Valve's desk photo from 2002 news

It's been a few weeks since Marc Laidlaw posted this late 2002 photo of a desk, but I want to leave it here for those Beta Fans who might not know. Just take a look at this! Cvoxalury already analyzed it and created a list of presented here chapters:

• Train ride : City 17
• Station
• Terminal Square
• Arcade (or other)
• Kleiner's Lab
• Back alleys/Factory
• Breen Plaza
• Sewers
• Canals
• Quarry
• Ravenholm
• Eli's base
• Junkyard or Wasteland
• Sub - Lighthouse
• Depot / (Train Ride?) / (Alyx + Train?)
• Air Exchange
• Borealis
• Kleiner's Lab - Redux
• Factory
• Breen Plaza
• City Streets & Museum
• Gate to Inner City
• Inner City
• Citadel
• Interior

And his quote:

Among other curiousities, it shows that the Airex and Borealis stayed relevant enough to be included up until late 2002; the WC Mappack's most recent Airex map is from February of 2002, and it is usually believed it was dropped in early part of that year.

There's also nothing between Borealis and returning to Kleiner's lab.

As noted by Marc, it also contains Viktor Antonov's 'trademark slogan', "This is bullshit". It is said to have been applied to everything "liberally and hilariously".

I wasn't sure about AirEx in mod because everyone thinks it was cut in the beginning of 2002 so the story later that year was rewritten once more excluding AirEx, and with this evidence, now it's out of the question)

Speaking about the mod. Developing is going on as usual, fighting bugs, fixing (goddamn) water. The section of sewers I want to use appears to be a relatively small map. So I have to decide — make only 1 map or make 3. I believe all 3 of them will make this "chapter" disproportionally huge among the others.

Anyway, stay tuned for updates!