The administration of Half-Life 2 Project Beta wishes you Happy New Year
The outgoing 2024 was an interesting and eventful year for all fans of Half-Life's cut content.

Without a doubt, the main event for beta fans was the release of  the 2000 and 2002 Half-Life 2 video demos. We finally saw with our own eyes what the"Free TVs" looked like! What the game looked like in 2000, what it sounded like in 2002. Tons of content to analyze and restore.

Also, let's not forget about mods. Alfeos completed the development of his Town mod and posted, among other things a version for Coterminus. Raising the Bar: Redux posted a demo of Division 3. And the authors of Dark Interval finally shared part 2 of their mod.

And of course, in the outgoing year you finally recieved new versions of the Mega Patch and Mega Build of the Half-Life 2 beta. nd to sweeten the New Year's pill for you even more, we are ready to present you with a patch for the Mega Build, in which many problems were fixed, and also additional content was added - a remake of the Siggraph 2000 demo, the infamous "Free TVs".

Download, play, and celebrate the New Year! We wish all the best to you and even more new content in the upcoming year!

The second part of the Dark Interval mod was recently released, containing five new chapters. In the new release, Gordon Freeman will continue his journey beyond the outer wall of City 17, all the way to the junkyard where Eli has taken up residence.


Dark Interval modification is an attempt to show the story told in HL2 from an alternative point of view. The authors create new maps, characters, based on Valve's early story drafts and cut content. Here you can see Manhack arcade, cremators, hydras, creatures from Xen - many things that are interesting HL2 Beta, but in a completely different, author's form.

You can download this new release from our site, or from ModDB page. There is also discussion thead on our forum.

In addition to the important news: Project Beta team is happy to announce a new releases of Mega Build and Mega Patch 5 for you with the latest fixes and addons.

New releases are already waiting for you in our Downloads section:

Mega Build 2024

Megapatch 5.0

Today is a good day! Valve released the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary update. Many bugs that appeared during the past updates has been fixed. Episodes are now merged with the main game.
But that's not the main thing.

Among other things, on the special update page you can find those very videos from the closed presentations of HL2 2000 and 2002!

Well, we waited, we hoped, and now we see!

GET YOUR FREE TVs!

E3 2002 demo:

And of course a two-hour documentary with numerous developer interviews and much more, not shown before, including concept art of the Episode Three:

Town mod for the retail engine recently received an update. It adds Russian and English subtitles and brings visual and gameplay improvements. Some traps, gameplay segments and visuals of the mod have been finalized. Maps have been recompiled for both HDR and LDR versions. It is worth mentioning that the ported version is made as an addon for Coterminus and has a lot of improvements in addition to general stability.

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