Crikey, Half-Life 2 simply turned 20 this week, however regardless of that, and even due to that, it is simply hit a brand new concurrent participant depend peak.
Look, everyone knows that Half-Life 2 is likely one of the biggest video games round. I’ve not even performed it and I do know that! It simply is, but it surely’s additionally fairly previous now and regardless of having lots of followers, it is not like an enormous variety of persons are enjoying it daily. Besides, properly, proper now they’re, as simply this week a giant new replace dropped that introduced in a ton of enhancements, in addition to compiling Episode 1 and a couple of into the bottom sport. Not solely that, however a totally new developer commentary was added in for the bottom sport too, providing up some behind the scenes tidbits to one of the iconic video games round. And are you aware what an replace like that does? Herald an entire heap of gamers, apparently.
As seen over on SteamDB, a monitoring web site that allows you to see all kinds of insights on varied video games, Half-Life 2 hit a concurrent participant depend peak of 63,636 (love a palindromic quantity), the sport’s all-time excessive. That was actually hit simply 12 minutes in the past on the time of writing, with only some lower than that in-game proper now too.
It is a ridiculously spectacular determine for such an previous sport, these are the sort of numbers you may count on to see for an internet title throughout a quieter interval, however clearly an replace like this has introduced the followers out of the woodworks. Presumably there’s some new gamers in there too, as till tomorrow you possibly can decide up the sport totally free to have a good time its twentieth anniversary.
Not solely was there a giant new replace, however a whole feature-length documentary too, which is properly price a watch in case you’re a long-time fan of Valve and all its video games – it even options an in-game have a look at what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 might have been (simply do not take that as affirmation that it is lastly taking place).
