Valve celebrates Half-Life 2’s twentieth anniversary with an enormous replace

It’s Half-Life 2’s twentieth anniversary, and in celebration, Valve has launched a particular replace that provides the Episode One and Episode Two expansions to the bottom sport so you possibly can play all of it straight via, together with a two-hour documentary, developer commentary, and rather more. The sport can also be free on Steam till November 18. Valve’s announcement itself is an interactive expertise — seize the gravity gun on the backside of the web page and you may decide up absolutely anything on the display and toss it round (together with that can, which you’ll be able to then put within the trash).

“Each map in Half-Life 2 has been seemed over by Valve degree designers to repair longstanding bugs, restore content material and options misplaced to time, and enhance the standard of some issues like lightmap decision and fog,” the staff says. The discharge notes are intensive, together with updates to the graphics settings, gamepad controls and the Steam Deck menu. Valve’s additionally printed some old demo videos from Half-Life 2‘s growth.

An image of two orange books side by side showing the front and back covers of the 2025 second edition of Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar

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The anniversary celebration additionally brings excellent news for anybody who didn’t handle to snag a replica of Elevating the Bar, the 2004 behind-the-scenes guide that’s since change into a coveted collector’s merchandise: an expanded second version is coming in 2025. This new model provides idea artwork from Episode One and Episode Two, plus “concepts and experiments for the third episode that by no means got here to be.”

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