As he quarantines in New Zealand, the national news channel has made Valve’s guy Gabe Newell sit down and not answer some of his favorite questions. They did their best to ask about all games that end with three, but Newell, of course, refused to say anything about it. He was willing to say that the company currently has games in development and also mentioned that the launch of Half-Life: Alyx created contempt within the company to continue creating singleplayer games.
Newell talked to 1 News about things like eSports and Cyberpunk 2077, but of course things always come back to Valve’s own games.
“We definitely have games in development that we’re going to announce – it’s fun to launch games,” he said. Granted, it’s no surprise that they’re working on games. Valve has had all kinds of games in development over the years. We heard about many of them in the documentary Half-Life: Alyx – Final Hours last summer. They started and canceled everything from Half-Life 3 to some kind of RPG and other VR experiments.
The big question is whether they will finish and release any of the games they are currently working on. Newell’s mention that Valve can actually advertise anything they have in development is interesting.
On this subject, Newell says “Alyx was great – being back to making games for one player, who created a lot of momentum within the company to do more of that.” This is not what I would call a concrete commitment, but it’s good to hear that putting Alyx on the market may be inspiring Valve to launch other things in singleplayer games more often.
As for all those series without third parties, well, at least they tried. “I haven’t talked about these things successfully in a long time and I hope to continue not to talk about them until they are debatable issues,” said Newell. “Then, we move on to a new set of questions.”