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Half-Life: Alyx is a 2020 virtual reality (VR) first-person shooter game developed and published by Valve. It was released for Windows and Linux , with support for most PC-compatible VR headsets . Set five years before Half-Life 2 (2004), players control Alyx Vance on a mission to seize a superweapon belonging to the alien Combine .
Dota 2 (port), [12] The Lab (limited), Artifact, Dota Underlords, Half-Life: Alyx, Counter-Strike 2, Deadlock Proprietary The first game using Source 2, Dota 2 , was ported over from the original Source engine.
Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.It is the developer of the software distribution platform Steam and the game franchises Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and Dota.
Half-Life 2 and the games following it introduce a new, more focused cast of characters fighting the oppressive Combine Empire. This includes Alyx Vance, a prominent member of the Resistance and the daughter of former Black Mesa scientist Eli Vance. Alyx is the protagonist of Half-Life: Alyx.
It debuted as the successor to GoldSrc in 2004 with the releases of Half-Life: Source, Counter-Strike: Source, and Half-Life 2. Other notable third-party games using Source include Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, Dear Esther, and The Stanley Parable. Valve released incremental updates to the engine during its lifetime.
Half-Life 2 was followed by the free extra level Lost Coast (2005) and the episodic sequels Episode One (2006) and Episode Two (2007); all were compiled together and made playable from the base game as of November 2024. In 2020, after canceling Episode Three and several further Half-Life projects, Valve released a prequel, Half-Life: Alyx.
Delta is a total conversion mod, meaning that the game uses none or almost none of the resources used in the base game, though it takes place contemporaneously to the events of Half-Life. [5] The game is set in the technical engineer complex Delta Base, an underground base in Nevada , a similar facility to the Black Mesa Research Facility ...
Plans for a successor to the original Source engine began following the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two in 2007. [1] [2] The first engine tech demo was created in 2010 by remaking a map from Left 4 Dead 2. [2] Images of this were leaked onto the internet in early 2014. [3]