Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the release of Half-Life 2, we've gotten members of the HL2 team back to talk about the game's development, how we almost ran out of money, what it was like when we were hacked, what happened when we were sued by our publisher, the birthplace of Steam, and much more.

Check out the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Update, with developer commentary, steam workshop support, tons of fixes and quality of life updates, and more at half-life.com/halflife2/20th

0:00 - Intro
2:48 - Chapter One: Raising the Bar
19:32 - Chapter Two: Performance
34:40 - Chapter Three: Physics
42:53 - Chapter Four: Road Trips
1:00:15 - Chapter Five: The Lawsuit
1:06:30 - Chapter Six: Malcompliance
1:18:16 - Chapter Seven: The Hack
1:23:35 - Chapter Eight: Building Pressure
1:28:28 - Chapter Nine: End of the Line
1:46:23 - Epilogue: The Episodes