Ninth place went to the huge mod Horn of the Abyss for Heroes of Might and Magic III. In practice, it is an unofficial ...

John Stevenson reports that retirement timelines vary significantly across U.S. states, influenced by factors like cost of ...

Two free Half-Life games are now available on Steam for all fans of PC gaming and the sci-fi first-person shooter series.

Half-Life 2 is officially twenty. That sentiment is enough to make a whole generation of gamers’ joints creak in exasperation. It’s old enough to vote, to drive a car, even eligible to pay tax, but is ...

"The two biggest bug-farms in gamedev - doors and floating point - contrived to make a simple NPC placement bug into quite the time-travelling palaver" When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Over two decades have passed since Half-Life 2 was released, but its developer, Valve, has never gotten around to making Half-Life 3. Instead, Valve ...

'I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition...' 2007. That’s the year when Valve started talking openly about Half-Life 2: Episode 3, back when the company was still planning on ...

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Say what you like about Valve, they make the trains run on time. Eventually. Half-Life 2 got a small surprise update yesterday which changed the speed of a train in the 2004 shooter's driving sequence ...

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 ...

After what feels like eons of waiting, the Half-Life 2 RTX demo is finally here. You can try two levels of the fan-made enhancement to Valve's epochal FPS right now, turning the classic shooter on its ...

TL;DR: Half-Life 2 RTX is a remaster by Orbifold Studios using NVIDIA's RTX Remix, transforming the classic game with modern PBR objects and ray-tracing. The demo, available for GeForce RTX owners, ...