{"id":1033680,"date":"2026-08-30T21:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033680\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T21:27:14","slug":"enormous-12tb-steam-leak-includes-abandoned-half-life-2-episode-3-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033680\/","title":{"rendered":"Enormous 12TB Steam leak includes abandoned Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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 Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a build of a game called F-Stop that\u2019s set in the Portal universe but is built around a camera mechanic.<\/p>\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 Call of Duty and Resident Evil installments have been dug up, as have builds of Mirror\u2019s Edge, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Dragon Age: Origins. 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 Portal 2. Sleuths have dug up <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5C7zqm7t3v4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deleted dialog<\/a> that completely changes how you\u2019ll look at Companion Cubes, alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJeremy__\/status\/2093803056139850169\" rel=\"nofollow\">intro<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheJeremy__\/status\/2093817196744933745\" rel=\"nofollow\">GlaDOS<\/a> sequences, as well as a version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HL_Alyx_NoVR\/status\/2093813696602533978\" rel=\"nofollow\">Weaponizer<\/a> intended for Half-Life 2: Episode 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[393,50,9597,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1033680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gaming","tag-news","tag-pc-gaming","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117186582793729520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}