Crikey, Half-Life 2 simply turned 20 this week, however regardless of that, and even because of that, it is simply hit a brand new concurrent participant depend peak.
Look, everyone knows that Half-Life 2 is among 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 It simply is, but it surely’s additionally fairly outdated now and despite having lots of followers, it is not like an enormous variety of individuals are taking part in it each day. Besides, nicely, proper now they’re, as simply this week a huge 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 crucial iconic video games round. And have you learnt what an replace like that does? Usher in an entire heap of gamers, apparently.
As seen over on SteamDB, a monitoring web site that permits 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 just a few lower than that in-game proper now too.
It is a ridiculously spectacular determine for such an outdated sport, these are the sort of numbers you would possibly count on to see for a web based title throughout a quieter interval, however clearly an replace like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’ll be able to decide up the sport without spending a dime to have a good time its twentieth anniversary.
Not solely was there an enormous new replace, however a whole feature-length documentary too, which is nicely value a watch when you’re a long-time fan of Valve and all its video games – it even options an in-game take a look at what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 might have been (simply do not take that as affirmation that it is lastly occurring).