Half-Life 2 News

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.

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.