Half-Life 2

Long-in-the-works Half-Life 2 VR mod finally launches on Steam today

Initially as a public beta.

Long-in-the-works Half-Life 2 VR mod gets public beta next month

After being stuck in "development hell".

Half-Life 2 and Portal 2 beta files found in Portal Companion Collection

Something to be GLaDOS about.

Here's an hour of footage from Ravenholm: Arkane's cancelled Half-Life game

Decayed in time.

Half-Life 2's UI is getting Steam Deck ready

All decked up.

Valve quietly readying Half-Life 2 for Steam Deck with big new beta branch update

Also adds ultra-wide support, FOV boost, and more.

Half-Life 2 community challenge achieves highest concurrent player count since records began

The bar is broken.

Half-Life 2 Remastered Collection is fan-made but reportedly has Valve's "consent"

It's the next iteration of the free mod, Half-Life 2: Update.

After 13 years of development, Half-Life 2 RTS mod Lambda Wars finally leaves beta

Combined arms.

Gabe Newell's gnome is blasting into space for charity early Friday morning in the UK

$1 being donated for every viewer.

Valve cancelled a lot of games over the last 10 years, including Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3

Gee-whiz.

Watch footage of cancelled Half-Life spin-off Ravenholm

Holy crab.

Now modders are using Half-Life: Alyx to get Half-Life 2 working in VR

And there's a video of the early results.

Valve: "We absolutely see Half-Life: Alyx as our return to this world, not the end of it"

Here we go!

Rumours swirl of a Half-Life VR announcement from Valve

UPDATE: It's official!

Valve has fixed NPCs not blinking in Half-Life 2

Don't lash out.

City 17 from Half-Life 2 as a city map

Gordon's survey.

Former Valve employee is suing the company for $3.1m

Alleges developer exploited minors for free labour, discriminated against transgender staff.

Ex-Valve writer reveals what might have been Half-Life 2: Episode 3's story

Gee, man.

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.

Images of Junction Point's cancelled Half-Life 2 episode reveal a snowy Ravenholm

Spector analysis.

Denied: Valve didn't go for that Half-Life 3 plea with its own Steam Awards

Cold.

It didn't take long for people to use the Steam Awards to tell Valve to make Half-Life 3

Done!

Valve's unreleased Half-Life mod Threewave uncovered, fixed and released

Now free, man.

There's a sneaky Half-Life 3 poster at Gamescom

But it's not what it seems.

After 10 years of waiting, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 seems further away than ever

Vortigone for good?

Why people are talking about Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3

Again.

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.

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.

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.

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."

Half-Life 2 gets official Oculus Rift support

See video of it and Dishonored played with the headset.

Acclaimed Half-Life 2 mod Minerva polished up and released on Steam

The mod that bagged Adam Foster a job at Valve.

Garry's Mod: $22 million in seven years and now Garry is making a new PC game

Gee, man.

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."

Screenshots of Dishonored dev's Half-Life 2: Episode 4 Return to Ravenholm emerge

Absorption.

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.

Why Half-Life 2 City 17 creator Viktor Antonov left Valve

"It causes a lot of surprise that anyone would leave."

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."

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.

Half-Life 2: Episode 3 code in Dota 2?

G-man.

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.

Steam owns half PC download market

Is "tremendously profitable" says Newell.

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.

Portal: First Slice for NVIDIA users

Valve loves it some NVIDIA.

Use your Portal gun in HL2

Win cake.

AMD and Valve hold hands

Free Steam for Radeon owners.

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 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.

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.

HL2: Lost Coast trailer

It's a weighty download, mind, but very pretty indeed. On Eurofiles now.

Valve unveils E3 plans

Half-Life 2 Xbox, PC's Lost Coast bit on show.

Review | The Orange Box

We pit EA's port against PC and 360.

Review | World of Mods: Half-Life 2

Games that are free, so long as you've already paid.

Review | Half-Life 2

Moves the goalposts. With a gravity gun.

Review | Half-Life 2

Console yourself, it's finally here.

Digital Foundry | The Orange Box modded to run at 4K 60fps on Xbox Series X is the best way to play on consoles

A final flourish for a gaming classic - but there's a catch.

Feature | Five of the Best: Title screens

Oh Lord.

Feature | Five of the Best: Horizons

Zero yawn.

Feature | A new Half-Life would have to be VR

Zero point.

Feature | The boy who stole Half-Life 2

From the archive: the story behind the $250m robbery.

Interview | How Viktor Antonov turned from building cities to planets

City 17 to city infinity.

Feature | The impossible architecture of video games

Bang head against wall of text.

Feature | The man who sent his game to Gabe Newell in a briefcase

A chance encounter and an unlikely tale.

Feature | Half-Life 2 remembered

"You've arrived in City 17..."

Feature | Half-Life 2: 10 years on

You remember, don't you, Mr Freeman?

Feature | Omni treadmill: The future of VR goes in every direction

Walk this way. No, not that way. THIS WAY!

Feature | Minerva 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.

Feature | Retrospective: Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 & 2

Rise and shine.

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.

Feature | Valve Interview: Gabe Newell Isn't The Boss of Me

Jason Holtman gives a peek inside Valve's unique structure

Opinion | Why Devs Owe You Nothing

When does a game belong to its fans rather than its creators?

Interview | Valve's Doug Lombardi

Chatting about Portal and whether Orange Box will return.

Interview | Opening the Valve

Part 2: On Warren Spector, Alyx, and the importance of playtesting.

Interview | Opening the Valve

Gabe Newell and co. on Hollywood, Episode One and future expansions.

Preview | Half-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.

Preview | Half-Life 2

Could the gravity gun lift the Xbox?

Preview | Half-Life 2

The original game had a decent Half-Life, and this one looks like it might too...

Preview | E3 2003: Half-Life 2

Three words: Oh. My. God.