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Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base

Posted by Soulskill on from the game-over-man-game-over dept.

baronvoncarson tips news that today Valve released an updated version of Alien Swarm, a popular Unreal Tournament 2004 total conversion mod. The creators of the mod were hired by Valve, and they've helped turn it into a stand-alone game running on the Source engine. Valve is also releasing the code base for Alien Swarm and an SDK. The game is available for free on Steam.

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  1. Re:Free as in beer; comes with required crapware by lgw · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    While it's true that Valve could turn evil or go under, it's also true that my car might need a new transmission. The latter is more likely and more expensive (and I have a lot of steam games), but I don't lose any sleep over the possibility - why should I particularly worry that Steam might go bad?

    Some slashdotteres seemd obsssed over the fact that this "evil DRM" might make them lose all their games some day. Sure. So what? On the scale of life's routine disasters, that's about a "3".

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