News Valve Is Giving Away the Half-Life Games for Free

[Admin]

Valve made all of the "Half-Life" games free-to-play in anticipation of "Half-Life: Alyx."

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[NightHawkRMX]

Rrrr. I bought half-life 2 late last year. I should get a refund.

 

[ThatMouse]

Free to play until March is not the same as giving away.

 

[jimmysmitty]

; it's not like anyone expected the series to be relevant again after it went untouched for over a decade

The interesting thing is plenty of people, even myself, have been saying that VALVe was holding off as they like to use Half Life as a showcase of new ideas. Half Life was proof that you could run the Quake engine on Windows 95 and be a popular game. Half Life 2 was all about the physics and facial animations (that to this day are still fantastic). Episode one was showing off their new AI for Alyx and Episode 2 is massive on the upgraded physics, hence the collapsing train bridge in the beginning.

Most games are built around those ideas for VALVe. Its not really a big surprise they are launching a VR main title to really show off a full fledged VR game.