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

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
News Foreseen Consequences.

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
news Get Your Free TVs!

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
News Almost...

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

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

Half-Life 3: The complete history of the greatest game never made
By Rick Lane published
White Whale The rumours, rhetoric, and running out of hope.

The inevitable Half-Life 2 RTX remix is being made without Valve
By Dave James published
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.

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

Half-Life 2 review
By Jim Rossignol published
Gravity Fun PC Gamer's original 2004 review of Half-Life 2.

The best Half-Life 2 mods: 20th anniversary edition
By Dominic Tarason published
Occupied A fistful of mods for Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, for Free Men and Women of all stripes.

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

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
News String theory.

Great moments in PC gaming: That time Valve released three new games on the same day
By Christopher Livingston published
Halfortal 2 The Orange Box was a true anomaly.

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
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."

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
news Happy birthday, Half-Life!

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

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
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."

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

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

Team Fortress 2's latest silly business sees the game crashing because it thought players were Gordon Freeman
By Elie Gould published
News Gordon is the 10th class, spread the word.

Dev reveals that Half-Life could've been called 'Bent', 'Screwed', 'Trash', 'CrYsis', and my personal favourite, 'Dirt'
By Harvey Randall published
News "Fallout" was in the running too, which would've been very confusing.

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
News Wake up and smell the jarate.

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
news Ricochet finally gets the respect it deserves.

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
News What is "Project White Sands"?

Half-Life 2 mod lets you finally experience the game as it was meant to be played: in Lego form
By Joshua Wolens published
News That Gordon's a real blockhead.

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
News Eerily monologues. Refuses to elaborate. Leaves.

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