Valve has announced that Half-Life games are free to play on Steam. The promotion lasts through March and leads to the release of the new game.

In 1998, Valve Software changed the video game landscape forever with Half-Life, an influential horror-fueled first-person shooter that pushed the limits of technology and video game narratives. Six years later, they expanded even further with Half-Life 2. Two years after that, they released two self-contained "episodes" continuing the Half-Life 2 story, with the promise of a third on the horizon. And then... silence. No new Half-Life game, tons of fan demand. Now, finally, out of nowhere, Valve has tweeted out the next chapter in the saga. It's called Half-Life: Alyx, named …

Valve reveals that the next game in the Half-Life series will be Half-Life: Alyx, described as being a flagship VR title and not... Half-Life 3.