
Steam is available from both the Steam website and the Ubuntu Software Center. Name the folder as you like (Half-Life 2 004) and move it anywhere. Whether Valve debut their new engine with another Half-Life title or something completely different, their continued investment in Linux bodes well for a new Valve release coming much sooner to our platform than the nine-year lag for the original HL2 or the six years for Portal, TF2, and HL2: Episode Two. On first run, the game will ask for a CD Key. Valve head Gabe Newell confirmed the company’s work on the second iteration of the Source engine – the engine currently powering Steam titles for Linux like Team Fortress 2, Portal, and the Half-Life 2 series. Dont opt to register or to run the game through the windows installer at the end. 1.Half Life 2: VR Mod is a fan-made project, which adds full Virtual Reality support to the original 2004 PC gaming classic. Though originally released for the PC back in 2004, Half-Life 2 has lived on with additional “episodes” and a growing collection of mods to tide over the series’ fans whilst Valve take their time on the next title in the series. The Half-Life 2 series’ debut for Linux through Steam comes just after Valve’s release of Portal for Linux last week. Valve’s lauded first-person shooter Half-Life 2 has finally arrived on Linux.
