Half-Life 2

Valve

Released
Nov 16, 2004
Platforms
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FPSActionSci-fiClassicSingleplayer

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  1. PC Gamer

    One of our favorite Half-Life 2 mods is getting a stealth game prequel where you're a Combine assassin preying on the human resistance

    The cult classic Half-Life 2 mod series Entropy: Zero has another entry in the works, and speaking as a fan of Thief, Deus Ex, and all things immersive sim, Entropy: Zero 2 - Progenitors may be the most exciting one yet... Read more.

  2. PC Gamer

    Web port wizards produce browser versions of Half-Life 2 and Portal

    It's been established that Doom can run on produce , but porting wizardry doesn't start and end with blasting cacodemons on increasingly ludicrous hardware setups. It's sometimes the simple things that stick out most, like this web browser port of Half-Life 2 . Not as silly as po

  3. Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    "That lore terrifies me": Ex-Valve writer Chet Faliszek isn't interested in writing a Half-Life 3, as he wouldn't touch a sequel "with with a 10-foot pole"

    Stop it. Stop trying to make him do it. He won't. He will not do it. He's been very clear with you. Yes, you, seemingly random commenter who's suggested that making Half-Life 3 would be a piece of cake. Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek doesn't reckon it would be. The mythical se

  4. PC Gamer

    Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek has no interest in writing Half-Life 3: 'I don't want to touch that with a 10-foot pole'

    Chet Faliszek opens the above video by explaining, "This is not saying that something's happening, not trying to allude to anything. I'm going to talk about some stuff from like 10-plus years ago. I'm not trying to say anything . OK?" Because if you were a writer on Half-Life 2's

  5. PC Gamer

    You're not crazy, that one sewer puzzle in Half-Life 2 really was harder 22 years ago

    YouTuber Ocelot , who specializes in videos comparing different versions of games like Silent Hill 3 and Resident Evil: Code Veronica , recently took to analyzing different versions of Half-Life 2. Valve's FPS may not seem as fruitful a topic for dissection, but there are more di

  6. Rock, Paper, Shotgun

    Imagine GTA with AI-generated characters "just going along with whatever insane thing you say," muses Valve writer, absent-mindedly spotlighting what terrifies me about genAI

    Like many people at companies preoccupied with discovering the next "goose that lays the golden egg" , Half-Life 2 and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw has been "poking around" with generative AI. He and a small team at Valve have been testing out different applications, in what Wolpaw

  7. PC Gamer

    C'mon, Remedy, you can't use the words 'Rise and Shine' in your TGA trailer—don't you know you're hurting all those hopeful fans in r/Halflife?

    Hope springs eternal, and there's no better evidence of that than the members of subreddit r/Halflife , who have been waiting all year for the announcement of Half-Life 3, or Half-Life X, or whatever the next Half-Life game will be called... Read more.

  8. PC Gamer

    A former Valve dev revealed how, while a VR version of Half-Life 2 was being made, a single metro cop's toe created a 'time-travelling' bug that softlocked all versions of the game

    One of the coolest things about Half-Life 2 is its physics engine, but as anyone who has played a physics-based game will know, even the best-in-class tech is prone to quirks here and there. Valve's legendary narrative shooter was no exception, as former Valve developer Tom Forsy

  9. PC Gamer

    Half-Life fans are in a frenzy over the prospect of a Half-Life 3 announcement that there's (almost) no good reason to believe is happening

    Half-Life 3 fever has once again broken out across social media, and the Half-Life subreddit is full of both earnestly hopeful and sarcastically dismissive posts about the supposedly imminent announcement of a sequel to Valve's landmark 2004 shooter—probably the most speculated-a

  10. PC Gamer

    OK, for real though, what's the chance of a Half-Life 3 announcement happening soon? Here's what we know

    fter two decades of Half-Life 3 rumors , each new burst of hope looks a lot like Charlie Brown once again getting set to kick a football. None of the suspicious lines of CS:GO code or yarn-webbed conspiracy board YouTube videos have actually preceded an announcement of the fabled

  11. PC Gamer

    Half-Life 2 just got a patch that fixes a progress-blocking teleporter bug and makes a train easier to race

    Last year, Valve brought the original development team back together for a 20th anniversary Half-Life 2 update . It integrated the post-launch episodes, added a new developer commentary track, brought in Steam Workshop support, and added a heap of map and gameplay updates. All of

  12. Developer post

    July 23, 2025 Update

    Restored speed of the train near the end of Highway 17 to better match the original shipped difficulty. Fixed missing collision that was allowing NPCs to shoot through some walls in Entanglement. Fixed issue where Alyx could obstruct the player's path when boarding the teleporter

  13. PCGamesN

    Forgotten Half-Life 2 zombie mod from 2007 suddenly explodes on Steam

    If Half-Life is one of the most influential videogame series in history, it's not only because of Valve, Gordon Freeman, and the actual FPS games themselves. Half-Life and Half-Life 2 are nexus points for a whole generation of PC classics. Counter-Strike began as a Half-Life mod,

  14. PC Gamer

    Half-Life 2 becomes a loot-hoarding roguelike dungeon crawl in this Next Fest mod demo

    It is the year 2025 and everything is a roguelite now. Even the games of yesteryear are getting randomizers and procedural generation shoehorned in, and Half-Life 2 isn't escaping either. Good thing that SourceWorld is pretty dang fun, if its newly released Next Fest demo is any

  15. PCGamesN

    Half-Life 2 will never be the same as legendary mod officially comes to Steam

    How many times have you completed Half-Life 2 ? In the 21 years (yeesh) since Valve's genre-changing FPS game was first released, I'd speculate that I've destroyed the Citadel, escaped City 17, and launched the rocket from White Forest on no fewer than 30 occasions. Maybe that sa

  16. PC Gamer

    Former Valve writer Marc Laidlaw says he 'retired too hard', but there's no way he's coming back for Half-Life 3: 'We need new stuff, [not] me going 'Well the G-Man wouldn't do that in my day''

    new episode of Netflix's Love, Death and Robots is based on a short story written back in the 80s by former Valve writer and now professional retiree Marc Laidlaw . Laidlaw left Valve in 2016 but, in a new interview with IGN , wonders whether "I retired too hard.".. Read more.

  17. PCGamesN

    Half-Life 2 RTX ruined Ravenholm, but those big lighting problems just got fixed

    It seems like rumors pointing to Half-Life 3's existence are reaching a new fever pitch lately, but, as has been the case for more than a decade now, it's probably better to focus your attention on games in the series that actually exist until an actual launch date is announced.

  18. PC Gamer

    Valve only wants to make new Half-Life games if they push the medium forward, but what could it push forward next?

    When asked to explain why Valve never made Half-Life 2: Episode 3 for the recent 20th anniversary documentary, Gabe Newell said that he "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward.".. Read more.

  19. PC Gamer

    Half-Life 2's 2003 beta reveals the mystery behind a City 17 river that once led players to the foot of the Citadel

    There are various unfinished versions of Half-Life 2 that have come to light over the years, all of which reveal interesting things about how Valve's plans changed over time as it painstakingly refined and pruned one of the PC gaming greats... Read more.

  20. PC Gamer

    Arkane was 'devastated' by its cancelled Half-Life 2 Ravenholm game, but the masterclass it got from late visionary artist Viktor Antonov 'was pivotal to what would become Arkane later'

    One of the most unfortunate missed shots in gaming is that of Arkane's cancelled Ravenholm game—in case you're unfamiliar, circa 2007-2008, Arkane was working on a standalone spin-off that would see players returning to Half-Life 2's zombie-infested Ravenholm... Read more.