Behold The Steam Teraleak
10 Years And 12TB Of Gaming History
There is a monstrous leak of Steam games on BitTorrent which seems to encompass everything Steam had in it’s Steam2 content distribution system. That spans 2003 through 2013, when Steam switched to a new distribution system which they use to this day. It contains not just public release builds, but also pre-release, prototype, and playtest versions from both Valve and third-party Steam publishers.
The leaker claims that the store was “obtained from a site that was 100% accessible to the public. It was there for everyone to download. No passwords. Nothing. Hidden in plain sight, but with no protection whatsoever.” That seems a bit of an oversight on Valve’s part but also means great news for gaming historians. The one thing that is not in the teraleak is any sign of Half-Life 3, so you won’t be playing a pre-release version of that game but there is plenty of Portal content you’ve never seen.
Follow that link to Ars Technica for more details on the content of the teraleak.
But nothing could have prepared us for this weekend’s “terarelease” encompassing more than 12TB of content related to seemingly every title available on Steam between 2003 and 2013.
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