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The Source engine should've died a decade ago, but Valve kept finding ways to keep it alive

You probably know the Source engine from Counter-Strike, or maybe from Half-Life 2's crowbar-swinging heroics, or those Portal test chambers that broke your brain in the 2000s. It's the engine behind ...
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The Source engine should've died a decade ago, but Valve kept finding ways to keep it alive

I’m Adam Conway, an Irish technology fanatic with a BSc in Computer Science and I'm XDA’s Lead Technical Editor. My Bachelor’s thesis was conducted on the viability of benchmarking the non-functional ...