Valve just made Half-Life free and put out a massive update with cut content and an hour-long 'making of' documentary

pcgamer.com:

It's been 25 years since the release of the original Half-Life, one of the most important videogames of all time, and to celebrate the big birthday Valve has released a major new update to the game that adds new features and support for modern displays, restores cut and lost content, implements full Steam Deck support, and a whole bunch more—and it's giving the full game away to one and all until November 20.

Okay, fair enough: The odds are that you already own Half-Life, or maybe the Black Mesa remake, or at the very least you've played it at some point over the past half-century. But this is not the Half-Life of days long ago—I mean, it is, but there's a whole lot more going on courtesy of the 25th Anniversary Update.

«We launched Half-Life on November 19th, 1998,» Valve wrote. «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 thought this milestone was a great opportunity to spruce up the player experience and add some fun new ways to play the game.»

Here's the quick lowdown on what's in store:

The update also features a bunch of restored content including the original Half-Life main menu art, the OG Valve intro video, multiplayer maps and skins from the retail-exclusive Half-Life: Further Data expansion, and Ivan the Space Biker and Proto-Barney, the original lead characters from Half-Life alpha builds. That's right, folks, this is Gordon Freeman and Barney Calhoun as they were meant to be. Just imagine what kind of world we'd be living in today if this had stuck.

But wait! he shouted! That's not all! Valve also got the