“Newell sees Half-Life 2 as an engine, a platform, or at best a whole industry unto itself,” gaming journalist Geoff Keighley, who Newell once gave a key card for Valve’s studios and told to “do whatever you want,” wrote for Gamespot in 2016. Creative blocks aside, perhaps Valve just has too many bigger fish to fry.

It’s Half-Life 2’s 20th anniversary, and in celebration, Valve has released a special update that adds the Episode One and Episode Two expansions to the base game so you can play it all straight through,

In a new two-hour documentary from Valve, current and former members of the company talk openly about the creation of Half-Life 2 as well as finally spilling the beans on what happened to Episode 3, and even showing gameplay of early prototypes of the canceled game.

Half-Life: Episode 3 remains one of the great what-ifs in gaming history. Now, on the occasion of Half-Life 2's 20th anniversary, Valve has opened up about its development in a brand-new documentary that shows never-before-seen work-in-progress footage,