Half-Life: Alyx seemingly reconfirmed for March & play previous HL games for free!

PhoenixTank

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Half-Life: Alyx has seemingly been reconfirmed for March, with an AMA happening tomorrow.
It'd be a real dick move to have that in the news piece and then announce a delay tomorrow... so fingers crossed for no bamboozle.

For the rest of us without VR, all the Half Life games are free to play from now until release.
Half-Life: Alyx is coming in March, and we are celebrating early by making all games in the Half-Life Collection FREE to play for Steam users, from now until the day it launches!

Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible.

From now until Half-Life: Alyx launches, visit the game page of each Half-Life game to install it and play as much as you want, right up until the day Half-Life: Alyx is released!

If you already have Steam installed, you can click the following links to start playing now!
Half-Life
Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Also included in this bundle and available to play for free are:
Half-Life: Opposing Force
Half-Life: Blue Shift
Team Fortress Classic

^ Links altered from original announcement as steam:// links won't work here.
 
Last time i saw something like this, it was DICE giving away Battlefield 4 DLC's until BF 1 release date. This package is cheap but cool move nonetheless:messenger_clapping:
 
play as much as you want, right up until the day Half-Life: Alyx is released!

Does that mean you lose access to these games when the vr game is released?
 
play as much as you want, right up until the day Half-Life: Alyx is released!

Does that mean you lose access to these games when the vr game is released?
That is my understanding, yes.
Safe money would be on there being a proper sale for all of them on or around HL: A's release. $6.28/£4.82 during the last sales for reference.
 
So they're not to keep? Because I just bought the rest of the HL games fairly recently and I'd be pretty annoyed.
 
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Recommended Mods and Expansions

HL1
- Afraid of Monsters
- They Hunger
- Paranoia
- Opposing Force

HL2
- Mission Improbable
- Research and Development
- MINERVA
- Black Mesa Source (full version sold separately)
 
No better time to replay them. I should dust off my copy of Orange Box and go through the original Portal, too. It has been a few years.
 
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