Half-Life 2 News

Is there any other game series where fan-made content feels as legitimate a part of the fiction as Half-Life? Perhaps the runaway success of Black Mesa has skewed my thoughts on this, but I've found myself paying a lot more attention to how the community is playing with the Half-Life story of late. On that note, I'm particularly intrigued by Through The City, which pitches itself as a direct sequel to Half-Life: Opposing Force, set during the events of Half-Life 2...
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Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm is one of the most memorable locations in Valve’s masterful FPS sequel. The zombie-ridden mining town, watched over by the charismatic yet enigmatic Father Grigori, could easily be the setting of an entire game—and almost was—had Arkane Studios’ ambitious plans for its own Half-Life 2 episode bore fruit...
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Two years ago, game documentary channel Noclip produced a fascinating look at Ravenholm, a canceled Half-Life spin-off that was in development at Arkane before the studio made Dishonored. That documentary included some footage of the canceled game along with interviews with multiple developers at Arkane. Today Noclip has published a much longer look at Ravenholm: the full hour of footage it captured in 2020...
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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.

Half-Life 2 is a pretty good game, sure, but the most common criticism about the Valve developed title is that there just aren't enough hot blue foxes in the game, which is absolutely the truth. Thankfully, in 2017, a mod was released that replaces Alyx Vance with probably the most famous blue fox, Krystal, though only her model. Now though, modder Gagnetar is working on an update to the mod that has somehow managed to bring Estelle Ellis out of retirement, and provide a complete rework of Alyx's lines.

Over on the official fan site dedicated to the popular fox, Krystal Archive, a post was shared detailing the mod. "For that extra bit of polish, Gagnetar even took the trouble to rewrite some of the lines to fit better with Krystal as a character in the game world, rather than simply doing a word-for-word recreation," reads the post.

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An update has been released for Half-Life 2, Episode One, Episode Two, and Lost Coast.

- Updated localization strings and captions