Russian blogger-urbanist Ilya Varlamov in his VKontakte that Valve used his photographs in development . Whether Varlamov plans to file claims for copyright infringement with the studio is not specified.
Varlamov spotted one of his shots of Murmansk on The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx, in which Geoff Keighley including canceled Valve projects. The photograph was in May 2018, but the author of the photo is not indicated in the interactive book.
came out 13 years after the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two. The project received rave reviews from critics and 93 on Metacritic.
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