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Deathmatch Classic – A free, official Half-Life mod by Valve that updates the multiplayer gameplay from id Software's Quake, featuring enhanced textures, models, and lighting. [4] It was released on June 7, 2001, [5] and included in an update to Half-Life a month later. [6] OS X and Linux ports of the Windows game were released through Steam ...
Minerva is an episodic series of single-player modifications ("mods") for Valve's Half-Life 2. The mod was created by Adam Foster. The plot and settings of Minerva are linked to Someplace Else, Foster's original map for Half-Life, and to Half-Life 2. The mod was released on Steam on April 30, 2013. [4] [5]
Black Mesa - A third-party recreation of Half-Life (1998) that was made in response to the release of Half-Life: Source (2004), a port of the original game to the Source engine. [2] Black Mesa originally released as a free mod in September 2012, and later had a full commercial release on Steam in March 2020. [3] [4]
Valve announced Half-Life 2 at E3 2003 with a release date of September of that year. They failed to meet the release date, leading to fan backlash. In October, the unfinished source code was published online, leading to more backlash and damage to the team's morale. Half-Life 2 was released on Steam on
A screenshot of Half-Life 2: Episode One. The high-dynamic-range rendering and Phong shading effects are evident. The Source 2006 branch was the term used for Valve's games using technology that culminated with the release of Half-Life 2: Episode One.
Half-Life 2: Episode Three is a canceled first-person shooter game developed by Valve. It was planned as the last in a trilogy of episodic games continuing the story of Half-Life 2 (2004). Valve announced Episode Three in May 2006, with a release planned for 2007.
As developing Half-Life 2 and the original Source engine simultaneously had created problems, Valve delayed development of a new Half-Life until Source 2 was complete. [ 28 ] In 2017, the Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw , released a short story that journalists speculated was a summary of the Episode Three plot. [ 26 ]
Over the following decade, numerous Half-Life games were canceled, including Episode Three, a version of Half-Life 3, and games developed by Junction Point Studios and Arkane Studios. In 2020, after years of speculation, Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, which was developed exclusively for virtual reality headsets.