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Classic map Train returns in a Counter-Strike 2 update
By Jonathan Bolding published
News With a new look and layout.
Overwatch: Classic has me reckoning with the fact that OG Overwatch kind of sucks, but also that Blizzard could learn a few lessons from it
By Tyler Colp published
Throwback The rose-colored glasses have been torn right off.
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."
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!
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.
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.
'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."
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.
Valve gets the original Half-Life 2 development team back together for a huge 20th anniversary update—and the game is now free for the weekend on Steam
By Andy Chalk published
news The surprise update includes a full commentary track for the base game, significant graphical and gameplay updates, and a whole lot more.
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