Valve literally gives Half-Life away now, but 27 years ago it was carefully crushing its angry pirates: "None of them had actually bought the game"
Half-Life is $2 on Steam at the time of writing. That's $2 in 2025 money - a far cry from the 1998 money we had when the game ...
I Stayed at the Real-Life White Lotus in Thailand. Here’s What It Was Like.
Visiting the Four Seasons Koh Samui is like being dropped in the middle of the hit TV show, but it comes at a (hefty) price.
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo takes five times more HDD space than Half-Life 2 itself
The Half-Life 2 RTX demo is finally here, but you'll need over 40 GB of PC space if you want to play the enhancement of Valve's FPS.
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Half-Life 2 RTX is very impressive, but that’s just how I remember the game looking
Back when Valve released Half-Life 2 in 2004, it was probably the best-looking game I’d ever seen. The game’s pre-baked ...
Half-Life: Alyx, VR’s first — and hopefully not last — killer app, turns 5
It’s trite to say this five years after launch, but Half-Life: Alyx felt like a door being kicked open, revealing what’s ...
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The Dramatic Half-Life Deal That Altered The Fate Of Valve Forever
The terms of the deal, Harrington said, was that Valve would fund all but $1 million of the development costs of Half-Life's sequels, with Sierra retaining IP rights and giving Valve back 15% of ...
Hands-on: Half-Life 2 with RTX-powered graphics looks gorgeous
PCWorld's Alex got to check out the new Half-Life 2 RTX on the latest Nvidia hardware and chat with the developers who made ...
Half-Life 2: RTX Remix - Nvidia Devs Explain How It Works
The hotly anticipated Half-Life 2 RTX Remix launches its demo today, March 18, on Steam, and IGN sat down with its developers from NVIDIA and Orbifold Studios, to discuss how they reimagined Valve’s ...
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My Morning Jacket Share Video for New Song “Half a Lifetime”
Previously My Morning Jacket shared the album’s first single, “Time Wasted,” via a music video. Then they released its second ...
Getting Half-Life 2 to work on 8 MB of VRAM means turning it into an eerily befitting voidscape: 'there were absolutely no effects left'
Not that I wish to imply that you have been sleeping on the fact that Half-Life 2 (HL2) can run on 1,000x less VRAM than ...
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Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention
At least half a dozen articles already removed are about the Holocaust and now have the word “DEI” in their URL. The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, told CNN that “we ...
Former Valve exec recounts the meeting where Half-Life's publisher almost killed the iconic FPS: "Half-Life would quietly die. I was stunned"
Ex-Valve CMO Monica Harrington, in a recent panel from the Game Developer's Conference, once again remembered an era where ...