Half-Life 2

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Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance
Early plans for Half-Life 2 sound wild, including visits to cities like Chicago and LA, several Combine bases, and a sequence where a plane crashed into a skyrise that was cut after 9/11

By Jody Macgregor Published

News "You have chosen, or been chosen, to relocate to one of our finest remaining urban centers. And then, go to like three other cities."

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Half-Life 2 review

By Jim Rossignol Published

Gravity Fun PC Gamer's original 2004 review of Half-Life 2.

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Gabe Newell in a Valve promotional video, on a yacht.
A summer intern once saved Valve from a near-fatal lawsuit after a publisher 'decided to go World War 3' on it, and it all hinged on one email

By Ted Litchfield Published

news "The company was pretty close to going bankrupt, I was pretty close to going personally bankrupt⁠—we went all in, there was no money left"

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The G-Man looking at the camera.
More people are playing Half-Life 2 now than at any point since Steam started keeping track

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Not bad for a 20-year-old game.

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Render of the new Half-Life 2: Raising the Bar art book, with an orange cover featuring a zoomed-in Lambda symbol spread over the front, back, and spine, all in a field of bone-white office supplies neatly arranged in a grid.
Valve is re-releasing Half-Life 2's 'Raising the Bar' art book after nearly 20 years out of print and adding new sections about all three HL2 episodes

By Ted Litchfield Published

news It'll have concept art for Episode One and Two, as well as "ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be."

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Early version of Alyx Vance in an alpha build of Half-Life 2
Valve has released lost footage of Half-Life 2's earliest public demo from 2000, a missing link between HL1 and HL2 that already teased Episode 3's infamous Borealis

By Ted Litchfield Published

news Get Your Free TVs!

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Rebel throwing a toilet using the gravity gun
Half-Life 2: Deathmatch was the best multiplayer mode ever, or maybe I just think that because it's the only one I was ever good at

By Christopher Livingston Published

🚽 I was routinely at the top of the leaderboards because I was pretty good at throwing toilets.

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Prototype ice gun still from Half-Life 3: Episode 3.
Half-Life 2: Episode 3 would've included an ice gun with 'kind of like a Silver Surfer mode,' and Valve just released footage

By Tyler Wilde Published

news Also: "hoppy blobs." Here's our best glimpse at the cancelled Episode 3 yet.

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Gabe Newell in the 20th Anniversary Half-Life 2 Documentary.
'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'

By Tyler Wilde Published

news Half-Life 2: Episode 3 never happened because Newell "couldn't figure out why doing Episode 3 was pushing anything forward."

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20 years after Half-Life 2, Half-Life 3 remains the stuff of occult whisperings: Here's every rumor we've heard about the sequel that may or may not exist

By Andy Chalk Last updated

Half-Lies A look back at 20 years of not playing the most essential sequel in videogame history.

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