TL;DR: Half-Life 2 celebrates its 20th anniversary with Valve releasing a major update that includes Episodes One and Two, a new 3.5-hour developer commentary, integrated Steam Workshop support, and ...

Half-Life 2, the acclaimed first-person shooter from Valve, is getting a remaster in the form of a mod that will add ray-traced graphics to the game, Nvidia announced Tuesday ahead of Gamescom 2023.

In Half-Life 2 you again pick up the crowbar of research scientist Gordon Freeman, who finds himself on an alien-infested Earth being picked to the bone, its resources depleted, its populace dwindling ...

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 ...

Gordon Freeman's classic toxic crowbar adventure is about to get even more realistic, as the Half-Life 2 RTX Remix project is working on adding Nvidia neural rendering to the game, in addition to ray ...

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Most of your writers up here at HotHardware are old farts, so we can scarcely imagine a Steam account without the original Half-Life. Back in the day, most of us owned boxed copies of the game, and ...

Nvidia has made a flurry of announcements today at the 2025 Game Developers Conference, including additions to its RTX gaming feature set such as as neural shading technology and also the official ...

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It's nearly Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, and if that makes you feel old, you probably are. But good news, Nvidia is giving away a custom Half-Life 2 themed RTX 4080 Super Founders Edition to make ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2 by giving away a custom GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER graphics card featuring the Half-Life 2 logo and Gordon Freeman. The card has 10240 CUDA ...

One lucky enthusiast has found and repaired an ultra-rare Mercury 'brick' of classic 3dfx Voodoo 2 GPUs. And yes, it plays... Half-Life. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in ...