Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Valve’s classic FPS. But while we’re not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth, we have to wonder, just when are we getting ...

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RTX Remix is getting even better. One mod prominently featured in Nvidia’s marketing is Half-Life 2 RTX, which was launched in March last year. The company continues to use HL2 RTX to show off new ...

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All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Half-Life 2: Alone Mod Half-Life 2 Alone Mod takes place in the usual City 17 that we’re used to, but with a twist: everyone, and I mean everyone, is gone.

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 ...

At GDC 2025, Nvidia shared a progress update on the Half-Life 2 RTX mod, and part of that was an announcement that a free demo of the visually-overhauled title was coming on March 18. That day has ...

City 17 has never looked better. We can now play two chapters of Half-Life 2 with full ray tracing and in 4K. Yeah, can’t wait to freak out in full 4K while Barnacles slowly drag me to my doom, or ...

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