Back when Valve released Half-Life 2 in 2004, it was probably the best-looking game I’d ever seen. The game’s pre-baked ...

Hey, you can finally try out Half-Life 2 RTX. It's been a long ol' wait for this one, the team of modders/developers at Orbifold Studios have spent a good few years on this already, but at least ...

TL;DR: Half-Life 2 RTX is a remaster by Orbifold Studios using NVIDIA's RTX Remix, transforming the classic game with modern PBR objects and ray-tracing. The demo, available for GeForce RTX owners ...

Half-Life 2 is getting a "cutting-edge ray tracing" overhaul courtesy of Nvidia's RTX Remix modding tools, and there's a playable demo coming on 18th March ahead of a full release. As Nvidia ...

Something to look forward to: Nvidia has spent years showcasing how its ray tracing technology can enhance classic games like Quake 2 and Portal. As development continues on a fan-made Half-Life 2 ...

The hotly anticipated Half-Life 2 RTX Remix launches its demo today, March 18, on Steam, and IGN sat down with its developers from NVIDIA and Orbifold Studios, to discuss how they reimagined Valve ...

NVIDIA has set a March 18 launch date for the Half-Life 2 RTX Demo, which will be available as a free mod on Steam for all Half-Life 2 owners. This demo, created with the RTX Remix toolkit by ...

Not that I wish to imply that you have been sleeping on the fact that Half-Life 2 (HL2) can run on 1,000x less VRAM than ...

Half-Life 2 RTX Remix isn’t for weak rigs. Even an RTX 5090 / Ryzen 9800X3D system might get under 30fps at 4K before applying DLSS 4. With it, Nvidia suggests an RTX 5070 might be enough for a ...

A YouTuber has successfully run Half-Life 2 on the 3D Phantom XP 2800 with just 8MB of memory, sacrificing most if not all textures, lighting, shadows, and other effects.

It was his unmistakable style that defined Half-Life 2's City 17 and Dishonored’s Dunwall, two of the most distinctive and unforgettable locations in game history. We spoke to people who knew ...