But this change succeeded in doing what we wanted: Putting our characters front and center in the game." And that does make sense: The amount of effort Valve put into Half-Life 2's scanned faces ...

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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 ...

For example, characters in Half-Life 2 RTX will feature 30 times as many polygons as the original. A new tool called RTX Skin combines ray tracing and subsurface scattering, allowing ray-traced ...

Half-Life 2 RTX is a remaster and remake project from ... The team has painstakingly updated all textures, objects, and even characters while retaining the original art direction from Valve.

The artist worked as an art director on Half-Life 2, a visual designer on Dishonored, and a consultant on Fallout 4 and DOOM. Antonov's passing in 2025 was mourned by colleagues, with tributes ...

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 ...

Not only that, but if you already own Half-Life 2 (and sort that out if you don’t), the demo will be a free download. At a media briefing to announce the launch, Nvidia RTX project manager Nyle ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nvidia has confirmed that Half-Life 2 RTX will get a demo on March 18, giving us a glimpse of what this Valve classic would look like if it were ...

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 ...