It has been more than 20 years since the first time Half Life 2 was released. With no Half Life 3 on the horizon, fans and enthusiasts are finding interesting ways to build a modern-looking Half ...

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Hey, you can finally try out Half-Life 2 RTX. It's been a long ol' wait for this one, the team of modders/developers at Orbifold Studios have spent a good few years on this already, but at least ...

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After what feels like eons of waiting, the Half-Life 2 RTX demo is finally here. You can try two levels of the fan-made enhancement to Valve’s epochal FPS right now, turning the classic shooter ...

Half-Life 2, the RTX DLC on Steam is now available for free. This update is built on NVIDIA’s RTX Remix platform and brings a fresh look to the classic game by adding real-time ray tracing ...

They can even add DLSS and full ray/path tracing to their games. The main demo we’ve seen over the past year has been Half-Life 2 RTX — a fantastic-looking upgrade to my favorite game of all time.

by Alan Velasco — Monday, March 17, 2025, 02:40 PM EDT Half-Life, one of the best first person shooters of all time, got its flowers with the amazing Black Mesa remake made by fans with Valve ...