Half-Life 2 News

Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes

s part of Valve's celebration of Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, the studio has announced that it will release an updated and expanded version of Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar, a superb art book that covers the development of the legendary first person shooter...
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November 16, 2024 Update

Fixed a crash that could occur in some languages when starting a new chapter.
UI - Fixed some weapon icon alignment issues at various resolutions.
Workshop - Fixed campaigns set to expand on Episode One loading some Episode Two content.
Workshop - Always show the My Uploads page, even if not in developer mode.
Workshop - Various UI adjustments and improvements.

Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

s part of Valve's celebration of Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, the studio has released 17 minutes of early development footage for the game that was long thought lost. The demo shows a version of Half-Life 2 partway between HL1 and the final release⁠—it's familiar, yet also surreally, intriguingly different...
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Fancy a look at Half-Life 2: Episode 3? For Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve shares a jam-packed documentary showing some of the infamous episode that never was

Two decades on from the release of Half-Life 2, Valve has shown off some of what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have looked like.

Half-Life 2's third DLC episode was never finished because Gabe Newell and company didn't just want to finish the Half-Life 2 story arc, but to do something big and innovative with the game design, and as Newell put it in a new documentary, he was "stumped."..
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