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Valve officially released the successor to its widely-used and highly influential Source Engine at the Game Developer Conference 2015. The aptly named Source 2 will be offered completely for free to content developers according to Valve.
Valve's intention to offer the engine for free to developers is to encourage creativity and productivity. Valve's Jay Stelly added, "Given how important user generated content is becoming, Source 2 is designed not just for the professional developer, but enabling gamers themselves to participate in the creation and development of their favorite games."
Another announcement Valve made during its presentation is the Vulkan-compatible version of the Source 2 engine. Formerly known as "Next Generation OpenGL", Vulkan is a cross-platform graphics API that aims to move to integrate PC gaming onto Linux and away from Microsoft's Direct X API, according to PCGamer.
The first Source engine was released 11 years ago. The engine has been used into many famous video game titles like "Counterstrike: Source," "Left 4 Dead," "Team Fortress," and "Half-Life 2."
After the announcement of the new gaming engine, a lot of rumors has surfaced on the Internet about the development status of the highly-anticipated installment to the "Half-Life" series, "Half-Life 3."
Four years after the release of "Half-Life 2," Valve has not released a single update about the status of the third installment to the beloved video game series, according to Engadget. Aside from various unverified news leak, no official news has shed a light to the current development stage. Some analysts are even skeptical and say the there is no game in development at all.
