Half-Life 2 News

Half-Life 2 VR Mod makers are adding Episode One for free soon

Time to dust off your headset and motion controllers, because a free VR version of Half-Life 2: Episode One is coming to Steam. Created by Half-Life 2: VR Mod’s SourceVR Mod Team, Episode One is the first of Valve’s episodic adventures to get the virtual reality overhaul treatment. It’s planned to follow up with Episode Two at an unannounced, but at a later date. You can take a gander at Half-Life 2: VR Mod - Episode One in full flow below, without wearing the fancy digital helmet.

Half-Life 2: Update

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

- Minor code maintenance, no customer-facing changes.

A huge amount of Valve assets have leaked, including classics like Half Life 2 and Team Fortress 2

A whole bunch of Valve assets have leaked, as well as some cut content for classics like Team Fortress 2 and Half-Life 2.

As spotted by PC Gamer, assets for games including Portal, Team Fortress 2, Conster Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2, and Half Life 2 multiplayer. It comes from a leaker by the name of Leakerwanderer, sharing the assets through Discord. The dump is a huge one, as it includes 61GB of Team Fortress 2 assets just by itself, which has plenty of files showing a range of things that didn't make it into the final game.

There's so much, in fact, that not everything has been found yet, but what has been found will likely be of interest to fans of the games. TF2 content creator Richter Overtime shared a look at some of the assets found in the leak, writing "Tones of never before seen maps, models, PSDs & VMFs, everything. Once the community finishes digesting this (61GB), there will be nothing else to talk about. This is the last official TF2 content drop you or I will ever see."

If you go down to the woods today, you're in for a big surprise. Spoilers: the surprise is an ambush from Combine soldiers and antlions, sent to welcome you after your helicopter crashes in Half-Life 2 mod Evacuation. There are zombies, too. Maybe today was not the best day to go down to the woods.

After almost 2 decades Half-Life 2 has been given a free expansion, except it's not developed by Valve for the FPS game, with it instead being made by a group of fans and released on Steam. Telling a short story of a rebel fighting off Combine in the woods, Half-Life 2 Evacuation isn't exactly the explosive narrative of Half-Life 3 we've all been waiting for, but at least it's something - and it's free.

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