12TB Steam leak: abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets surface
A 12TB archive of Steam builds from 2003 to 2013 exposes Valve's lost Half-Life 2: Episode 3, the camera-driven F-Stop game, and years of untouched third-party prototypes.

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A 12TB archive of Steam builds from 2003 to 2013 exposes Valve's lost Half-Life 2: Episode 3, the camera-driven F-Stop game, and years of untouched third-party prototypes.
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