An old beta build of Half-Life containing some cut content has surfaced online. The leaked version of the game is dated to October 1998, indicating that it predates Half-Life's official release by just a few weeks.
November 19 will mark Half-Life's 26th anniversary. Valve's first-ever game is still widely touted as one of the most seminal first-person shooters in the history of gaming. One of the final things that Valve was working on over the course of its development was PvP multiplayer, which the company was ironing out until the very last moment.
To celebrate the iconic first-person shooter game's 25th anniversary, Valve releases a huge update for the original Half-Life game.
A testament to these efforts has now emerged online in the form of a Half-Life beta build uncovered by game researcher Frogsnatcher. This pre-release version of the game was found on an old CD dated October 20, 1998, suggesting the build predates the shooter's commercial debut by roughly one month. The disc itself has "net test 2" written on it in a sharpie pen, which indicates that this beta was primarily geared toward ironing out the game's multiplayer features...
