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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:Black Cat Games is irrelevant by keatonguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, poor Black Cat. They got offered and accepted a hiring from one of the most successful development houses in the world and then got paid to finish their free volunteer project and release it for free anyway. Life's a bitch.

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    Someone who's capable of discerning the topic at hand.

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