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Half-Life 2 peaks at 64k players


Half-Life 2 has peaked at 64,085 concurrent players on 17 November 2024 which is 20 years after release.
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Despite being a 20 year old single-player game, Half-Life 2 just hit an all-time high concurrent player count thanks to that anniversary update


Crikey, Half-Life 2 just turned 20 this week, but despite that, and even thanks to that, it's just hit a new concurrent player count peak.

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More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track




Taking a look at SteamDB, the hullabaloo around Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary has sent fans coming back to the single player FPS in droves: With a 24 hour peak of 52,027 players at the time of writing, that's more people playing Half-Life 2 than at any point since Steam started keeping track of concurrent players (or at least the data became available) in 2008...
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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.