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Half-Life, the little-known game about a monorail enthusiast who undergoes the most brutal job interview in history, reached its 25th birthday on Sunday. And Valve was in a surprisingly celebratory mood for a company that is normally as reticent as it is forward-looking. On its YouTube channel, Valve released a brand-new documentary that brought the original Half-Life team together for a captivating chew over its development.

Fans watching are intrigued about what happened with on the show. Has she left this season already? Here’s all you need to know.

Half-Life came out 25 years ago tomorrow and to celebrate Valve ahve released an anniversary update. It includes four new multiplayer maps, updated graphics settings, and fully verified Steam Deck support. It also includes some new multiplayer models and skins, including proto-Barney and the original design for Gordon Freeman, pictured above.

Valve has marked Half-Life’s 25th anniversary with several promotions and content drops, including an extensive new update for the original game.

Valve is celebrating the birthday of one of its most beloved games (and there are a lot of them to pick from) this weekend as it’s the, and the original game is getting a big update.

The hugely-influential Half-Life celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, and Valve is throwing the game quite the party. The just-announced Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update offers a ton of goodies, including “Half-Life Uplink,” a special demo including unique story content originally released as one of those CDs packed with game mags, “Half-Life: Further Data,” another disc released as a game store freebie, new multiplayer maps, updated UI, Steam Deck verification, and much more. Before we jump into all that though, Valve also dropped this nice little Half-Life documentary you can check out if you have an hour to spare some time.

World of Warcraft is celebrating its 19th anniversary. Expect anniversary gifts, special  daily event quests, several new historians, and additional discoveries along with new and returning items to collect.

Valve has released a new update for Half-Life to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Along with the legendary first-person shooter being available to claim free on Steam until November 20th, the update adds Steam Deck support, controller support and even the Half-Life: Uplink demo. If that weren’t enough, a one-hour documentary is live with the original development team. Check it out below.

The legendary Half-Life is 25 years old and just got a fresh coat of orange paint. Valve has released the 25th anniversary update, which adds a staggering amount of changes and content to Half-Life including more multiplayer maps, modernized visual options, and the once-magazine exclusive Uplink campaign.

For the 25th anniversary of the iconic Half-Life, developer/publisher Valve has released a documentary celebrating the monumental first-person shooter. In addition, the studio has released an update to the original “featuring quality of life fixes, restored content, and new multiplayer maps.” 

This massive update also adds new multiplayer maps, restores old contents, and fixes numerous bugs.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.