Valve also released images of some Steam Deck prototypes recently, showing the various stages the system went through before the company settled on the final product. Many will find it interesting to see the changes that occurred, with some of the early builds going back to mid-2019. Some may assume that, because these are prototypes, they probably didn’t run any games competently, but a video from one of the developers shows that a previous iteration of the Deck could run one of the company’s own titles.

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As seen by PC Gamer, Valve’s Pierre-Loup Griffais, who also showed off the prototypes, took to Twitter to show a previous version of the Steam Deck as it boots up. Once it loads into the operating system, a hand enters the frame to open up Half-Life 2. The rest of the video consists of the game loading to the main menu, with the familiar Valve music playing that so many fans are accustomed to. Along with the video, Griffais says that this particular prototype had about half the GPU power of the final release of the device.

It’s perhaps understandable that Valve would want to show this specific game running on the Steam Deck. After all, both were developed by the company, with Half-Life 2 going down as one of the best FPS games ever made. There were also some leaked images doing the rounds recently which showed early concept art for the gravity gun, the game’s most notorious weapon.

Of course, talking about the Half-Life games is difficult to do without a discussion on the elusive third entry. Sadly, it doesn’t seem like Valve is interested in continuing Gordon Freeman’s story, which ended on a cliffhanger at the end of the “Episode Two” DLC in 2007. However, Half-Life: Alyx has been filling a hole, and with rumors of a Half-Life RTS called Citadel going around, it seems the developer is struggling to leave this universe behind. Having said that, with each passing year, it seems less likely that fans will ever see a third installment in the main series.

Half-Life 2 released in 2004 and is available on Mobile, PC, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360.

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Source: PC Gamer