A vast collection of games, betas and prototypes uploaded to Steam over the course of a decade has reportedly leaked online.
As noted on X by numerous Valve news and fan accounts including Gabe Follower and Scolcer, around 12-13 terabytes of data spanning a decade from 2003 to 2013 is available from download, seemingly consisting of everything that was published on Steam during that period.
This not only includes final game releases, but also early beta versions of games that may have been uploaded to Steam for testing purposes but were never intended to be released.
According to Gabe Follower, the leak includes early versions of numerous Valve games, including Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, its cancelled experimental camera puzzle game F-Stop and potentially early content from Half-Life 2: Episode 3.
“The community is still researching everything, so the next few days might be insane,” they posted.
Someone leaked 12 TB of Valve's internal builds and game assets from 2003 to 2013. This includes early versions of Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, CS:GO, F-Stop and potentially EP3. The community is still researching everything, so the next few days might be insane... There's a Weaponizer… pic.twitter.com/Sg7OqJjL2X
According to Scolcer, the leak hasn’t necessarily come about as a result of hacking – it’s claimed the directory was publicly available and just hadn’t been discovered yet.
“There has been no hacking. This is 100% Valve’s fault,” they wrote on X (via machine translation). “The Steam Teraleak was obtained from a site that was 100% accessible to the public.
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