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More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track

By Ted Litchfield published 16 November 24

news Not bad for a 20-year-old game.

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Half-Life's 25th anniversary celebrations have caused a resonance cascade in its Steam player-count, surging to a new all-time high over the weekend

By Rick Lane published 20 November 23

News Foreseen Consequences.

News

Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

By Ted Litchfield published 16 November 24

news Get Your Free TVs!

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This Half-Life 2 themed RTX 4080 Super almost makes up for the fact we're about to hit the game's 20th anniversary and there's still no Half-Life 3 in sight

By Jacob Ridley published 14 November 24

News Almost...

News

Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'

By Christopher Livingston published 16 November 24

News Newell wants Valve to "capitalize on innovation and opportunities to build game experiences that haven't been involved previously."

News

20 years after Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3 remains the stuff of occult whisperings: Here's every rumor we've heard about the sequel that may or may not exist

By Andy Chalk last updated 16 November 24

Half-Lies A look back at 20 years of not playing the most essential sequel in videogame history.

Half-Lies

Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made

By Rick Lane published 3 November 23

White Whale The rumours, rhetoric, and running out of hope.

White Whale

The inevitable Half-Life 2 RTX remix is being made without Valve

By Dave James published 22 August 23

News Nvidia's calling it "the most comprehensive graphical remaster of Half-Life 2" and is working with the modding community to make it happen.

News

Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam

By Andy Chalk published 15 November 24

news The surprise update includes a full commentary track for the base game, significant graphical and gameplay updates, and a whole lot more.

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Half-Life 2 review

By Jim Rossignol published 20 November 24

Gravity Fun PC Gamer's original 2004 review of Half-Life 2.

Gravity Fun

The best Half-Life 2 mods: 20th anniversary edition

By Dominic Tarason published 21 November 24

Occupied A fistful of mods for Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, for Free Men and Women of all stripes.

Occupied

The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is out now and well worth a go… if your graphics card can take it

By Jacob Ridley published 18 March 25

News Two levels are available to play in Half-Life RTX right now: Ravenholm and Nova Prospekt.

News

Data strings in the latest Counter-Strike 2 update hint at two new Valve games, and one of them might just be Half-Life related

By Rick Lane published 9 February 24

News String theory.

News

Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day

By Christopher Livingston published 26 May 24

Halfortal 2 The Orange Box was a true anomaly.

Halfortal 2

Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes

By Ted Litchfield published 16 November 24

news It'll have concept art for Episode One and Two, as well as "ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be."

news

Valve just made Half-Life free and put out a massive update with cut content and an hour-long 'making of' documentary

By Andy Chalk published 17 November 23

news Happy birthday, Half-Life!

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If you missed it over the holidays, this noir Half-Life 2 mod turns you into a hardboiled detective in Prohibition-era Chicago

By Christopher Livingston published 9 January 25

News The Burton Equation is full of fedoras, Tommy guns, and, oh yeah, time travel.

News

Early plans for Half-Life 2 sound wild, including visits to cities like Chicago and LA, several Combine bases, and a sequence where a plane crashed into a skyrise that was cut after 9/11

By Jody Macgregor published 20 November 24

News "You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. And then, go to like three other cities."

News

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

By Tyler Wilde published 16 November 24

news Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

news

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage

By Tyler Wilde published 16 November 24

news Also: "hoppy blobs." Here's our best glimpse at the cancelled Episode 3 yet.

news

Team Fortress 2's latest silly business sees the game crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman

By Elie Gould published 23 April 24

News Gordon is the 10th class, spread the word.

News

Dev reveals that Half-Life could've been called 'Bent', 'Screwed', 'Trash', 'CrYsis', and my personal favourite, 'Dirt'

By Harvey Randall published 8 November 23

News "Fallout" was in the running too, which would've been very confusing.

News

A mod that lets you play Half-Life 2 multiplayer as the mercs from Team Fortress 2 is coming to Steam

By Jody Macgregor published 29 May 25

News Wake up and smell the jarate.

News

Valve fans come together to smash the Steam concurrents record for the studio's least-popular game: 'We all know Ricochet is the best Valve game ever made'

By Tyler Wilde published 1 April 25

news Ricochet finally gets the respect it deserves.

news

A codenamed Valve project found in a voice actor's résumé has Half-Life fans putting on the clown makeup yet again

By Jody Macgregor published 5 August 24

News What is "Project White Sands"?

News

Half-Life 2 mod lets you finally experience the game as it was meant to be played: in Lego form

By Joshua Wolens published 11 July 23

News That Gordon's a real blockhead.

News

G-Man's voice actor rings in the new year by dropping a cryptic tweet grenade promising 'unexpected surprises' into the starving Half-Life 3 fanbase

By Harvey Randall published 2 January 25

News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

News

Valve's Steam page currently lists a second mystery game alongside Deadlock, sending Half-Life 3 theorists into another frenzy of speculation

By Rick Lane published 12 January 25

News But before you get too excited, it could just be gift cards.

News

Industria 2 is 'a narrative FPS to its core,' but its first-ever trailer is giving me real Half-Life 2 vibes

By Andy Chalk published 22 March 24

news We don't go to Ravenholm, so what the hell are we doing here?

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Valve stiffed speedrunners by adding an invisible wall in its Half-Life 2 tuneup, so now it's fixed the fix and says 'enjoy'

By Rich Stanton published 30 November 24

news Fetch my pipe and gravity gun.

news
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