It kind of rhymes with the similarly ugly-cute "FIREBLU" lava texture from Doom, a cheeky reminder of a beloved FPS. Now, in the 20th anniversary developer commentary for Half-Life 2, Valve has ...

From Neural Textures to Neural Materials to RTX Skin and RTX Mega Geometry, at CES 2025, we saw some of these effects in action in a live Half-Life 2 RTX Remix demonstration. And it was mind-blowing.