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Gabe Newell demonstrates smacking a crowbar into a wall

Valve signed a deal for Counter-Strike 2 in 2003 because they were 'running on fumes', and Gabe Newell was so happy he made a celebratory knife with his own hands

By Rich Stanton published

News Of course, "it took us a long time to ship Counter-Strike 2."

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Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.

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"

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illustration a Steam logo of a video game digital distribution service is seen on a smartphone and a pc screen.

Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content

By Andy Chalk published

news US Senator Mark Warner comes less than a week after an ADL report accusing Steam of "normalizing hate and extremism in the gaming community."

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The G-Man looking at the camera.

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.

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Render of the new Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar art book, with an orange cover featuring a zoomed-in Lambda symbol spread over the front, back, and spine, all in a field of bone-white office supplies neatly arranged in a grid.

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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Early version of Alyx Vance in an alpha build of Half-Life 2

Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

By Ted Litchfield published

news Get Your Free TVs!

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Rebel throwing a toilet using the gravity gun

Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at

By Christopher Livingston published

🚽 I was routinely at the top of the leaderboards because I was pretty good at throwing toilets.

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Prototype ice gun still from Half-Life 3: Episode 3.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage

By Tyler Wilde published

news Also: "hoppy blobs." Here's our best glimpse at the cancelled Episode 3 yet.

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Gabe Newell in the 20th Anniversary Half-Life 2 Documentary.

'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

By Tyler Wilde published

news Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

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20 years after Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3 remains the stuff of occult whisperings: Here's every rumor we've heard about the sequel that may or may not exist

By Andy Chalk last updated

Half-Lies A look back at 20 years of not playing the most essential sequel in videogame history.

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