Valve has released a major update to the game to celebrate Half-Life’s 25th anniversary. The developer makes a whole host of technical improvements, but also adds some additions from previous expansions to the game.

Valve has In their own words Several bugs in the original 1998 game have been fixed. The developer has, among other things, overhauled the game’s UI, making it easier to read on larger screens. The game’s menu has been given a new look, which now looks like the menu from the 1998 release of the game. Thanks to the update, the game also has Steam Networking support and Valve has made the necessary adjustments for Half-Life to become certified for Steam Deck making.

The update also adds some additions to the game. For example, players can use the update to play a new mini-campaign developed a few months after the release of Half-Life: Half Life Uplink. This expansion is reportedly only found on CDs from some gaming magazines and hardware manufacturers. Valve is also adding seven multiplayer maps. Three of these maps come from Half-Life: More Data, an expansion from 1999. The developer is also adding some multiplayer formats to the game.

To celebrate the game’s 25th anniversary, Valve has also published a documentary On YouTube. The original development team will talk and share experiences about creating the game, among other things.

Half-Life was released by Valve on November 19, 1998. This was the first game from Valve, which established the Steam platform five years after the game was introduced. Half-Life is a first-person shooter with puzzles that made a huge impression soon after its release. The development team at Valve used a modified version of the Quake engine for Half-Life. The game’s logo, the Greek letter LA, or lambda, refers to the name Half-Life. The symbol is used as the decay constant for exponential decay, as in radiative decay. The PC version of Half-Life has an average score of 96 points at the time of writing on Metacritic.