Actor Louis Gossett Jr, who voiced Half-Life 2's vortigaunts, has died

ctor Louis Gossett Jr, who has appeared in dozens of films, television shows, and plays—as well as two videogames—died this week at 87, reports AP News...
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While the likes of Quake and Portal have proven to be impressive showcases for Nvidia RTX Remix, the task put before the Half-Life 2 RTX development team is on another level. Taking a moment away from the mod's development, Chris Workman, founder of Orbifold studios shared some insight on the levels of care and attention it takes to bring path tracing and more to a classic PC game.
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It may just be an off-shoot of the hugely popular Half-Life 2, but Age of Chivalry is enjoying an unbelievable resurgence of late, with thousands of players giving the RPG mod their time and attention over the last month like never before.
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Half-Life 2 never seems to leave the limelight, standing the test of time as one of the most iconic PC games ever. The 2004 sci-fi shooter sequel is still one of Steam's most top-rated entries, and its creative community of modders isn't showing any signs of slowing down either. One creator took it upon himself to craft a new Resident Evil 2 remake using Valve's Source engine, producing a standalone mod for HL2 that's almost too good to believe.
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20 years. It's almost 20 actual years since the release of Half-Life 2. We've had the Episodes. Half-Life Alyx is fantastic. But when it comes to a full-tilt, loose-end-tying mainline sequel - Half-Life 3 - we're still waiting, hoping, slowly fading away. Valve's superlative sci-fi shooter series may one day come back, but in the meantime, Gordon Freeman fans are doing a spectacular job of keeping Half-Life alive. Enter a new Half-Life 2 mod, so big and professionally made to call it a mod feels reductive. This is a proper, finished, fully playable pseudo spin-off to Half-Life 2, casting you as one of the FPS game's most memorable side characters, trapped in what is certainly the most terrifying place Valve has ever built. We're going back to Ravenholm.
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