Half-Life 2
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FeatureHow Viktor Antonov turned from building cities to planets
City 17 to city infinity.
VideoHalf-Life fan film premiered online
Beyond Black Mesa took 2 years to make.
VideoMolyneux gets son begging Valve for HL3
Lucas Molyneux makes YouTube plea.
VideoHalf-Life 2 Mac OSX trailer
Out on 26th May.
Key events
11th July 2020
Valve cancelled a lot of games over the last 10 years, including Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3
27th May 2020
19th November 2019
26th March 2015
12th November 2012
3rd September 2012
Black Mesa release date: The Half-Life remake is finished, sort of
31st January 2012
26th May 2010
4th November 2008
20th March 2008
14th December 2007
24th July 2007
21st November 2005
10th May 2005
27th April 2005
18th November 2004
Now modders are using Half-Life: Alyx to get Half-Life 2 working in VR
And there's a video of the early results.
FeatureA new Half-Life would have to be VR
Zero point.
Rumours swirl of a Half-Life VR announcement from Valve
UPDATE: It's official!
FeatureFive of the Best: Horizons
Zero yawn.
Valve has fixed NPCs not blinking in Half-Life 2
Don't lash out.
FeatureHow Viktor Antonov turned from building cities to planets
City 17 to city infinity.
FeatureThe impossible architecture of video games
Bang head against wall of text.
City 17 from Half-Life 2 as a city map
Gordon's survey.
There's no new official Half-Life game, but there is an officially licensed Half-Life comic
And Chapter 3 is out this month.
Modders set out to make Half-Life 2 playable on Rift and Vive
Half-Life 3(D) confirmed.
Chet Faliszek has left Valve
Portal and Left 4 Dead writer runs out of Steam.
There's a sneaky Half-Life 3 poster at Gamescom
But it's not what it seems.
Former Valve employee is suing the company for $3.1m
Alleges developer exploited minors for free labour, discriminated against transgender staff.
After 10 years of waiting, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 seems further away than ever
Vortigone for good?
Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw leaves Valve
Now a free man.
Steam Link and Steam Controller don't work with Macs - yet
UPDATE: Now they do.
All GAME stores will soon get a dedicated Steam section
Shelf-Life SKU.
FeatureThe man who sent his game to Gabe Newell in a briefcase
A chance encounter and an unlikely tale.
Half-Line Miami, a free fan-made crossover, is out now
Do you like hurting people, Mr. Freeman?
Valve-approved Half-Life 2: Update headed to Steam
Combine it with the main game.
Valve's virtual reality headset is called Vive, made by HTC
SteamVR games available soon.
Half-Life 2 RTS Lambda Wars releases on Steam
Alien Swarm mod now a free download after Valve Greenlight.
FeatureHalf-Life 2 remembered
"You've arrived in City 17..."
FeatureHalf-Life 2: 10 years on
You remember, don't you, Mr Freeman?
Steam Music Player lets you listen to your music while you play
Half-Life and Portal soundtracks DLC going free.
The Half-Life 2 VR mod makes even reloading seem cool
See how Oculus and Hydra combine to revolutionise shooters.
Standalone Half-Life 2 mod NeoTokyo released on Steam
Cor, you Tokyo time.
Half-Life 2 and Portal go portable on Nvidia Shield
Cost $9.99 each on Google Play.
What if someone remade Half-Life 2 in the Unreal Engine?
It might look like this.
Valve set to demo its own Virtual Reality hardware
And reveal how it will work with Steam.
Valve reveals specs of its Steam Machine prototype
Combines high-end power with a living-room-friendly form factor.
FeatureOmni treadmill: The future of VR goes in every direction
Walk this way. No, not that way. THIS WAY!
Ex-Valve hardware chief offers an alternative view on life inside the Half-Life maker
"There is actually a hidden layer of powerful management structure in the company, and it felt a lot like High School."
FeatureMinerva matter: The Half-Life 2 mod that opened the gates of Valve
Adam Foster's two-and-a-half-year job application for the world's most enigmatic game developer.
Half-Life 2 gets official Oculus Rift support
See video of it and Dishonored played with the headset.
Screenshots of Half-Life 2 mod Minerva
A single-player story by a fan-turned-Valve-employee.
Acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod Minerva polished up and released on Steam
The mod that bagged Adam Foster a job at Valve.
Valve's Gabe Newell to receive BAFTA Fellowship snazzy award thing
Perhaps he Newell along.
J.J. Abrams and Gabe Newell want to collaborate on movies, games
UPDATE: Abrams really is in talks with Valve about Half-Life/Portal movies. "It's as real as anything in Hollywood ever gets."
Kinect support for Garry's Mod imminent, brilliant, funny
Expect Half-Life 2 Gangnam Style.
Half-Life writer wants Guillermo del Toro to direct film version
Hell, boy that'd be good!
Gabe Newell named as next AIAS Hall of Famer
Oh they'll induct anyone have they no standards etc..
Gabe Newell confirms Valve working on Source 2
Waiting for a game to release it with. What could that be?
Valve "jumping in" to computer hardware space
"We're frustrated by the lack of innovation."
Black Mesa release date: The Half-Life remake is finished, sort of
A voluntary project that's taken years.
Viktor Antonov's Half-Life 2 concept artwork
Some of it, and not in glorious real-life-like resolutions.
Why Half-Life 2 City 17 creator Viktor Antonov left Valve
"It causes a lot of surprise that anyone would leave."
FeatureRetrospective: Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 & 2
Rise and shine.
FeatureValve Interview: Gabe Newell Isn't The Boss of Me
Jason Holtman gives a peek inside Valve's unique structure
Feature"It's been a poor, poor five years for fiction in the video game industry"
The creator of Half-Life 2's City 17 and Dishonored tells us why.
Valve on Valve Time: "It's charming. It's kind of a compliment."
Plus, we ask, what's taking Half-Life 3 so long?
Valve collaborating with Adult Swim on something Team Fortress related
UPDATE: Free hat until 4th July.
Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive support Razer Hydra PC motion controller
Added to Left 4 Dead 2, Half-Life 2, Team Fortress 2 and 250 Steam games.
Newell: Valve wants its games "more baked" before revealing them
"We're acutely aware of how much we annoy our fans."
FeatureWhy Devs Owe You Nothing
When does a game belong to its fans rather than its creators?
10,000 Valve fans stage Half-Life 3 protest
But far less than 50,000 signed up to do so.
Half-Life 3 fan campaign staging mass gameplay session
Up to 29,000 gamers to play Half-Life 2 this Saturday.
"A Call for Communication (Half-Life)" Steam Group passes 10,000 members
But will Valve listen?
Valve employee spotted in Half Life 3 shirt
Just teasing?
Valve: piracy a "non-issue" for Steam
Perhaps Gabe Newell along.
Games bleeding into real life - study
Fantastical reactions to mundane situations.
Garry's Mod racks up a million downloads
Big update planned for Half Life 2 mod.
Valve's Half-Life dev hampered by Steam?
Impulse maker Stardock draws parallels.
Garry's Mod sets trap for pirates
Clever code names and shames.
FeatureThe boy who stole Half-Life 2
From the archive: the story behind the $250m robbery.
Steam owns half PC download market
Is "tremendously profitable" says Newell.
VideoHalf-Life fan film premiered online
Beyond Black Mesa took 2 years to make.
VideoMolyneux gets son begging Valve for HL3
Lucas Molyneux makes YouTube plea.
VideoHalf-Life 2 Mac OSX trailer
Out on 26th May.
Half-Life 2 actor passes away
Robert Culp played Dr Wallace Breen.
Valve bundles 22 games for USD 99
Includes Left 4 Dead. Bargain!
Steam Cloud to launch this week
Centralise game data starting with L4D.
Chunky Orange Box PS3 patch released
Should remedy many of the problems.
FeatureValve's Doug Lombardi
Chatting about Portal and whether Orange Box will return.
Portal: First Slice for NVIDIA users
Valve loves it some NVIDIA.
The Orange Box
We pit EA's port against PC and 360.
Use your Portal gun in HL2
Win cake.
World of Mods: Half-Life 2
Games that are free, so long as you've already paid.
AMD and Valve hold hands
Free Steam for Radeon owners.
FeatureOpening the Valve
Part 2: On Warren Spector, Alyx, and the importance of playtesting.
FeatureOpening the Valve
Gabe Newell and co. on Hollywood, Episode One and future expansions.
Half-Life 2 on Xbox 360?
Possibly. One day.
Garry's Mod to be sold on Steam
$10 for Half-Life 2 mod.
Half-Life 2: Episode 2 underway
Valve confirms its existence.
64-bit Half-Life 2 released
For Athlon 64 FX processors.
Half-Life 2
Console yourself, it's finally here.
Half-Life 2 Xbox dated
'-Life is complete.
Valve hints at extra content in Half-Life 2: Lost Coast
And DoD: Source is nearly done.
A Few Good G-Men
Movie gets HL2 makeover.
HL2 Lost Coast screens
It's all gone HDR.
Half-Life 2
Could the gravity gun lift the Xbox?
Valve unveils E3 plans
Half-Life 2 Xbox, PC's Lost Coast bit on show.
HL2: Lost Coast trailer
It's a weighty download, mind, but very pretty indeed. On Eurofiles now.
Euro HL2 Xbox late summer
Valve confirms the console port of Half-Life 2 should be out "late summer", but Aftermath won't be included.
FeatureHalf-Life 2: The Lost Coast
Valve gives a glimpse of its next-gen plans, providing more info on its single Half-Life 2 level for high end PCs.
Half-Life 2
Moves the goalposts. With a gravity gun.
FeatureE3 2003: Half-Life 2
Three words: Oh. My. God.
FeatureHalf-Life 2
The original game had a decent Half-Life, and this one looks like it might too...