I’ve always viewed Half Life, and it’s sequel as the much anticipated Citizen Kane of video games. It’s complex mixture of interactive entertainment and artistic expressionism are everything video games can, and should be. It’s one of those properties that should never become a movie, like the videogame version of Watchmen. Wait, scratch that last part.

There are exceptions to every rule however, and Marc Spitoni’s teaser trailer for “I am the Freeman” is enough to change my tune. Spitoni, who works for WETA, the fine folks who did much of the special effects for the Lord of the Rings movies and District 9. Yep, it’s that good.

“I’ve always been in love with the PC game ‘Half-Life,’ so I decided to work out a project that would have been a trailer for a hypothetic feature film of Half-life,” Spitoni said of the project. ” The whole thing is pretty faithful to the game and based on HL2.”

“I am the Freeman” gives hope to the fact that someone could do a Half-Life movie right, but they won’t. Spitoni points out on his website that he won’t be making a full movie, just a longer trailer. Let’s just hope Valve is watching.

It’s all about perspective. Sure, Valve’s upcoming, highly anticipated zombie shooter Left 4 Dead won’t make its targeted summer release, but at least the game is “mostly finished.”

Speaking to Shacknews this week, Valve’s head of marketing Doug Lombardi talked about the status of the apocalyptic thriller.

“So the game is pretty much playable all the way through right now. As we’ve done with most of our games, we get to a point where it’s playable all the way through. There are some [minor] issues that we need to work on, and we try to add more time to the schedule to have as many people as possible play the game, to make sure that it’s approachable to players of all skills,” he said.

Lombardi went on to detail what was next in the development process for the game, which puts players in the shoes of one of four humans in a zombie apocalypse and gives players the chance to take control of the living dead.

“We want to make sure that all the game that we’ve built gets played, not just be like, ‘Okay, it’s complete, let’s ship it,’” he said, while comparing the current status of the game to that of Half Life 2 which followed the same development pattern of being mostly finished in the spring and released in the fall. “We’re in a pretty similar state right now, with it being, what, early May, and we’re looking at the same time frame — November — for shipping.”

Electronic Arts annonuced Thursday that a software update for the PlayStation 3 version of The Orange Box is available via the PlayStation Network in North America.

The update includes the following fixes:

• Fixed a graphical issue whereby a player would have the explosion effect left on the end of their Rocket Launcher when attempting to Rocket Jump.
• Fixed a memory leak to improve single player stability.
• Fixed an issue whereby the players name would not appear on the Stats comparison screen.
• We have fixed an issue that would cause the vote tallies to disappear when you viewed the scoreboard between rounds.
• Fixed an online server issue.
• Fixed an issue that caused a crash when a player that wasn’t in Division 1 entered ‘Your Leaderboards.
• Fixed an issue with players not always being added to the ‘Players Met’ menu on the XMB.
• Fixed a bug where a player viewing a friend without an EA account would have an empty entry in the friend’s Leaderboard.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to connect to the EA servers if you had more than 30 friends.