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The voice behind Half-Life 2’s Vortigaunts has passed awayApr 1, 2024 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLouis Gossett Jr., who made history as the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and had a prolific, successful career across film, television and stage - as well as voicing the friendly Vortigaunt aliens in Half-Life 2 and its follow-up Episode One - has died. Read more Actor Louis Gossett Jr, who voiced Half-Life 2's vortigaunts, has diedMar 29, 2024 - PC Gamerctor Louis Gossett Jr, who has appeared in dozens of films, television shows, and plays—as well as two videogames—died this week at 87, reports AP News... Read more.Half Life 2 RTX won't use AI textures, devs are crafting "every pixel"Mar 13, 2024 - PCGamesNWhile the likes of Quake and Portal have proven to be impressive showcases for Nvidia RTX Remix, the task put before the Half-Life 2 RTX development team is on another level. Taking a moment away from the mod's development, Chris Workman, founder of Orbifold studios shared some insight on the levels of care and attention it takes to bring path tracing and more to a classic PC game. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Forgotten Half-Life 2 mod from 2007 suddenly has 1,700% more players Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remake Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off Forgotten Half-Life 2 mod from 2007 suddenly has 1,700% more playersJan 30, 2024 - PCGamesNIt may just be an off-shoot of the hugely popular Half-Life 2, but Age of Chivalry is enjoying an unbelievable resurgence of late, with thousands of players giving the RPG mod their time and attention over the last month like never before. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remake Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off Ex Valve dev says Steam Early Access doesn't work for PC game launches Massive Half-Life 2 mod is basically a new Resident Evil 2 remakeJan 12, 2024 - PCGamesNHalf-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. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-off Ex Valve dev says Steam Early Access doesn't work for PC game launches Ex Half-Life and Valve dev says CoD MW3 is "gross and exploitative" Amazing new Half-Life 2 campaign is like a full, unofficial spin-offJan 10, 2024 - PCGamesN20 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. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ex Valve dev says Steam Early Access doesn't work for PC game launches Ex Half-Life and Valve dev says CoD MW3 is "gross and exploitative" New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooter Ex Valve dev says Steam Early Access doesn't work for PC game launchesNov 28, 2023 - PCGamesNSteam 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. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ex Half-Life and Valve dev says CoD MW3 is "gross and exploitative" New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooter Half-Life 2 RTX to remaster "perfect image" you have of the original Half-Life 2 UpdateNov 16, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsAn 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 controllerEx Half-Life and Valve dev says CoD MW3 is "gross and exploitative"Nov 15, 2023 - PCGamesNCall 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." Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooter Half-Life 2 RTX to remaster "perfect image" you have of the original Half-Life 2 RTX is real, beautiful, and coming soon New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooterOct 23, 2023 - PCGamesNHalf-Life 2 is a stone-cold classic. The Valve shooter that introduced City 17, Alyx Vance, and the iconic gravity gun still feels fresh and modern almost 20 years later, and is well worth your time, especially as we wait - and wait - for Half-Life 3. But if there's one thing I would change about HL2, it's the gunplay. Armed with his trusty crowbar and a slew of great-looking, imaginative weapons (the red-hot-rebar-firing crossbow will always be a favorite), Gordon Freeman nevertheless feels a bit rigid, a bit static. Now, a new mod for Half-Life 2 VR transforms gunplay in the Steam classic, making the entire FPS feel much more alive. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Half-Life 2 RTX to remaster "perfect image" you have of the original Half-Life 2 RTX is real, beautiful, and coming soon Half-Life reimagined as a horror game set in the ruins of Black Mesa Half-Life 2 RTX to remaster "perfect image" you have of the originalOct 22, 2023 - PCGamesNA new Half-Life 2 RTX interview with the team behind the overhaul to the classic Valve FPS is here, as the developers dive into how they're aiming to change up the iconic game while staying true to what makes it so special. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New version of Half-Life 2 totally transforms Valve's classic shooter Half-Life 2 RTX is real, beautiful, and coming soon Half-Life reimagined as a horror game set in the ruins of Black Mesa The week that changed PC gaming foreverSep 15, 2023 - PC GamerPeople were excited in 2004. The most anticipated PC game there had ever been was on its way. Half-Life 2’s predecessor had shaken up the game industry to a degree that even the last 25 years of hyperbole in the game press hasn’t quite got across. It was like someone had just flipped a switch: one minute there were only Doom clones and stifled yawns, the next, everyone was doing set-pieces, real-time storytelling, and turrets. Valve’s FPS was so good that we were even happy to play the bad impressions of it... Read more.Half-Life 2 RTX is real, beautiful, and coming soonAug 22, 2023 - PCGamesNHalf-Life 2 RTX is on the way, and it's already evoking the same feelings of awe I had simply looking at the now-classic Valve FPS game almost 20 years ago. Featuring ray tracing, modernized assets, and more, this is the closest we'll likely ever get to a full Half-Life 2 remake. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Diablo 4 Season 2 has vampires, and also a Marvel hero Cyberpunk 2077 is about to get an enormous free update Ice-T shows off his "own special heist mission" in Payday 3 Half-Life 2 getting a modern makeover with Ray Tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex and RTX IOAug 22, 2023 - VG247Half-Life 2 is getting some revamped visuals thanks to modders using Nvidia's RTX Remix. The RTX Community Project is remastering the title, dubbed Half-Life 2 RTX, and it's in development with four of Half-Life 2's top mod teams. Using RTX Remix, Half-Life 2 RTX will feature full ray tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex, and RTX IO in a similar vein to Portal, which was given the RTX treatment last year. Read more Half-Life reimagined as a horror game set in the ruins of Black MesaJul 31, 2023 - PCGamesNHalf-Life and Half-Life 2 are already pretty frightening. In the original Valve classic, it's the subaquatic ichthyosaur that seriously brings the scares, with that buggy movement and the way it glitches into the camera. Half-Life 2 meanwhile could easily feature among the best horror games of the last 20 years. The fast zombies. The black headcrabs. That part in HL2 Episode Two where you're crawling through the Antlion nest. Yeesh. But now the adventures of Gordon Freeman have gotten even more terrifying, with a new Half-Life horror experience where you play as a Combine researcher, exploring the ruins of Black Mesa. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Half-Life players plan to break a world record to show Valve they care Snag the best way to experience Half-Life for $5 while you still can Iconic Half-Life character isn't who we think he is, Valve dev says Half-Life 2 mod lets you finally experience the game as it was meant to be played: in Lego formJul 11, 2023 - PC GamerGreat news, friends, dedicated modders have finally restored Half-Life 2 to Valve's original vision. Freed from the fetters of 2004-era hardware, we can at last experience the genre-defining FPS classic as the good Lord intended: with every character replaced by a profoundly unlicensed Lego substitute... Read more.Half-Life 2 mod turns the PC classic into the greatest Lego video game never madeJul 10, 2023 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunIn the almost 20 years since Half-Life 2 refined what first-person shooters could be, it’s been modded into just about every form you can imagine. From complete virtual reality conversions and real-time strategy games to fan-made remasters impressive enough to earn a thumb-up from Valve, there seems to be no limit to what Half-Life has been, is and could be. Read more Lego Half-Life 2 is real and available now on SteamJul 10, 2023 - PCGamesNHalf-Life 2 is one of the all-time defining FPS games. Released in 2004, and launching the Valve renaissance that also birthed Portal and Left 4 Dead, the legacy of HL2 is just as strong today, thanks to fan remasters, VR projects, and myriad Half-Life mods. But this one might just take the Black Mesa transit system ticket - Lego Half-Life 2 turns every character in the iconic shooter, from Gordon Freeman to Alyx Vance and the G-Man, into tiny, blocky Lego figurines. If you're tired of waiting for Half-Life 3, and want to imagine an alternate universe where, alongside Star Wars and Indiana Jones, Half-Life also got the Lego tie-in treatment, you should head over to Steam right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Snag basically every Valve game for an unreal 96% off Huge Half-Life 2 prequel mod explores fallout from the Seven-Hour War New Half-Life 2 speedrun will make Valve cry Snag basically every Valve game for an unreal 96% offJul 1, 2023 - PCGamesNValve's The Orange Box is filled with some of the best PC games ever made: Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2, and Portal are industry classics and essential for anyone with a passing interest in the medium, if you haven't played them you absolutely must. So what if we told you the collection is just $2 in the current Summer Steam sale, and what if we added that for just a few extra pennies, you can snag Half-Life 2 and over a dozen more Valve classics in one of the best deals going right now. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Huge Half-Life 2 prequel mod explores fallout from the Seven-Hour War New Half-Life 2 speedrun will make Valve cry Half-Life 2 Remastered is testing on Steam Huge Half-Life 2 prequel mod explores fallout from the Seven-Hour WarJun 27, 2023 - PCGamesNA new Half-Life 2 prequel has been developed for the FPS game, as a group of fan developers has released a brilliant-looking expansion that aims to fill the gap between the two games. Focusing on the fallout of the original Combine invasion and the Seven-Hour War, this is a shorter campaign in the spirit of Valve's own HL2 Episode One and Episode Two. If you want a lore-friendly addition to the world of Half-Life 2, or need something to fill the space until Half-Life 3 arrives (which it will, one day, surely) check this out. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: New Half-Life 2 speedrun will make Valve cry Half-Life 2 Remastered is testing on Steam Team Fortress 2 star teases new project with Valve
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