Half Life 2
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Valve zoomed in Half-Life 2's FOV from the gold standard 90 so you could see all those pretty Source engine faces better
By Ted Litchfield published
news Long-forgotten FOV crimes exposed.
The origin of the Source engine's iconic neon fuchsia checkerboard texture, as told by Half-Life 2's new commentary mode
By Ted Litchfield published
news There's no mistaking this guy.
The best Half-Life 2 mods: 20th anniversary edition
By Dominic Tarason published
Occupied A fistful of mods for Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, for Free Men and Women of all stripes.
Early plans for Half-Life 2 sound wild, including visits to cities like Chicago and LA, several Combine bases, and a sequence where a plane crashed into a skyrise that was cut after 9/11
By Jody Macgregor published
News "You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. And then, go to like three other cities."
Half-Life 2 review
By Jim Rossignol published
Gravity Fun PC Gamer's original 2004 review of Half-Life 2.
A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email
By Ted Litchfield published
news "The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt—we went all in, there was no money left"
More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track
By Ted Litchfield published
news Not bad for a 20-year-old game.
Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes
By Ted Litchfield published
news It'll have concept art for Episode One and Two, as well as "ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be."
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