Soon you'll be able to don Gordon Freeman's HEV suit in full ray-traced glory, smashing your trusty crowbar into headcrabs with realistic shadows and reflections, as Nvidia has just announced that a ...

The long-awaited VR mod for Half-Life 2 (2004) is available for free in beta starting today, bringing to the iconic Valve title a near-native level of VR immersion we’ve been waiting for. In case you ...

Given that it was such a genre-defining game, Valve had been surprisingly hushed this week despite it being the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2. Consider that silence well and truly broken now, as it ...

If Half-Life: Alyx left you with an itch to revisit its seminal 2004 predecessor, now you can do so in virtual reality. On Friday, a group of fans known as the Source VR Mod Team released Half-Life 2: ...

At GDC 2025, Nvidia shared a progress update on the Half-Life 2 RTX mod, and part of that was an announcement that a free demo of the visually-overhauled title was coming on March 18. That day has ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The Steam listing for the mod is here, and it claims to be broadly compatible with wired VR headsets that include ...

It’s not the dream surprise many were hoping for, but once you realize what’s on offer, you’ll take it. To celebrate 25 years since the launch of the immortal Half-Life on November 19, 1998, Valve has ...

What just happened? In 2017, former Half-Life series writer Marc Laidlaw published a thinly veiled draft of what would have been Half-Life 2: Episode 3's plot. Although Laidlaw's departure from Valve ...