It's always a remaster of a classic game bathed in ray-traced lighting, usually to the detriment of the atmosphere and vision of the original release. Half-Life 2 RTX is something different.

A 20-year-old game that suddenly overwhelms the very best GPUs: The demo of "Half-Life 2 RTX" is now available ... The game is completely rendered using ray tracing. Ray tracing is a rendering ...

The Half-Life 2 RTX demo includes enhanced textures, assets, and ray-traced lighting. Fans eagerly anticipate Half-Life 2 RTX ...

In a video sponsored by Nvidia, PCWorld’s Adam goes through the new ray tracing and graphical enhancements and talks with the developers who implemented them. Half-Life 2 RTX is a free upgrade ...

In the finished Half-Life 2, there's a section where Gordon and Alyx are fighting through City 17 trying to reach Barney, and come to a destroyed bridge. You end up dropping down to the canal before a ...

Ray tracing’s fundamental similarity to real life makes it an extremely ... Metro Exodus: GeForce RTX Real-Time Ray Traced Global Illumination Demo #2 Because of that, half-measures like only ...

Half-Life RTX features full ray tracing and limited path tracing, Nvidia DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation, remastered assets, AI-enhanced RTX Neural Rendering, and ultra-responsive gameplay with ...

It does this by emitting a high energy electromagnetic wave called a gamma ray. Gamma radiation does not consist of particles but as short wavelength, high energy electromagnetic radiation emitted ...

Subscribers to the cloud gaming service are able to jump into some newly-released fan favorites, a classic from Double Fine Productions, the recently released Half-Life 2 RTX Demo, and more this week.

Decades after its release, players are still finding new secrets in early builds of Half-Life 2 and other Valve games. As it turns out, one early build of Half-Life 2 connected the iconic opening ...