Half-Life gaming icon Gnome Chompski. This piece of art is 150 mm of titanium ...

Valve's Gabe Newell is launching a garden gnome into space for a children's charity. You may have completed the difficult task of launching Gnome Chompski the garden gnome into space in Half-Life ...

After spending a part of the spring recording new material at Los Angeles' Pink Duck Studios, which is owned by Queens of the Stone Age's Josh Homme, local rock act Mr. Gnome – Nicole ...

Just over 13 years after release, Half-Life 2: Episode 2 has got a new achievement that you won't have to expend any effort in unlocking. Why? Because Valve chief Gabe Newell has successfully ...

Chardon-based indie-rock act Mr. Gnome may have recorded its new sophomore album, “Heave Yer Skeleton,” at Josh Homme’s Los Angeles recording studio, but it was the bells and whis… ...

Gabe Newell and Valve made a real life Gnome Chompskin, and just like Gordon did in Half-Life 2, he plans to launch it into space.