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Half-Life 2 is getting a huge 20th Anniversary Update.

Half-Life 2 is getting a major update in celebration of the classic title’s 20th anniversary. In addition to Steam Workshop support directly within the game, Valve has fixed bugs and restored some content, added new graphics settings, updated gamepad controls and a whole lot more.

https://www.half-life.com/en/halflife2/20th

#halflife2 #20th #anniversary #update #valve #retro #gaming #art #engineer #media #tech #news
Valve is now including the Episode One and Episode Two expansions with the base game. They’ll be accessible from the Half-Life 2 menu, and Valve says that “you will automatically advance to the next expansion after completing each one.” You’ll also be able to access the Steam Workshop within the Extras menu, which means you’ll no longer have to leave the game to enable mods.

If you want to access the older version of Half-Life 2, that’s still an option: you’ll just have to roll back to “a publicly visible Beta branch named ‘steam_legacy’” and grab the “Pre-20th Anniversary Build,” Valve says.
[ImageSource: Valve]

Valve says it also made massive updates to Half-Life 2’s maps, which will fix “longstanding bugs, restore content and features lost to time, and improve the quality of a few things like lightmap resolution and fog.” There’s a new option to play with the original launch day blood and fire effects as well, and Valve has updated Half-Life 2’s gamepad controls to “match” last year’s Half-Life 1 anniversary update.

<https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23965754/half-life-25th-anniversary-update>

And finally Valve added 3.5 hours of new developer commentary within the game. The company also is printing an expanded second edition of the Raising the Bar book about the game’s development, which includes “the Half-Life 2 development story, with never-before-seen concept art from Episode One and Episode Two, along with ideas and experiments for the third episode that never came to be.” The book will return to print in 2025.

Maybe soon we’ll get Half-Life 3? Maybe?


Mozilla's Firefox Browser turns 20. :firefox:

Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. Mozilla celebrated its 20th anniversary of Firefox with new and upcoming features like tab previews, marking up PDFs, tab grouping and Mozilla's exploration of AI, via mozilla.ai, gets more cautious support.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/132.0/whatsnew/

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Mozilla is also thinking about how AI will change how people browse the web. There, the organization is mostly looking at giving people choice. It’s starting to build some smaller models into the browser already, mostly around translation, but with Firefox 130, it also introduced a model that automatically adds alt text for PDF images, for example. For all of this work with AI models, Mozilla plans to follow the Open Source Initiative’s guidance for what constitutes an open source model.

<https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/help-us-improve-our-alt-text-generation-model/>
The movement (advocacy for choice, privacy and transparency) continues. But web browsers and the battle for browser market share no longer lead that movement, according to a former Mozilla executive.

"Firefox turns 20 today!" said CEO Laura Chambers in a social media post. "It’s so inspiring to think of all we’ve achieved together to keep the internet open and people-first. Firefox has always been more than just a browser – it’s a movement powered by those who believe in choice, privacy and transparency. Thank you to our community and everyone who has contributed to this impact, and helped make Firefox what it is today."

<https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chamberslaura_firefox-turns-20-today-its-so-inspiring-activity-7260782133881810945-zkp8/>