Half-Life: Alyx is coming in March, and we are celebrating early by making all games in the Half-Life Series FREE to play for Steam users, from now until the day it launches!If you already have Steam installed, you can click the following links to start playing now! Half-LifeHalf-Life 2Half-Life 2: Episode OneHalf-Life 2: Episode TwoIf you don't have Steam, you can download it here.Half-Life: Alyx is set before the events of Half-Life 2 and the episodes, but the games share characters and story elements. The Half-Life: Alyx team believes that the best way to enjoy the new game is to play through the old ones, especially Half-Life 2 and the episodes, so we want to make that as easy as possible.

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.GeneralFixed the overlay not working correctly or crashing some DXGI/DX12 games in upcoming Windows Insider builds.Support a LAN event using DNS injection on lancache.steamcontent.com to set up a local explicit caching proxy for downloads.Fixed "Open the screenshot uploader after closing a game if screenshots were taken" setting not being honored in some casesLibraryAdded sort by Steam Review to shelves and app grids.Added Library What’s New settings dialog which makes it easier to find and manage per-game news prioritiesAdded a setting to show only product updates in Library What’s NewAdded Windows drive letter to the "Size on Disk" label shown on installed game portraits.Played/Unplayed filters no longer include/exclude games that were installed but never actually playedImproved performance of library artwork precacherImproved library filtering for Korean game titles when typing in Hangul.Fixed an issue where removing the last non-Steam game from a collection would cause it to spontaneously reappear at a later time.Fixed non-Steam games with the "Include in VR Library" checkbox checked not appearing in dynamic collections with VR hardware support selectedFixed hidden achievements sometimes still appearing as hidden in the activity feed even after being achievedFixed an issue that would sometimes cause the wrong audio to play from a multi-disc soundtrack when playing an individual trackFixed games that have updates set to "Only update this game when I launch it" not showing in blue in the game list when an update is requiredFixed the "View Additional Artwork" button not working correctly for some soundtracks.Fixed some partner event summaries not rendering properly in the activity feed and What's New sectionAdded [h2] and [h3] rendering for partner events and announcementsFixed a case where changes to game collections were not reflected in Big Picture Mode.Remote PlayFixed cursor scale on different resolution displaysAdded client-side screen magnifier for the toggle magnification controller bindingRemote Play TogetherThe host can see all controllers connected in the Remote Play Together session.The host can drag and drop any player's controller to change its slot. This helps some games where the first identified controller or the first slot is locked to the primary game character and the group only brought a single controller. This also help cases where a player leaves the session with their controller and the host needs to take over input in the abandoned slot.Added error message when trying to join a game that is unavailable due to country or Family View restrictions.LinuxOnly execute steam-runtime-system-info when needed for diagnostics.Initiate steam-runtime-system-info only when needed.Fixed a crash while preparing the hardware surveyFixed Steam Library on some NFS mountsSteamNetworkingSocketsFixed a crash caused by certain types of P2P connection failures

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