Half-Life 2 News

Half-Life 2 is about to turn 20 years old. That's two decades, over 7,000 days, and countless FPS games emulating Valve's work. We're still waiting on Half-Life 3, and while recent rumors point to the sequel being as real as it ever has been, it looks like something big may be in store for Gordon Freeman's second adventure. A new update bears a striking resemblance to one Valve dropped for the original Half-Life right before that game's huge free update last year, so HL2 might be getting a similar overhaul.

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Half-Life 2 coming to the big screen in the worst way imaginable

Half-Life 2's vehicle levels suck, and it's time we all admit it

Half Life 2 RTX won't use AI textures, devs are crafting "every pixel"

Half-Life 2 is a beloved FPS that absolutely does not need a film or TV adaptation. Though games like Halo, Fallout, The Last of Us, and even League of Legends have had varying levels of success moving from game to screen, Half-Life 2 doesn't have the kind of story that makes sense for cinema. As it turns out, that doesn't matter at all, as Valve's 2004 classic may now be taking a roundabout path to the big screen through a Michael Bay-directed version of the viral Skibidi Toilet web series, a wildly successful internet hit created and featuring characters from Half-Life 2.

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Half-Life 2's vehicle levels suck, and it's time we all admit it

Half Life 2 RTX won't use AI textures, devs are crafting "every pixel"

Forgotten Half-Life 2 mod from 2007 suddenly has 1,700% more players

Thankfully, in 2024, we're broadly all enlightened enough to recognize Half-Life 2 as a genre-defining modern FPS. Generally, in the decades since its release, its entirely deserved status as one of the greatest games of all time (not to mention one of the most influential) has arguably obscured some critical judgment of Valve's creation.

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Half Life 2 RTX won't use AI textures, devs are crafting "every pixel"

Forgotten Half-Life 2 mod from 2007 suddenly has 1,700% more players

Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remake

Louis Gossett Jr., who made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and had a prolific, successful career across film, television and stage - as well as voicing the friendly Vortigaunt aliens in Half-Life 2 and its follow-up Episode One - has died.

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