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Valve Updates ‘Half-Life’ on 25th Anniversary, Grab It for Free for a Limited Time [Video]

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With Half-Life turning 25 today, Valve has dropped a little something special in the form of a major update for the classic FPS. Touted as “the definitive version” of Half-Life, this 25th Anniversary Update adds a whack of goodies, including widescreen support, Steam Deck support, updated graphics settings and more. Not only that, but if you haven’t already, you can grab Half-Life for free on Steam for a limited time!

Alongside graphical updates, lighting fixes and controller support, the 25th Anniversary Update includes added content from Half-Life: Uplink (the 1998 demo of Half-Life), as well as four new multiplayer maps. Valve has also restored some content for “the true nostalgia-seekers”, which includes the original main menu artwork, along with some early prototype player models from the alpha builds of the game.

Still not enough? Valve also got the original development team together for a 25th anniversary retrospective, which you can see below.

Valve has also archived the “Pre-25th Anniversary Build” of Half-Life to a publicly visible Beta branch named “steam_legacy”, just in case you decide to delve into the game prior to this new definitive version.

And as mentioned, for the rest of the weekend, you can grab Half-Life for free to keep. It’s just the base game, so the Opposing Force and Blue Shift expansions aren’t included. Those, however, alongside several other entries in the series, are heavily discounted until November 21, so get moving!

 

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Survios Announces VR Title ‘Alien: Rogue Incursion’, Coming This Year [Trailer]

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Remember back in 2022 when developer Survios had announced that they were teaming up with 20th Century Games to develop a new Alien title? Well seeing as it’s Alien Day, Survios has announced their brand-new VR title, Alien: Rogue Incursion. Coming “Holiday 2024” to the PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest 3, Rogue Incursion will feature an original story that “fully surrounds players within the terrors of the Alien universe”.

Details on the game are light at the moment, but the official site describes the upcoming title as being “designed by Alien fans for Alien fans”, with Survios aiming to craft a “technically advanced, and frightfully immersive Alien virtual reality game.”

Seeing as Alien: Isolation never got official VR support when it was released, this is obviously a welcome announcement. In the meantime, if you’re keen to experience an Alien game in VR, you can always check out the fan-made mod for Alien: Isolation by Nibre_, which allows both the Steam and Epic Games Store version of Alien: Isolation to be played using the Oculus.

And speaking of Alien: Isolation, as you might expect, it’s got a hefty 80% discount going on at the moment on Steam until May 1. So if you still haven’t grabbed it after all these years, this is as good a time as any.

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