Valve Acquires Worldcraft

Valve today announced that it has acquired Worldcraft, a popular level development tool for Quake and other 3-D action games. An enhanced version of the editor will be included with Valve's debut release, Half-Life, which uses the licensed Quake engine. Ben Morris, the developer of Worldcraft, has joined Valve to continue development on the editor, as well as to create additional tools for Half-Life add-on developers.

Also joining the team is Marc Laidlaw, journalist and author of several cyberpunk novels, including Dad's Nuke and The 37th Mandala.

Half-Life is being published by Sierra On-Line and is scheduled for a November 1997 release.