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Get the original Half-Life for free today plus 25th Anniversary Update

Half-Life is now unbelievably 25 years old, and to celebrate, publisher Valve is giving the game away for free today on Steam, along with releasing a new 25th-anniversary update for the game. The quality of life updates include:• Half-Life Uplink - a mini-campaign that was originally released for magazines and hardware manufacturers• Four new multiplayer maps• New graphic options, including widescreen, UI scaling, texture and lighting fixes, and Linux software
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Half-Life Ravenholm – New footage of cancelled game

New footage of the cancelled Half-Life game dubbed Ravenholm has now surfaced online as part of a documentary uploaded to YouTube channel NoClip. The video contains about an hour of footage, taken very early on in the development cycle. Arkane Studios, the team behind hits such as Deathloop, Dishonored, and Prey, were behind the full-game expansion of Half-Life 2's mining town level. Although early in development, there is a lot