{"id":6252,"date":"2026-08-30T19:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T19:33:22","slug":"12tb-steam-leak-half-life-2-episode-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=6252","title":{"rendered":"Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/steam-leak-valve-portal-2-beta-half-life-3-what-is\/\">12 terabytes<\/a> of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/pc-gaming\/massive-12tb-steam-leak-reveals-decades-of-unreleased-games-archived-files-include-unseen-half-life-2-episode-3-builds-and-assets\">leaked<\/a>. We don\u2019t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled <em>Half-Life 2: Episode 3<\/em>, content cut from <em>Portal 2<\/em>, and a build of a game called <em>F-Stop<\/em> that\u2019s set in the Portal universe but is built around a camera mechanic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The leak also includes titles from third-party developers. Early versions of <em>Call of Duty<\/em> and <em>Resident Evil<\/em> installments have been dug up, as have builds of <em>Mirror\u2019s Edge<\/em>, <em>Batman: Arkham Asylum<\/em>, and <em>Dragon Age: Origins<\/em>. And more is likely to come to light as people dig through the trove. But arguably the most interesting discoveries are related to Valve\u2019s <em>Portal 2<\/em>. Sleuths have dug up <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5C7zqm7t3v4\">deleted dialog<\/a> that completely changes how you\u2019ll look at Companion Cubes, alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJeremy__\/status\/2093803056139850169\">intro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJeremy__\/status\/2093817196744933745\">GlaDOS<\/a> sequences, as well as a version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HL_Alyx_NoVR\/status\/2093813696602533978\">Weaponizer<\/a> intended for <em>Half-Life 2: Episode 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/986552\/12tb-steam-leak-half-life-2-episode-3\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don\u2019t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. 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