Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update Offers Long-Lost Story Content, New Maps, Deck Support

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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.

Here's the full rundown on the rundown on the Half-Life 25th Anniversary content…

Half-Life Uplink

Originally released as a CD exclusive for magazines and hardware manufacturers, this mini-campaign was built by the Half-Life team right after the full game went gold. As this was many people's first experience with Half-Life, we thought it was time to bundle it with the main game -- no sound card purchase necessary.

Half-Life: Further Data

In 1999, Valve released a CD called Half-Life: Further Data at retail stores, and we're finally including much of that content including 3 multiplayer maps (Double Cross, Rust Mill, Xen DM) and multiplayer skins.

Restored Content

4 New Multiplayer Maps

UI Scaling Support For Higher Resolutions

The entire UI has been reworked to scale at larger screen sizes. We built most of this stuff for 640x480 CRTs and apparently some of you have upgraded since then.

Updated Graphics Settings

Play the game the way it looked in 1998, but on a modern monitor.

Steam Deck Support!

We finally put our game through our own “Verified” tests, and... we