Gabe Newell: Valve Is Working On Games (And Hardware...?) Again!

General news News 03/11/2018

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Maybe there’s a chance of certain numbered three titles to be developed.

Gabe Newell, the head of Valve, presented Artifact, a game based on Dota 2, in a presentation. Gaben said the following: „Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us. So that’s good news. Hooray! Valve’s going to start shipping games again.” Notice how he said first of several games. They don’t seem to just release Artifact and then hide behind Steam for years again…

Last year, during a Reddit, Ask Me Anything, Newell said that they are working on at least one full-fledged single-player game, and later in 2017, he also mentioned three VR titles, too. However, he said something that caught our attention: „our ability to develop hardware and software simultaneously.” HARDWARE – he either thought about Steam Machine (PCs with SteamOS), or a possible successor to the VR headset HTC Vive, which Valve was investing into the past few years. Who knows? Since Dota 2 came out, Valve made investments into hardware (Vive is a prime example), which means they can think about more than making games.

„We’ve always been a little bit jealous of companies like Nintendo. When Miyamoto is sitting down and thinking about the next version of Zelda or Mario, he’s thinking what is the controller going to look like, what sort of graphics and other capabilities. He can introduce new capabilities like motion input because he controls both of those things. And he can make the hardware look as good as possible because he’s designing the software at the same time that’s going to take advantage of it. So that is something we’ve been jealous of, and that’s something that you’ll see us taking advantage of subsequently,” Newell said.

So there’s something happening at Valve. Maybe something will indeed happen, which wasn’t the case with Half-Life 2: Episode 3! Maybe Gaben listened to his son, who said that Valve should try doing something where they don’t know what result they would get. Perhaps the father took notes from his son…

Source: PCGamer

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