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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:Mac version? by cbhacking · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    So you care, at least a little bit, about whether or not there's a Mac version?

    Seriously, people, think about what you're writing. That severely overused phrase just does *NOT* mean what you seem to think it does. It's not like you need a PhD in English to figure out the difference between
    "I could care less"
    and
    "I couldn't care less."
    So, which one did you mean to use?

    On-topic, it does seem strange that they wouldn't have ported it to OS X. In theory, a cross-platform game engine should make the port very easy...

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