Lead writer Marc Laidlaw revealed in the newly-added Half-Life 2 developer commentary ... microwave too many times in the second chapter. The Episode 2 commentary gives us more to go off however ...

The closest you physically get to this inaccessible river in the finished game is in the waterways near the start, and again in chapter 10. City 17 in earlier versions of Half-Life 2 had more emphasis ...

Cameron Faulkner (he/him) is Polygon’s commerce editor. He’s a product expert who began writing about tech and gaming in 2013, and migrated from The Verge in 2023. The demo is roughly two ...

Following projects like Half-Life 1 remake Black Mesa and spin-off Half-Life: Alyx, Half-Life 2 returned with fresh updates from Steam celebrating its 20th anniversary last autumn and, as of ...

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 ...

Playing through the Ravenholm chapter and the previously creepy survival horror section from the original Half-Life 2 becomes genuinely unsettling as you see shadows react and move realistically ...

Early builds of Valve's Half-Life 2 originally spent far more time in the sewers, so much so that it led straight back to the ...