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

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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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Counter-Strike 2 is coming later this year

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In a somewhat surprising announcement, Valve has announced that Counter-Strike 2 is really happening, and more amazingly, will arrive in just a few months' time. It's been over a decade since the last iteration of the multiplayer behemoth was released, namely, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive - and Valve promises the next game will feature the largest technical leap forward in the game's history. In another interesting move, Valve has declared that
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Portal64 – Demaking a classic on Nintendo

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There's a great tech demo that's just hit YouTube showing early development work on an N64 version of the classic Portal. Despite being over a quarter of a century old, Nintendo's classic hardware is still popular and homebrew demakes are all the rage. YouTuber James Lambert has uploaded progress, showing off working portals, physics, cube objects, and nostalgic graphics. For those that want to see how it's done, you can
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