Half-Life 2

Also known as: Half-Life II


Sep 10, 2008
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Gordon Freeman Spotted in CERN Test Chamber "Ever watch the same disaster movie twice and find yourself trying to warn off the actors?"
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Sep 9, 2008
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Half-Life 2 SourceForts 1.9.4 Released This mod from the Source Forts Team blends Deathmatch and Capture the Flag and adds other custom changes to the mix.
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Aug 4, 2008
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Jailbreak: Source Official Map Pack and New Screens Jailbreak is a Half-Life 2 modification similar to Team Deathmatch for Half-Life 2, but with a difference: two teams, two jails. When you kill a member of the opposite team, they respawn, locked up inside your jail. When a member of your team is killed, they respawn inside the enemy jail. Your objective is to imprison every member of the enemy team. The twist is that you can break out members of your own team, by fighting your way to the enemy jail and opening the doors. The game goes back and forth until one team is entirely locked up, the losers executed (in a variety of customised ways), then the next round begins.
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May 30, 2008
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Valve Announces Steam Cloud - Indefinite Online Save Game, Replay Video, Kill-cam Storage, and other features Valve's been quite busy getting ready to roll out some impressive updates to their games and Steam in general:

"Valve today announced Steam Cloud, a free Steam system that will retain users' saved games and configuration files indefinitely.

Half-Life and Half-Life 2 will be the first games to support the service....

The company is also working on several new Steam systems, including a driver auto-updater and calendar functionality.

Another feature in the works is a system-requirement checker. The program will analyze your hardware and compare it to multiple games, estimating your performance and recommending upgrades.

Valve is also considering storing replay videos and kill-cam screens from games such as Team Fortress 2 and Day of Defeat: Source. "
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Jan 18, 2008
PC News | Half-Life 2
18th Jan, 2008 [Warning: Like our Portal article from December, this piece features some pretty heady discourse, and also benefits from a visit from Mr. Narrative Theory. If that stuff makes you run screaming, then feel free to run screaming. Also, if you haven't completed Half-Life 2, leave now. This contains some inhuman spoilers.] Half-Life 2 is widely and rightly regarded as a modern classic. In terms of both gameplay and artistry there have been few, if any, games in the FPS genre which ... » Read More
Dec 31, 2007
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PC - Half-Life 2 - The Orange Box and 19 Games Available for $75 on Steam As if The Orange Box weren't already the best value in gaming, those who have yet to make the $50 plunge can get an even better deal through Valve's Steam service. For a mere $75 gamers can purchase Orange Box and 19 additional titles.

If you already have The Orange Box then you can still get some more Half-Life goodness by downloading the game's main tune, "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coultan at Amazon.com. The entire album is discounted by about $2, available at Amazon for $7.99.
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Dec 25, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - HL2 mod Black Mesa's Media Release 11 To celebrate Christmas, the Black Mesa team released a new batch of media for the upcoming Half-Life re-creation mod Black Mesa. Included within are a website re-vamp, new high-resolution screenshots, newly revealed areas, new weaponry, and the launch of a devblog.
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Dec 20, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
Dec 20, 2007 If you park on the streets of a major city like San Francisco, you know there's the risk that a starry-eyed young hooligan with the bold dream of stealing your stereo will smash in your window. GamesRadar US editor Tyler Wilde is well aware of this risk - his car has been broken into three times in the past year. What he didn't know is that not just his stereo is at risk. As an avid gamer and an angry citizen, he felt it was time to send a message to the window/ocarina smashing ... » Read More
Dec 19, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
Dec 19, 2007 One of the best things about gaming on the PC is that mods can breathe new life youre your older titles. Unfortunately, weeding out the good ones from the half-assed incomplete productions takes a ton of time. Luckily, weve picked out some of our favorite add-ons, conversions, and fan-made tweaks that will make your old games seem brand new. So dust off your library and read on for the best mods made by gamers for gamers. Just do us a small favor and dont click on the Naked tab if ... » Read More
Dec 1, 2007
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PC - Half-Life 2 - IGN Top 100 10-2 "The Top 100 Games of All Time!
Yes, friends, more than 30 editors located all over the world set aside their ages, allegiances and personal favorites to pick the hundred best videogames that the planet has ever seen! There was fighting, there was mayhem, and there was pizza -- lots and lots of pizza.

Now, some of you may proclaim, "but your list is different from the rankings you guys did in 2005!" Well, of course it is people. Plenty of fantastic games have been released since then, and we have plenty of new folks in our ranks to throw in their couple of cents. We're also not afraid to admit that our tastes change over time too."
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Nov 27, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
27 Nov, 2007 For a time of peace on earth, theres going to be a lot of stress and killing around this Christmas. Just think about this winters biggest games. Whether its COD4s visceral gunfire tearing apart wall and limb alike, the bloody back-stabbing business of the always-hounded Altair, or Kane and Lynch just being plain old sociopathic, the jovial festival of light and wonder really is looking like a quite brutal one this year. We need a way to combat this, and preferably one which ... » Read More
Nov 23, 2007
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PC - Half-Life 2 - Toronto Rebuilt In Half-Life 2 City 7: Toronto Conflict, is an action packed Half-Life 2 mod with a variety of unique levels and game play. Explore what has become of City 7 in areas like Dundas square, Eaton Center , Mel Lastman square, St. Michael's Hospital and TTC system under the Combine rule. This version features Gordon Freeman as the main character, stuck in Toronto due to a teleporting accident in Kleiner's lab. Try to escape this war torn city by finding any type of teleporting technology and send him back to City 17.

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Nov 15, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Top 10 Best Selling PC Games For November 3 The NPD Group has released the latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, this time for the week ending November 3. It seems that despite bad reviews, Flagship Studios have done something right, as people buy Hellgate: London despite many reviewers' opinion that it needed a few more months in production.

1. Hellgate: London - Namco/EA
2. Hellgate: London Collectors Edition - Namco/EA
3. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange Box - Valve/EA
4. Age Of Empires III: Asian Dynasties - Microsoft
5. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage - Electronic Arts
6. Nancy Drew: Legend Of The Crystal Skull - Her Interactive
7. Flight Simulator X: Acceleration - Microsoft
8. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. The Witcher - Atari
10. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
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Oct 27, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Orange Box 360 update released! (Again!) "The second Orange Box 360 update has been released by Valve! This time, the focus is primarily on Team Fortress 2. What, exactly, have they changed?

- Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer.
- Improved overall game performance.
- Arranged search results to favor preferred host conditions.
- Improved searching for ranked games.
- Addressed a possible false report of too little storage space on larger hard drives". - Gamernode
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Oct 25, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Half-Life 2 CSS Sci Fi v2.1 Mod CSS SCI FI is a single-player mod for Half-Life 2. Using the latest version of SMOD, which is included, the mod puts the player through 27 intense combat missions set in Counter-Strike: Source maps. Each map contains a unique scripted scenario which is enhanced by random scripting so that the game is never the same twice. Players will fight everything from Striders to slave Vortigaunts, plus a range of Combine enemies armed with many new weapons.
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Oct 9, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Rumor: Valve wanted $1 million advance for Half-Life 2 for Mac Why doesn't Valve care about Mac gaming? Gabe Newell says "there's never any follow through on any of the things [Apple says] they're going to do." Inside Mac Gaming has a slightly different interpretation on that, claiming that Valve's terms for bringing Half-Life 2 to the Mac OS involved a $1 million advance payment from whomever was handling the port, a big buy-in for a game that would sell exclusively to the Mac gamer demographic.
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Sep 27, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
Sept 27, 2007 Gabe Newell has said Valve still has plenty of Half-Life to mine as the developer slowly creeps toward the grand Episode Three finale, which it's expected will conclude the story arc established in the original game. "...[T]here's specific stories and character arcs or plot lines that we know terminate", Newell recently told us. "But... we have this bible that covers a lot, and there's a lot of interesting stories to tell." We'd like to get our hands on that… Newell went ... » Read More
Sep 11, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
Sept 11, 2007 Ah, personal definitive moments from the Half-Life games. Whether it be the 'Test Chamber' sequence that spawned the original Freeman adventure or Barney chucking you the crowbar in Half-Life 2 which sent a little shiver down the spine, we all have our most favourite sequences from Valve's first-person shooter series. But what's the developer's? Well, it may surprise you to learn... "I think when you're playing catch with Dog with the gravity gun. That was where a bunch of ... » Read More
Sep 7, 2007
PC News from N4G | Half-Life 2
PC - Half-Life 2 - Fortress Forever Mod (HL2) to be Released This Month Fortress Forever Mod Team Wrote: "These next few months are going to be great for TF fans and halflife2 gamers alike. It is with great pleasure that we announce Fortress Forever will be released this September, and of course it will be free to all halflife 2 owners :). The game will release with 10 core maps featuring 6 different game modes centering around capture the flag, and capture and defend gameplay. Spread the word and get ready for action!"
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Jul 13, 2007
PC News | Half-Life 2
Half-Life, developer Valve's multimillion dollar baby, has inevitably been targeted by movie-making hit-sniffers in the past. And with good reason - the series is a powerfully crafted chain of adventures, with real atmosphere and character. The problem, though, is Gordon. "[A movie] project always crashes up against the hard reality that Gordon Freeman is a conduit for the player's senses," explains Marc Laidlaw, one of Valve's longest serving writers. "As soon as you try to turn him into an ... » Read More
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Half-Life 2

Published by: Electronic Arts
Developed by: Valve
Multiplayer Modes:
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