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Source 2

Game engine developed by Valve

Instance of: game engine

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Source 2 is a video game engine developed by Valve. The engine was announced in 2015 as the successor to the original Source engine, with the first game to use it, Dota 2, being ported from Source that same year. Other Valve games such as Artifact, Dota Underlords, Half-Life: Alyx, Counter-Strike 2, and Deadlock have been produced with the engine.

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Follows: Source
Developer: Valve Corporation
Written in: C++
Operating system: Microsoft Windows
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