From new Command and Conquer and Half-Life campaigns to a full expansion for an RPG classic, these are the top ten mods of the year

Players have voted for the best mods of 2025, and there really is something for everyone in ModDB's varied and interesting ...
Ars Technica

Halflife: Why so many mods?

Why exactly do so many mods come out for HL? UT and Q3 get ssome mods, but not the complete overhauls that HL seems to get. CS obviously has been around a while, but why would a relatively new mod ...
Game Rant

Half-Life: How to Install Mods

Zunair Shafiq has been writing and gaming since he was a kid and now spends most of his time combining the two. He wants to play every game, good or bad, but has a soft corner for Simulation and ...
Engadget

Fan-made mod turns ‘Half-Life 2’ into a fully playable VR game

If Half-Life: Alyx left you with an itch to revisit its seminal 2004 predecessor, now you can do so in virtual reality. On Friday, a group of fans known as the Source VR Mod Team released Half-Life 2: ...
Digital Trends

Half-Life jumps to over 5,000 concurrent players thanks to a brutal new mod

Half-Life has its fair share of gore and horror elements, but it was never the splatterhouse experience some shooters can be. Of course, part of that was due to graphical limitations in 1998; trying ...
Kotaku

Half-Life: VR Mod

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Half-Life: VR Mod A fan-made highly immersive Virtual Reality mod for the classic Half-Life from 1998. Thief: The Dark Project, Thief II: The Metal Age, and ...
GamesRadar+

This Half-Life: Alyx mod lets you play the entire VR game without VR, but many fans wonder why you'd want to

"Just because you can, doesn't mean you should" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Valve's Half-Life: Alyx is one of the defining VR ...
Kotaku

Half-Life 2: Alone Mod

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Half-Life 2: Alone Mod Half-Life 2 Alone Mod takes place in the usual City 17 that we’re used to, but with a twist: everyone, and I mean everyone, is gone.
TechSpot

Half-Life 2 VR mod to enter public beta next month after five years in development

Something to look forward to: Developers and modders have been trying to make Valve's seminal Half-Life 2 playable in VR for almost a decade. The latest attempt, long-dormant, still has a ways to go ...
IGN

Half-Life: Alyx - No VR Mod Gameplay

What happens when Half-Life: Alyx, a 10/10 IGN Masterpiece, is stripped of its virtual reality foundation? Would it hold up as an FPS, like Half-Life 2, without a VR headset? Well, the GB_2 ...
GamesRadar+

Garry's Mod is, unbelievably, still kicking and just got a new update, improving some of the popular Half-Life mod's visuals, NPC behavior, and even bringing over some new weapons

Garry's Mod's long legs are aspirational. 19 years after the popular Half-Life mod's initial release, it's still being fine tuned, and its November 2025 update is no slouch in the department, ...