Crikey, Half-Life 2 just turned 20 this week, but despite that, and even thanks to that, it's just hit a new concurrent player count peak.
]]>Two decades on from the release of Half-Life 2, Valve has shown off some of what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have looked like.
]]>Half-Life 2 is getting some revamped visuals thanks to modders using Nvidia's RTX Remix.
]]>The Xbox 360 first launched in 2005, and if you were fortunate enough to not encounter the ‘Red Ring of Death’ that the earlier consoles suffered from, then you were set for a good few years of gaming.
]]>The best story-based games are ageless. While gameplay can become clunky with the passing of time, an enthralling narrative is just as gripping whether it came out in 2004 or 2024.
]]>A whole bunch of Valve assets have leaked, as well as some cut content for classics like Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2.
]]>Footage of Arkane's Half-Life spin-off, Ravenholm, has been posted online by Noclip, the YouTube channel known for producing some really great documentaries on games.
]]>A Half-Life 2 mod has managed to bring back Star Fox voice actor Estelle Ellis, who played Krystal in Star Fox Adventures, and hasn't done any acting since 2005.
]]>Valve's Gabe Newell is going to launch a garden gnome into space for charity.
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]]>One modder has used Half-Life: Alyx's Source 2 engine to bring to life the moment Gordon Freeman enters into the City 17 courtyard at the start of Half-Life 2.
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]]>Valve has explained why we never got Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
]]>In a recent interview, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said, "we're way closer to The Matrix than people realize."
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]]>With just three weeks to go until launch, a batch of brand new Half-Life Alyx gameplay videos have surfaced online, featuring hostile drones, terrifying Headcrabs, and, of course, loads of pew-pew bang-bang guns.
]]>Black Mesa, the long-in-development reimagining of Half-Life 1 from indie team Crowbar Collective, will launch on Steam next week.
]]>Developers from Valve, Techland, Arkane and more breakdown the true appeal of a genre classic.
]]>You can now play each game in the Half-Life series free.
]]>Given the recent announcement of Half Life: Alyx, this revamped Half Life mod couldn't have come at a better time.
]]>Half-Life 2 NPCs can blink again.
]]>It’s been a wild year for VG247, so to celebrate we’re going to be republishing some of our favourite work published in 2018 – opinion pieces, features, and interviews, that we’ve enjoyed writing and reading, and which we believe showcase some of our best work. Enjoy!
Video games keep getting better looking, but why are we not seeing as many advances with physics? was first published on July 2, 2018.
If you ever played Max Payne 2, you probably remember your first kill. A dude rushes through a door and you swan dive before filling him with lead in slow-motion, the physically simulated bullets thudding against a body that reacts to every shot.
]]>New titles have been added to the Xbox One X enhanced backward compatibility library, and it will please many a Valve fan.
]]>Have you ever wondered what Half-Life 2's City 17 would look like in an atlas? Now you can find out!
]]>If you thought Valve turning game submissions over to fans was a big deal, buckle up.
]]>A project which combines content from the cancelled Half-Life 2: Episode 3 has been released in the wake of Marc Laidlaw's "Epistle 3" posted last week.
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]]>Praise Modders! A group of folks have restored VR code for Half-Life 2 (HLVR) in order to make it playable on Oculus and HTC Vive.
]]>Chet Faliszek has left Valve after devoting 12 years to the company.
]]>Half-life 3 does not exist and has never existed. A depressing harvest from the latest crop of rumours.
]]>Xbox One users can now play Half-Life 2 thanks to backwards compatibility.
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]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>While we collectively wait for Half-Life 3 to happen, let's continue the story of Opposing Force.
]]>Prospekt is a Half-Life 2 game which continues the story of the Gearbox Software-developed Opposing Force, and it is now available for pre-order on Steam.
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]]>Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of Half-Life 2.
]]>You probably already saw this Half-Life 2 and Hotline Miami mashup yesterday. If you have, just pretend you never saw this. Those who missed it, head below.
]]>Amazon Game Studios is developing an "ambitious new PC game project" according to a recent job listing posted on Gamasutra.
]]>Half-Life 2: Update will be available tomorrow, and thanks to the modding community, those who own the vanilla version of the game can apply a visual update to the 2004 title.
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]]>Have you ever wondered how would some of the levels in games from the Xbox 360 and PS3 era look if we have infinite hardware power? Well, wonder no more, someone has recreated them in HD, the way they deserve to look.
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]]>UK comedy heroes Paul and Barry Chuckle are in Half-Life mod Black Mesa.
]]>Those of us who used to play old versions of Counter-Strike back when it was the only competitive shooter on offer, will surely remember hearing about, or even playing the cyberpunk-themed mod, NeoTokyo. The mod was released way back in 2008 but has only now been added to Steam.
]]>Following Portal, Valve's classic shooter Half-Life 2 is now available on Nvidia's Shield.
]]>Half-Life: The Fall Down of Evolution is a fan film that tells the events of the Combine's seven-hour invasion of Earth. A pair of teaser trailers have been released to whet your appetite.
]]>Half-Life 2's City 17 has been remodelled in Unreal Engine by a gamer, who has started posting images of his work online.
]]>Noticed some weird happenings in your Steam Library today? Some users have reported a strange error where the game labelled "Team Fortress 2" is actually Left 4 Dead, and vice versa. The issue only seems to apply to Valve-developed games, and doesn't seem to cause any major problems, but Valve has suggested a pretty simple fix which may resolve it for you.
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]]>Valve has issued a PSA pointing out that updates to Half-life 2, Episode One, Episode Two and Lost Coast today are part of its ongoing efforts to add Steampipe support to all Source games. This isn't an ARG, just Steampipe," the developer said on Twitter. Please stop screaming "Half-life 3" at our inboxes.
]]>Half-life 2 received a whopping 3.7GB update on Steam today, leading to much furious speculation that Valve was beginning some sort of campaign leading up to the launch of Half-life 3, as when a bunch of mysterious indie updates turned out to be a Portal ARG. But according to those who've poked around in the game's code, it's just a language pack adding Korean, Portuguese and Thai localisations. Settle, petal.
]]>The opt-in beta version of Half-life 2 already supports your shiny new Oculus Rift headset.
]]>Much-praised Half-Life 2 mod Minerva, which earned its creator a job at Valve, is now available directly through Steam.
]]>Half-Life 2 was modded to support VR tracking headset Oculus Rift a while ago - check out the first gameplay video here - but now Oculus developer Nathan Andrews has got the tech working on what many to believe to be the game's finest hour, the city of Ravenholm.
]]>Half-Life 2 has been modded to support head tracking control in to prepare for the launch of Oculus Rift, the Kickstarter-funded headset device backed by Valve, id Software and Hawken developer Adhesive Games. The modders have posted a video of the game's head tracking in action.
]]>Purported shots of a canceled Half Life 2 episode called Return to Ravenholm have been posted over on ValveTime. The alleged screenshots show off a collaborative effort between Valve and Arkane Studios. Half Life designer Marc Laidlaw confirmed back in January 2012 that the episode was in the works at one time, and despite some "cool stuff" having been created, it was canceled due to the headcrab and zombie contents being "pretty much played out," and it taking place "sometime before the end of Episode 2." Go have a look at the shots for yourself through the link.
]]>Jurassic Life is a Half-Life 2 mod that has been in development for over six years, but the crew behind it have released some gameplay footage that is sure to get fans of Jurassic Park excited with anticipation. It sees areas from the film lovingly re-created, and also includes a human fighting off dinosaurs with a SPAS-12 shotgun. It's the stuff of dreams/lawsuits. Watch it below.
]]>Half-Life 2 fans who have always wanted to use Gordon Freeman's gravity gun for real can part-way realise their dream next year when NECA - the same company who made a life-size replica of the Portal gun - starts selling them. See photos of the replica below.
]]>Microsoft has updated its Xbox Live content schedule, and the releases kick off today with the Mass Effect 3: Firefight Pack, a Gold-exclusive Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning DLC sale, a sale on Bejeweled 3, and The Orange Box: Half Life 2 releases for the Games on Demand Service.
]]>Viktor Antonov, the much-lauded designer behind Half-Life 2's City 17, jumped ship when Valve grew too large and stopped making the kinds of games he's keen on.
]]>ValveTime has posted what it claims are leaked shots of Half Life 2: Episode 3 concept art on its Facebook page. According to the claim: "For the avoidance of doubt, I just want to stress that we absolutely would not release these pictures if we didn't know for a fact they were real. They absolutely are," said a team member on the Steam forums. "Please just enjoy them as they are, and try not to look for conspiracies that aren't there. I mean, it's not like we're doing it to attract traffic to our site. We know our server can't cope with the load so we don't want massive influxes of traffic like this. You may have noticed we've been offline since." Valve has yet to respond to the claim. Hit up the link for a look.
]]>This weekend's action to protest Valve's lack of communication over Half-life 3 was something of a blow out.
]]>The Steam group “A Call for Communication”, which currently boasts 29,617 members, will be playing Half-Life 2 simultaneously on Saturday, February 4, from 11:00am until 11:30am PST in order to try and get Valve to announce anything pertaining to Half-Life Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 - if either exists. "Instead of focusing efforts in a negative and disrespectful way, we have decided to gain Valve’s attention by delivering a basic message: Your oldest and longest running fanbase would like better communication," reads the message from the group. Earlier this month, the group had over 10,000 members join its ranks, and now that the number is pushing the 30,000 mark, hopefully Valve will take notice. Thanks, Ripten. [pic]
]]>Valve's cross-title promotional activities continue, this time in Renegade Ops, the mad vehicle combat extravaganza from Just Cause 2 developer Avalanche.
]]>Axel Gembe, the person who managed to hack into Valve's computer network and download the source code for Half-Life 2, has said he's "very sorry" for causing the situation.
]]>Valve staffers have refused to comment on whether Half-life 2: Episode 3 will ever be released.
]]>Update: The plot thickens. Check out this post from back in March on the TF2 blog. Look at the comic cover.
Now go look at this. (thanks, Rob)
Original: The E3 2010 rumor mill is thicker with muck than we've seen it in years, but that won't stop us from posting stuff just in case it's real.
Case in point: The Half-Life related June 14 promotional image shown above that we've converted into negative format for your consideration.
]]>Valve's knocking 30 percent off the regular price of Half-Life 2 on Steam to celebrate it hitting Mac.
EVE Online: Tyranis is also available for cross-platform play now as well.
]]>Update: Only one of the greatest games of all time? Feh. Who even cares? Fortunately, Valve's decided to throw in Episodes One and Two as well - as confirmed by Shacknews.
Original article: Valve has announced that Half-Life 2 will arrive on Steam for Mac tomorrow via a video.
It's posted below the break.
Good news for Mac'ers then - no price announcement yet, and no word if both episodes are included.
Guess we'll find out tomorrow.
]]>Robert Culp, the actor who played the antagonist Wallace Breen in Half Life 2, has died at the age of 79.
]]>Game Informer's apparently saying that anyone praying to see Half Life 2: Episode Three this year may want to start your crying: it ain't happening.
]]>Update: Microsoft's just given VG247 a no comment on it.
A rep said: "Microsoft does not comment on rumour or speculation." Original Story: Take this with enough salt to pay a Roman legion for half a year, but Gossip Gamers has posted a video of what's purportedly Half-Life 2 being played on Natal.
]]>Game Informer celebrated passing 200 issues recently, so to celebrate, they compiled a list of 200 games, which they think are the best games of all time.
The Legend of Zelda for the NES was the winner, followed then by Super Mario Bros, Tetris, Grand Theft Auto III and Half Life 2.
We're absolutely sickened though that Metal Gear Solid 3 is near all the way the bottom though at 191. Sickened.
Find the top ten below, with the full 200 at Nintendo Everything.
]]>An official trailer of Black Mesa's been released, showing off the Half-Life 2 mod in stunning light. There'll be every reason to go back. Watch it after the break.
No date as yet. Get more info from the project's official site.
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