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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 by kcbnac · · Score: 1, Redundant

    From the summary: "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."

    They hired the team that made it for the Unreal engine, and had them re-create it with the Source (Half-Life 2 etc) engine.