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  "path": "/half-life-alyx-is-convincing-me-i-dont-have-the-knees-for-vr-gaming-or-perhaps-i-should-stop-cowering-behind-cars-quite-so-often",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T16:21:09.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "Virtual Reality",
    "Action Adventure",
    "Half-Life: Alyx",
    "Horror",
    "Valve",
    "Valve Corporation",
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  "textContent": "I know I don't have the best knees. My body informed me of this during a drunken dance-off in a Leeds night club when one of them popped out of place and tore a line through the back of my knee cap. It told me again a year later when I did the same thing playing frisbee. And a third time when I slipped on some grass while walking Jeremy Peel's dog on a rainy day. Put kindly, they're shoddy.\n\nYet, I'm developing a whole new appreciation for their shoddiness while playing through Half-Life: Alyx, Valve's VR spin on City 17.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Half-Life: Alyx is convincing me I don't have the knees for VR gaming, or perhaps I should stop cowering behind cars quite so often"
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