Half-Life 2 News

Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remake

Half-Life 2 never seems to leave the limelight, standing the test of time as one of the most iconic PC games ever. The 2004 sci-fi shooter sequel is still one of Steam's most top-rated entries, and its creative community of modders isn't showing any signs of slowing down either. One creator took it upon himself to craft a new Resident Evil 2 remake using Valve's Source engine, producing a standalone mod for HL2 that's almost too good to believe.

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Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off

20 years. It's almost 20 actual years since the release of Half-Life 2. We've had the Episodes. Half-Life Alyx is fantastic. But when it comes to a full-tilt, loose-end-tying mainline sequel - Half-Life 3 - we're still waiting, hoping, slowly fading away. Valve's superlative sci-fi shooter series may one day come back, but in the meantime, Gordon Freeman fans are doing a spectacular job of keeping Half-Life alive. Enter a new Half-Life 2 mod, so big and professionally made to call it a mod feels reductive. This is a proper, finished, fully playable pseudo spin-off to Half-Life 2, casting you as one of the FPS game's most memorable side characters, trapped in what is certainly the most terrifying place Valve has ever built. We're going back to Ravenholm.

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Ex Valve dev says Steam Early Access doesn't work for PC game launches

Steam Early Access seems extremely helpful for developers, especially if they're launching a brand-new game and want to get a pre-emptive sense of players' reactions. You launch an in-progress build. You make some useful cash selling to your most ardent fans. You use their feedback to iterate and improve the game before the 1.0 launch. However, in some cases Steam Early Access may be detrimental to PC game-makers - at least, that's what one veteran Valve dev, whose credits include Half-Life 2, Portal, Left 4 Dead, and CSGO, argues.

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Half-Life 2 Update

An update has been released for Half-Life 2, Lost Coast, and the Episodes.

- Fixed a hang where NPC pathfinding could stall forever
- Fixed sprinting when using an external controller

Ex Half-Life and Valve dev says CoD MW3 is "gross and exploitative"

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 is having a tougher time than the average CoD. The MW3 campaign has drawn some serious criticism, in our own review especially, while recent player numbers suggest the multiplayer is struggling to hold players in line with Modern Warfare 2, despite the changes to zombies and Warzone. As Activision's annual shooter rolls on, Chet Faliszek, the legendary ex-Valve writer behind the Half-Life 2 episodes, Left 4 Dead, Portal, Portal 2, and Left 4 Dead 2, tells the Call of Duty team that one particular aspect of the latest CoD is "exploitative" and "gross."

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