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 one of the best loved FPS games in the genre’s history, even with its cliffhanger story still unresolved nearly two decades since its last episodic expansion launched ...

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 ...

Half-Life 2 is now getting the same treatment, once again led by fans, with Half-Life 2 RTX. While the team initially debuted its effort towards the end of last year, it still needed more time in ...

It has been more than 20 years since the first time Half Life 2 was released. With no Half Life 3 on the horizon, fans and enthusiasts are finding interesting ways to build a modern-looking Half ...

After what feels like eons of waiting, the Half-Life 2 RTX demo is finally here. You can try two levels of the fan-made enhancement to Valve’s epochal FPS right now, turning the classic shooter ...

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Half-Life 2, the RTX DLC on Steam is now available for free. This update is built on NVIDIA’s RTX Remix platform and brings a fresh look to the classic game by adding real-time ray tracing ...

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The main demo we’ve seen over the past year has been Half-Life 2 RTX — a fantastic-looking upgrade to my favorite game of all time. But trailers are one thing. How well does it perform?

Half-Life 2 RTX might not be that creative, but it is an acceptably faithful remaster, which is an achievement in itself given how much has been swapped out and spruced up. At the same time, all these ...

Half-Life 2 RTX now has a demo available on Steam for those of you who want to check out what Orbifold Studios have done to the Valve classic with ray tracing. You do need to own Half-Life 2 to be ...