Valve is not just giving away the Half-Life free, but they also updated the game! Almost like a Nightdive remaster even.
They included Uplink — the original standalone Half-Life demo
Made the menu look like the much cooler original non-Steam version
New deathmatch maps and skins
Many small visual and gameplay improvements
And lastly increased the engine limits for the modders
We launched Half-Life on November 19th, 1998. We are very proud of what we built back then and we remain extremely grateful for the community of players who have been enjoying it ever since. The game hasn't received as much attention in recent years as many other titles in our catalog, so we...
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