While wearing quarantine in New Zealand, the national news channel has made Valve guy Gabe Newell sit down and openly fail to answer some of his favorite questions. They did their best to ask about all the games ending in three, but of course Newell refused to say anything on the subject. He was willing to say that the company has games at the moment and also mentioned the launch of Half-Life: Alyx had created the urgency within the company to continue creating single-player games.
Newell spoke to 1 News about things like esports and Cyberpunk 2077 but of course things always come back around to Valve games themselves.
“We definitely have games in development that we’re going to announce – it’s fun to launch games,” he said. With permission, it’s no surprise that they work on games. Valve has been developing all kinds of games over the years. We heard about many of them in the documentary Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours from last summer. They’ve started and derailed everything from Half-Life 3 to an RPG of sorts to other VR experiments.
The biggest question is whether they finish and release any of the games they are currently tinkering with. Newell’s comment is that Valve may be announcing any of their features in an interesting development.
Slightly on that subject, Newell says “Alyx was brilliant – being back making single-player games created a lot of movement within the company to do more of that. ”That’s not to say a concrete promise, but it’s good to hear that getting Alyx out the door could be an incentive for Valve to play other games out into the country more often. .
For all those lines without the third claim, well they tried anyway. “I haven’t talked about these things successfully for a long time and I hope to keep talking about them until they become strong questions,” Newell said. “We will move on to a new set of questions.”