Half-Life 2 News

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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'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

Rumors and facts about the contents of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 and why it was never finished have circulated for years, but a new documentary released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary is particularly revealing, showing us a glimpse of unfinished Episode 3 guns and enemies—including an ice ray that had "kind of like a Silver Surfer mode"—and getting a few of its developers to explain why it was never finished...
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Gabe Newell ponders the future in new Half-Life 2 documentary: 'I think that Half-Life represents a tool we have and promises made to customers'

To celebrate Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve dropped a few surprises in our lap on Friday afternoon, like putting together the original dev team to record in-game commentary for the legendary FPS, which is free for the weekend on Steam. Awesome! Valve also posted a two-hour documentary on the making of Half-Life 2 on YouTube. Also awesome—unless you had something else to watch tonight like a ridiculous boxing match...
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