Gabe Newell of Valve Software (Steam) recently spoke to 1 NEWS in New Zealand about everything that has been going on and teased a few fun details. For those who didn't know, Newell has been staying in New Zealand since early 2020 and decided to stay after a holiday when COVID-19 got much worse.
Newell continues to talk very highly of New Zealand, even somewhat jokingly mentioning that some Valve staffers appear to strongly want to move their work over there now too. Newell mentioned why there's no reason other game companies couldn't move to New Zealand, and joked how they're a producer of "not-stupidium" seemingly referring to how well New Zealand has dealt with COVID-19.
The real juicy details though come when, as expected, questions were asked about upcoming games. Newell said very clearly "We definitely have games in development that we're going to be announcing — it's fun to ship games," and that "Alyx was great — to be back doing single-player games, that created a lot of momentum inside of the company to do more of that.".
When asked about Half-Life 3 and the other usuals, joking about Valve being afraid of the number 3, Newell said directly "I've successfully not spoken about those things for a long time and I hope to continue to not talk about them until they are moot questions. Then we'll move on to a new set of questions," and that the "nice thing is, by not answering those questions, I avoid the community coming up with new, equally-difficult-to-answer questions.".
It's good to know that the game development fire has been lit under Valve once again. Nice to see they continue to keep Linux in their sights for games too with all their recent games (Artifact, Underlords and Half-Life: Alyx) all having Linux builds, although Alyx is not directly mentioned on the store page for Linux it is available.
What are you hoping their next game announcement will be?
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Jan 20, 2021
Quoting: ironheadI'd defintely hope they come up with more high quality VR games like Alyx. Don't care if it will be Half-Life-something or not, just something serious.Could be a puke machine if they released a Portal 3 in VR.
I still need to set aside the time to play Alyx!
Comandante Ñoñardo Jan 21, 2021
Valve always came up with innovative gameplay, hl introduced story in fps and interaction mechanics, hl2 defined physics, portal was about bending space (and really neat rendering tricks), team fortress is a masterclass of creating classes in a multiplayer game, and so on and so forth.
Not to mention latest VR stuff, I spent days playing the bow experiment in The Lab and played Alyx like I was in there.
Valve, please, TAKE MY MONEY.
gradyvuckovic Jan 21, 2021
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