Apologies for making up several new words in the title but they should make some sense to you. On the back of the seemingly accidental Half-life 2 update, Episode 2 has been given a handful of new accessories including the new SteamPipe format, which allows for a more optimised delivery of the...
Valve must find this desperately laughable to watch people fall over themselves to find things in nothing. That picture at the end could not be more obvious it's a joke with some of the labels on the floors. I feel sorry for this guy having to come out and apologise for it.
We full well known...
So the update has just stopped abruptly. I'm of the opinion this update should have been region specific (since it's localisation gcfs) but Valve might have ctrl + A'ed this one by accident.
half-life 2_koreana.gcf, half-life 2_portuguese.gcf and half-life 2_thai.gcf" added, approximately 700mb in size.
Why now and why all countries need these files confuse me greatly.
Welcome! Can't promise there will be a deluge of stuff on Half-life 3 but we'll find the scraps which fall off the edge of Valve's table...and devour them pathetically.
Barnz - he does seem to know Sven! Is Sven still active or did he pass everything over?
It's difficult for us to say if any other websites use sources for their news. We hope they do.
Do you mean just for Valve games? I could tell you my sources but then you might go set-up valve-epic-times.net
Mythos - Many of the things you're saying I agree with. You're certainly not going to be muzzled for what we disagree on. I'd echo some of what James has already said in terms of the levels we go to in order to corroborate what we publish here. We were very thorough after the initial issue was...
DEATH eVADER - your point about Hl3 and Source 2 groups is entirely valid. HL3 could be built into that, which would make the cabal size around 100 rather than 42. Leveraged said other groups to consider are: "Source2 Characters" and "Source2 Minidumps"
It's worth clarifying the database allowed public submissions of bug tickets before Valve shut it down. So you can ignore anything the tickets say. The post above focuses entirely on what cannot be changed or submitted by third parties - the email distribution lists.
I feel like the next-gen consoles, Source 2 and L4D3 all synergise nicely into one package making that the next title on the horizon. Where Source 2 is in development is anyone's guess, the amount of groups makes me hopeful it's not a million miles away.
Update 2:
We've put together a list of the names of 791 "projects" that were found in this database. You can view it on Pastebin now.
Update 1:
We have recently been sent a copy of the original Jira archive data, which has provided unprecedented access to the entire project tracker. Other...
We thought not much more info would materialise for the long cancelled Half-Life Episode 4 or Return to Ravenholm as it was also known. However, we've been sent more examples of content produced for the game by Arkane Studios.
It's interesting to see that Arkane intended to put their own stamp...