Half-Life 2 News

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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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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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

Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off

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

Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off

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