Half-Life 2 News

New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooter

Half-Life 2 is a stone-cold classic. The Valve shooter that introduced City 17, Alyx Vance, and the iconic gravity gun still feels fresh and modern almost 20 years later, and is well worth your time, especially as we wait - and wait - for Half-Life 3. But if there's one thing I would change about HL2, it's the gunplay. Armed with his trusty crowbar and a slew of great-looking, imaginative weapons (the red-hot-rebar-firing crossbow will always be a favorite), Gordon Freeman nevertheless feels a bit rigid, a bit static. Now, a new mod for Half-Life 2 VR transforms gunplay in the Steam classic, making the entire FPS feel much more alive.

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Half-Life 2 RTX to remaster "perfect image" you have of the original

A new Half-Life 2 RTX interview with the team behind the overhaul to the classic Valve FPS is here, as the developers dive into how they're aiming to change up the iconic game while staying true to what makes it so special.

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The week that changed PC gaming forever

People were excited in 2004. The most anticipated PC game there had ever been was on its way. Half-Life 2’s predecessor had shaken up the game industry to a degree that even the last 25 years of hyperbole in the game press hasn’t quite got across. It was like someone had just flipped a switch: one minute there were only Doom clones and stifled yawns, the next, everyone was doing set-pieces, real-time storytelling, and turrets. Valve’s FPS was so good that we were even happy to play the bad impressions of it...
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Half-Life 2 RTX is real, beautiful, and coming soon

Half-Life 2 RTX is on the way, and it's already evoking the same feelings of awe I had simply looking at the now-classic Valve FPS game almost 20 years ago. Featuring ray tracing, modernized assets, and more, this is the closest we'll likely ever get to a full Half-Life 2 remake.

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Half-Life 2 getting a modern makeover with Ray Tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex and RTX IO

Half-Life 2 is getting some revamped visuals thanks to modders using Nvidia's RTX Remix.

The RTX Community Project is remastering the title, dubbed Half-Life 2 RTX, and it's in development with four of Half-Life 2's top mod teams.

Using RTX Remix, Half-Life 2 RTX will feature full ray tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex, and RTX IO in a similar vein to Portal, which was given the RTX treatment last year.