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All the latest Half-Life news for 2026: updates, patches, DLC, discounts and events. Fresh game news every day on VGTimes.
A Sealed Copy of Half-Life Sold for Record Money Among PC Games — Here's How Much It Went For
The collectible video game market has made headlines again, and this time the spotlight fell on the iconic Half-Life. A factory-sealed copy of the 1998 shooter sold at auction for a record sum for any PC game — though if you're used to news about console games fetching millions, the final price tag will probably surprise you with its modesty.
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June 29, 2026
Portal 2’s lead designer reveals why Gabe Newell stepped away from game development after 2011
Gabe Newell is one of the most influential figures in the gaming industry. As the co-founder and president of Valve Corporation, he stood behind the creation of Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, and Dota 2, while the launch of Steam in 2003 fundamentally changed how millions of players buy and run games. However, the last title where Newell was credited as a producer was Portal 2 in 2011. So what happened?
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April 8, 2026
The developer of Baby Steps explained why he abandoned the Half-Life lessons and decided to «mock» the players
When creating Baby Steps, the developers deliberately ignored the rules that Half-Life brought to the gaming industry. It got to the point where even the testers couldn't understand the logic of the game. This was told by designer Gabe Cuzzillo.
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April 7, 2026
A Free Half-Life Boomer Shooter Announced — Demo Now Available
Half-Life 3 has yet to be announced, but fans have something else to look forward to. Half-Life: Element 64 has been revealed on Steam — a fan-made mod that reimagines the cult classic in the spirit of mid-1990s old-school shooters, deliberately evoking the era of CRT monitors, floppy disks, and early mobile phones.
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November 30, 2025
Enthusiast Turns Half-Life and Fallout 3 Scenes into Eerily Realistic Photos
Images created by a Threads user catsoupai have gone viral across the web, showcasing Half-Life and Fallout 3 scenes transformed into eerily realistic photos. Many of the images are nearly indistinguishable from actual photographs.
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April 17, 2025
BAFTA Game Awards Reveal TOP Most Influential Games of All Time: Doom Takes 2nd Place, Half-Life 4th
In preparation for the 21st BAFTA Game Awards ceremony (which will take place on April 8), a global player vote was conducted to determine the most influential video game of all time.
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April 3, 2025
Black Mesa: Military Story Mod Released
A team of enthusiasts has released the full version of their story-driven modification, Black Mesa: Military, which allows players to experience the events of the first Half-Life from the perspective of a marine. You can download it here.
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January 12, 2025
New Trailer for Half-Life: Blue Shift and Opposing Force Fan Remaster Released
The modding team Tripmine Studios has presented a new trailer for Operation: Black Mesa. The mod is designed to restore the add-ons of Half-Life: Opposing Force and Blue Shift on the Source engine, as it was with the fan Black Mesa.
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December 30, 2024
Top 10 Best Mods of 2024 Chosen by Players
ModDB users have voted for the best modifications of 2024. Topping the list is the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod, which is based on S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.
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December 29, 2024
AI Generates a Vision of a Half-Life Movie
YouTube channel Sora AI, recently responsible for an AI-generated vision of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. film, has released a new video imagining what a Half-Life movie might look like.
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November 23, 2024
Beta version of the iconic Half-Life has been made publicly available
Recently, models and animations from the beta version of the original Half-Life have leaked onto the Internet, but a real treasure was discovered the other day. Former developer and tester Chad Jessup found a disk with an early build of the legendary shooter, which is now available to everyone.
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September 22, 2024
Rumor: Valve to release a major update for Half-Life 2
Valve is likely going to release a major update for Half-Life 2 in honor of the game's 20th anniversary. This is hinted at by a fresh build of the game found in SteamDB.
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August 18, 2024
Rumor: New Half-Life 3 data has appeared online
Yesterday we wrote about a Valve project codenamed HLX, which may be related to the Half-Life universe. The day before, users found information in the resume of the voice actress hinting at work on the sequel to Half-Life 2.
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August 5, 2024
Rumor: details of a new game in the Half-Life universe have emerged
Insider Tyler McVicker, who has repeatedly shared information about Valve projects and even correctly leaked details of Deadlock long before the leak, spoke about a project codenamed HLX, which could be a game in the Half-Life series.
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August 4, 2024
“Valve level animations”: a Half-Life 2 fan showed what the third episode of the game could look like
While waiting for any news about the next part of Half-Life, fans of the series are not sitting idly by and trying to imagine what the sequel could become. An enthusiast from the YouTube channel Unknown Dino released a trailer in which he showed what the third episode of Half-Life 2 could look like.
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June 2, 2024
Ready or Not developers became victims of hackers — over four terabytes of data were stolen
The studio behind the first-person shooter Ready or Not lost more than four terabytes of data due to a hacker attack. For comparison, the volume of the sensational leak from Insomniac Games was only one and a half terabytes.
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April 18, 2024
Animations and models from the beta version of Half-Life leaked online
Reddit users have at their disposal animations and models from an early version of Half-Life. According to the anonymous person who uploaded them, the leak occurred in early 2024 directly from Valve.
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April 12, 2024