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Biggest leak in Valve's history includes Half-Life 2, Portal,Team Fortress 2

Valve has suffered the biggest asset leak in the company's history, after a series of asset repositories for its games from 2016 were released online. The games are Portal, Counter Strike: Source, Day of Defeat: Source, Half Life 2: Episodes 1 & 2, Half-Life 2 multiplayer, and Team Fortress 2.

Number1TailzFan469d ago

Can't help but feel people will mess around with these assets and end up importing them into S&box, probably recreated for certain modes at least.

Orchard469d ago

Probably, S&Box is pretty awesome too. Hoping for a final release in 2023.

sadraiden468d ago (Edited 468d ago )

"Tons of never before seen maps, models, PSDs & VMFs, everything," writes TF2 content creator Richter Overtime(opens in new tab). "Once the community finishes digesting this (61GB), there will be nothing else to talk about. This is the last official TF2 content drop you or I will ever see."

Oof. They didn't have to do us like that.

roadkillers468d ago

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the biggest leak in Valve’s history was in the early 2000’s where they had to recreate Half Life 2 because the game was stolen and leaked online.

Number1TailzFan468d ago

It wasn't the full game, it was buggy and unfinished but was interesting to see the physics and mess around in it.

Profchaos468d ago

I don't think they had to recreate because of that leak however it certainly was the biggest most damaging leak in their history.

This new incident is mostly old game assets I have not read anything about source code which would be very critical this is more like a nice museum piece for preservationists who like cataloging video game history.

I find it interesting personally as it's new art and shows the ideas and way of thinking their internal teams had from years ago and shows ideas they tried but may have not been able to pull off

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darksky468d ago (Edited 468d ago )

Well. they havent made a game in ages so others might as well mess around with the assets.

IanTH468d ago

Well, technically Half Life Alyx released only a couple years back, but I still kinda get what you mean.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein17h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii13h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo12h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9012h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19893h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

qalpha13h ago

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Inverno13h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan12h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno11h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198112h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6693h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno1d 8h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno12h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 8h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator1d 3h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac1d 1h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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The Epic Games Store Has Two More Freebies this Week

It's time to add two more games to your library for free from the Epic Games Store.

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