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Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Documentary
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Valve's two-hour documentary for Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, with team members discussing development, nearly running out of money, being hacked, the publisher lawsuit and the birth of Steam.
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HN recommends it as an excellent inside look at Valve's history, its technology and the games industry of the time.
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Mentioned in the article, but the source is the excellent YouTube documentary Valve released for Half-Life 2's 20th Anniversary [0] [0] [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗I really enjoyed the Half Life 2: 20th Anniversary documentary. It gave a pretty neat perspective of what the games' industry was like at the time, and also made me really appreciate the technology that Valve was building. A lot of really innovative stuff came out of the creation of that game. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗RIP. For those who haven't seen it yet, he was interviewed in the HL2 20th Anniversary Documentary: [VIDEO] (intro and chapter 1 at 13:40)
Read original comment ↗They drop the episodic content idea, it will be a full game You can watch the 20th anniversary doc, they speak about it : [VIDEO]
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