TL;DR: Half-Life 2 RTX, a remaster by Orbifold Studios using NVIDIA's RTX Remix toolkit, reimagines the classic game with ray-traced visuals, new models, and advanced technologies like RTX Neural ...

NVIDIA's RTX Remix is a promising tool for improving old games, but remastering requires more than just turning on ray tracing. The Half-Life 2 RTX Remix demo has ...

Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project is a community remaster of one of the highest-rated games of all time, Valve’s Half-Life 2.

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, ...

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 ...

Just days ahead of its 20-year anniversary, Half-Life 2 has a new trailer for its RTX remaster. Valve’s influential first-person shooter launched on Steam on November 16, 2004. Ever since then, and ...

At GDC 2025, Nvidia shared a progress update on the Half-Life 2 RTX mod, and part of that was an announcement that a free demo of the visually-overhauled title was coming on March 18. That day has ...

20 years since it was first released, Half-Life 2 remains one of the best single-player FPS games in history. Even as someone who's comparatively skeptical when it comes to Valve's work, I can't deny ...

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 ...

Ahead of the Game Developers Conference next week, Nvidia shared more details on the power of its latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 50 Series graphics cards. Jason Paul, vice president of the GeForce Platform ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

Matin has been writing about video games for years and loves to find deeper meaning in his games. Beyond the scope of light, beyond the reach or dark, what could possibly await him? Yet, he seeks it ...