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You can now play Half-Life on your watch

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You can now play Half-Life on your watch
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Valve's classic first-person-shooter Half-Life is, unbelievably, playable on Android Wear.

The game is played using on-screen virtual buttons, but the tiny 1.65-inch screen does make it difficult to control.

All it takes is little tweaking under the bonnet with the SDLash app, which emulates Half-Life's original engine, Goldsource.

Performance is variable, however, with the frame rate ranging between 2 and 30 FPS on an LG G Watch, according to YouTuber Dave Bennett.

For now, this seems to be the only solution to the everlasting problem that is the lack of portable original Half-Life.
Back in 2013, a group of enthusiast developers said they were bringing the original game to mobile, but we've heard nothing of the project since.

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Oscar Dayus
Oscar Dayus
Oscar grew up playing games in the 90s, and as such can't help but jump on any sort of moving platform. He hasn't yet perfected the art of double-jumping in real life, though, so has now turned to writing instead.