S.T.A.L.K.E.R. contains id and Valve assets? Release the Cacodemons!

Chris Remo over at Shacknews brings us word of an impending slice of drama that has made me giggle like a school girl with a vibrator for the last couple minutes. It seems that the just-released S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Shadow of Chernobyl might just contain some in-game assets originally created by id and Valve for Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, respectively. To quote Mr. Remo;
One of the first threads to be made regarding the matter was posted to the MapCore forums; the thread creator, user michi.be, posted screen captures allegedly comparing the light image folders from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. to those of Doom 3 (all screen captures locally mirrored). Tellingly, though some of the images had been modified in various ways, such as having hue or saturation adjustments, the original filenames from the Doom 3 folders remained the same–for example, a file with the Doom-esque name "lights_impflash.dds," referring to one of the game's enemies, […]

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