Valve sends along two new movies (local US mirror - movie 1 ~ 157.4MB / movie 2 ~ 91.4MB) from Half-Life 2: Episode Two, showing more from their episodic shooter. Both gameplay movies show some of the new locations you'll see in the game, and demonstrate Source Engine features like the new particle system and soft shadowing effects. Links: movie one, movie two. Half-Life 2: Episode Two will be released during the first quarter of 2007 on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 and will include Team Fortress 2 and Portal.

Mirrors: 3D Gamers, Filecloud (movie#1), Filecloud (movie#2), FileShack (movie#1), FileShack (movie #2), GH, Techgage, and WP.