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In 2026, the Combine OverWiki celebrates twenty years of operation. Happy 20th Birthday!

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Did you know...

...that Citizens playing the video game Hackman in the Manhack Arcade were unknowingly actually killing other Citizens with Manhacks?
...that the actor voicing the G-Man in the Italian version of Half-Life 2 is the actor voicing the Cigarette-Smoking Man in the Italian version of the TV series The X-Files?
...that the Garden Gnome Achievement was based on a developer in-joke about carrying a baby doll in a crate?
...that you can donate one or all of your vital organs to the Aperture Science self esteem fund for girls? It's true!
...that Xen is comprised of floating islands?
...that security cards were originally to be used around Black Mesa?
...that the Combine Overwatch can directly give orders to and basically control its soldiers via extensive mechanical brain and body modifications?
...that the Valve introductory logo was at some point to be a short, real-time cinematic?
...that the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grill "emancipates" dental fillings, crowns, tooth enamel, and teeth?

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