Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project has just been announced, and the teenage 90s gamer in me is screaming with joy. The project is being developed by four of Half-Life 2's best mod teams, working together as "Orbifold Studios". If you're in need of a new Gaming PC to run Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project, we've got plenty of GeForce RTX 40 series GPU-powered Gaming PCs for you.

The modders are using the very latest version of RTX Remix, rebuilding the materials from Half-Life 2 with Physically Based Rendering (PBR) properies, which add gorgeous new geometric detail through Valve's Hammer editor, as well as using NVIDIA's technologies including full ray tracing, DLSS 3, Reflex, and RTX IO. It looks utterly gorgeous, breathing new life into one of the best PC games ever made.

Half-Life 2 RTX has some beautiful high-quality assets, gorgeously detailed models (with an astounding 20x more geometric details over the vanilla version of the game), much higher-resolution textures (8x the pixels), and an overhauled lighting system.

The lighting system is the gem here, given that it has full ray tracing support from NVIDIA while performance-enhancing DLSS 3 is available to GeForce RTX 40 series GPU owners. There's also NVIDIA Reflex, NVIDIA RTX IO, and more included in Half-Life 2 RTX: An RTX Remix Project.

We don't know when it's coming out, but what we do know is that it looks amazing, and will be released before Half-Life 3.