Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets
Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.
- Fact 2: Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked.
- Fact 3: But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a build of a game called F-Stop that’s set in the Portal universe but is built around a camera mechanic.
- Fact 4: But arguably the most interesting discoveries are related to Valve’s Portal 2.
Terrence O'Brien is the Verge’s weekend editor. He’s covered the tech industry for over 18 years and knows a thing or two about synths.
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a build of a game called F-Stop that’s set in the Portal universe but is built around a camera mechanic.
(Original synthesis pending human/AI review — generated by the stub provider by selecting real sentences from the source material, not by writing new analysis or commentary.)
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