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During a recent Hardware Day event in Bellevue, Wash., Valve spent about an hour with journalists to explain its vision for modifying the Source game engine to take advantage of multicore processors. More than one processor core will be able to not only run games at even faster frame rates, but will add a new sense of realism beyond graphics: Physics and more sophisticated AI (artificial intelligence) will be built into the engine.