Steam (no, not Steem, the other Steam) has just announced they will be shipping games again.
“Hooray! Valve’s going to start shipping games again.”
Gabe Newell - Valve
This is really big news in the gaming industry as Valve is responsible for many iconic games that defined gaming history.
- Half-Life
- Counter-Strike
- Portal
- Team Fortress
- Day of Defeat
- Left for Dead
- Dota 2
Valve is also responsible for the Source engine used by many popular games like Gary's Mod and even modern games like Titanfall and Titanfall 2. At the time, the source engine was a major breakthrough in gaming development and allowed smaller organizations and even hobbyist develop 3D games significantly faster.
Although Half-Life 3 development has not been announced, this is the closest we have been to it being a reality. Gamers around the world have been dying for a conclusion to the Half-Life franchise and the idea of it being released has turned into a giant meme. Gamers analyze every Valve announcement for signs of Half-Life 3 in some hidden message. When and if Half-Life 3 is announced, it will likely be with a huge PR campaign and fun and playful hinting. Valve is well aware of the insane amount of anticipation for the next and likely last game in the Half-Life universe and will likely take advantage of it.
It has been 14 years since the last Half-Life game. Every year or so there is some event or announcement that turns into a "Half Life 3 Confirmed" meme.
Gabe went on to say the reason Valve is getting back into game developer is jealousy for Nintendo control over both the software and hardware behind their games. Valve has already released a custom controller for their games that target games that support controllers and more importantly games that don't. If a game doesn't support a game controller, the controller has the ability to map keys to its controls to provide seamless game controller support.
“Five years ago, we didn’t have electrical engineers and people who know how to do robots,”
“Now there’s pretty much no project in the hardware space that we wouldn’t be comfortable taking on. We can design chips if we need to, we can do industrial design, and so on. So that added to that.”
The controller is unlike one in existence with the unique touchpad controls and is something you either love or hate.
Half-Life 3 is not the only thing that has been turned into a meme sensation. Gabe Newell has been idolized by Gamers and has long been the center of endless memes. Gabe comes across as a very likable and kind person, and many of his actions have shaped his reputation.
For example, an employee was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and announced he would need to leave his job. Gabe's response was to offer extended leave with pay and said "Your job is to get better. The is your job description at Valve. So go home to your wife and come back when you are better." I got goosebumps just typing that.
Gabe is also behind the annual Steam sales that offer massive discounts on popular games and is an exciting time for Gamers.
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The event was mostly to announce their new game Artifact and not Half-Life 3. You can watch his announcement (19 mins) here:
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They never even finished Half-Life 2, lol.
I personally want another L4D game. I mean its fun playing L4D2 online with people and I mean the modding community does a lot but there are definitely certain limitations within the game that aren't exactly fixable by mods, at least none that I have found.
Never really played half life or half life 2 though, closest I came was a half life level remake done in Gary's mod.
I loved L4D 1, played it a ton. L4D 2 I didn't really get into much. Fortnite is the new L4D, although I only started playing the free Battle Royale I haven't bought it but considering it to try the L4D mode.
My love for L4D2 came with the fact that I am slightly younger so by time I got the two games, almost nobody was on L4D online and instead all went to the second one and played the original maps (old maps, new mechanics)
If I ever get the time to sit down and play I will check out fortnite.
At the 2015 Game Development Conference event, Valve and HTC announced a partnership to create a virtual reality lens. Continuing the partnership, Valve recently said that they are experimenting with the legendary game, Half Life, on their latest virtual reality goggles.The news was confirmed by Kotaku who had interviewed a Valve programmer named Jeep Barnett. In the interview, Barnett said that he and his team are indeed experimenting on new virtual glasses using Half Life game. Barnett's statement also invites quite extreme speculation among gamers, that Valve is allegedly making Half Life 3 with virtual reality features.The continuation of the Half Life game (Half Life 3) is much awaited by gamers. It is precisely this that makes some of Valve's most recent statements often lead to excessive expectations and speculation. Nevertheless, some observers do claim that Valve may indeed be making Half Life 3 with virtual reality features, although the possibility is very small.@themarkymark
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Half-life and and Portal are my favorite games. I hope to be released soon.
Half life is one of my favorite game, though the part 2 seems not to have ended how i was expecting it too
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I'm a bit skeptical about Half-Life 3. I want it to come out. However most of the people that worked on Half-Life series have left Valve. Also, if it does come out there is a possibility that the game will be over hyped. A lot of people may end up disappointed. (Anyone remember what happened to Duke Nukem Forever?)
It'sood to know Valve is making games again. Yaaaaay!! (though I don't think we will ever get HL3, too much hype, too small hope.)
Hmmm... I mentioned this post in my Daily Picks It's good to find a witness posting gaming posts, though it seems you don't mainly post about gaming.
Half Life 3 is a unicorn! It'll never exist haha
Finally some action on the part of Valve. But let's face it, do you really think that Half-Life 3 will be on the way?
I haven't played the saga yet, because I always have other games to play, but it's something I notice when my friends tell me about Half-Life 3. Most of them have already given up hope.
However, don't forget that Left4Dead 3 is already in production. They even showed an image of the next game last year, I think. However, they didn't say anything else. Even so, I thank you for the article, because I still didn't know anything!
I think HL3 is coming. Gabe is no dummy and you have to be the shittiest CEO in the world to not see the massive cash cow HL3 will be.
They did fire the lead voice actor a while ago but that doesn’t mean he can’t be re-hired or replacing.
L4D was one of my favorite games but 2 was meh.
Well, I know Gabe isn't stupid. But he could do so amazing things and he doesn't. One of them, like you said, it was the production of HL3. I hope they release in a near future.
The second is something that the American PSN have: If you clear a 100% game, you receive 25$ for being a good gamer. Steam has more money than PlayStation, they could put some strategy in the company for benefit us, gamers.
It's just an opinion but I think you're right.
I loved L4D 1 and 2. Hope the next could be better!