Half Life 2
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"Valve would never ship another game": Former exec forced Half-Life publisher's hand by saying Gabe Newell and the team would pivot away from game dev
By Dustin Bailey published
News "I knew Gabe had interesting ideas that had nothing to do with games"

Half-Life 2's anniversary update broke a simple speedrunning strat that was in use for 20 years, so Valve has now fixed the 'fix' in a new patch
By Kaan Serin published
News The 20th anniversary update included some annoying changes for speedrunners

Valve was "pretty close to going bankrupt" until it was saved from a pre-Half-Life 2 lawsuit by a summer intern who happened to major in Korean language studies
By Dustin Bailey published
News Gabe Newell's personal finances were on the line too

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Valve lead Gabe Newell thought just “pushing the story forward” wasn’t a good enough reason to make a game
By Anna Koselke published
News “We could’ve shipped it, it wouldn’t have been that hard”

20 years later, Half-Life 2 Deathmatch still my favorite online multiplayer FPS of all time
By Joe Donnelly published
Opinion Opinion | You can rip toilets from the wall and kill enemies with them. Enough said?

Valve dev explains why Half-Life 2's eyes were (and maybe still are) the best in the biz
By Kaan Serin published
News The G-Man is creepy for a reason

Half-Life 2 fans praise fan-made prequel set in Combine rebellion years before Gordon Freeman shows up
By Anne-Marie Ostler published
news "Very impressive mod with a fresh setting, but stays true to the core gameplay loop of Half-Life 2"

Half-Life 2 with ray-tracing looks incredible, thanks to NVIDIA's newly open-source tool
By Jasmine Gould-Wilson published
News It's another win for the modding community
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