It's registered to a company in Australia.
They probably updated the Source engine for some reason or other. Or maybe a bug in one HL 2 weapon, etc. Could be anything those games share.
PS: It updated HL 2 Deathmatch too.
edited 3rd Dec '12 6:46:20 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."...But what if TF 2, L 4 D and L 4 D 2 didn't update this time? What if it was just the Half Life and Portal games? What would that mean?
That doesn't seem like a Source update to me. Presumably, if Source updated, TF 2, and the Left Four Dead games would also have updated. It probably wouldn't have affected the first Half Life either, because the original didn't use Source. If it was a change to a Half Life gun, it wouldn't have affected the Portal games.
edited 3rd Dec '12 6:58:00 AM by unnoun
I will never forgive Valve for, what, losing interest in the middle of their story?
At the same time I'll probably have to buy HL 3 to see what happens.
Which is foolish. It's not like they've concluded the Half-life series satisfactorily yet.
I am hopeful that it will have a good conclusion.
I'm less hopeful that the game will come out at all.
Valve's a good company. They were doing the same thing with HL 2, and we all know what we got.
It'll be worth the wait.
Ah, but you see, mate, that's the problem. They already have. All the money, that is. I am not sure what the graph of all the digital downloads platforms looks like but I would be willing to wager that the bit that represents Valve's Steam service towers over all the others like a colossus.
In short, they don't ever need to make Half Life 3 Episode 3 Electric Boogaloo - they are already minted.

Steam updated every Half-Life related program this morning. Anyone know what's up with that?
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