Valve is the company behind some of the industry's most iconic titles, bringing classics like Half-Life, Portal and Counter Strike to players all over the world. Over the years however, the company decided to switch its focus to Steam and more recently, Hardware, leaving many players wondering if there ever will be another game from them after DOTA 2. Gabe Newell, president and CEO of Valve, revealed at a presentation that his company is getting back into developing new games, starting with the DOTA 2-themed card game, Artifact.

"Artifact is the first of several games that are going to be coming from us. So that's sort of good news. Hooray! Valve's going to start shipping games again."

Artifact isn't the only game that Valve has in its pipeline, as at a 2017 Reddit AMA, Newell said that there is at least one new fully-fledged single player game in the works. In addition, three big VR games will also be coming from them. When asked about specifics, Newell replied:

"We aren't going to be talking about it today, but sort of the big thing, the new arrow we have in our quiver, really, is our ability to develop hardware and software simultaneously."

Newell described Valve's focus on Steam and hardware as an investment in the future, saying that Valve has always been jealous at companies like Nintendo who are experts at developing hardware and software.

"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 really 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."

What do you think? Is there hope for a new Half-Life, maybe?

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[Spectral Blizzard]

Half-Life 3!
Portal 3!
Sing a song with with me, fellas!
Get out the guns, Billy!
LET'S GOOOOOOOO!

 

[Kioku]

Left 4 Dead VR
Counter Strike Source VR
Half Life Episode 2 VR

I dunno. I still don't think they know what the number 3 is.

 

[Old]

I suppose I should play Half-Life at some point....been hearing good things for years, “great sci-fi elements”, “head crabs”, etc.etc.....

 

[Kioku]

I suppose I should play Half-Life at some point....been hearing good things for years, “great sci-fi elements”, “head crabs”, etc.etc.....

Head Crabs are like lice.. But better.

 

[BlueFox gui]

HAH
OMG THAT MADE ME LAUGH
they are jealous of nintendo because they made games
hey valve i have a good solution for you my boys
START MAKING GAMES AGAIN
AND GIVE US HALF LIFE 3 AND OTHER SHIT WE WANT

 

[SG854]

Head Crabs are like lice.. But better.

Lice are like head crabs.. but not as good.

 

[Old]

Lice are like head crabs.. but not as good.

Ohhhh, VD clinic, here I come (again).....

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Portal 3 when?
...No, seriously, when?

 

[Kioku]

Portal 3 when?
...No, seriously, when?

When hell freezes over and Lord Gaben assumes his rightful place.

 

[SG854]

HAH
OMG THAT MADE ME LAUGH
they are jealous of nintendo because they made games
hey valve i have a good solution for you my boys
START MAKING GAMES AGAIN
AND GIVE US HALF LIFE 3 AND OTHER SHIT WE WANT

They are jealous cuz there gamez only has Half the Life of Nintendo games.
They are gunna launch a Counter Strike on Nintendo.
They opened their Portal and now we will see quality games pouring out of their Valve.

 

[RedoLane]

"We've always been a little bit jealous of companies like Nintendo."
What are they, 3?

 

[pedro702]

They are jealous cuz there gamez only has Half the Life of Nintendo games.
They are gunna launch a Counter Strike on Nintendo.
They opened their Portal and now we will see quality games pouring out of their Valve.

they did released counter strike phisicaly on original xbox

yeah they are jealous for nothing, they probably have way more money than nintendo due to steam and yet they dont want to spend any making actual games anymore

 

[AlanJohn]

Hopefully they'll be real, full games, not just warioware-esque vr stuff.

 

[kumikochan]

He's mostly talking about VR and that they'll do more with VR

 

[Axido]

Hopefully they'll be real, full games, not just warioware-esque vr stuff.

But I really want a VRio Ware game.

 

[brunocar]

I suppose I should play Half-Life at some point....been hearing good things for years, “great sci-fi elements”, “head crabs”, etc.etc.....

you owe it to yourself dude, its one of the best FPS from the 90's, its an atmospheric masterpiece

 

[AlanJohn]

But I really want a VRio Ware game.

Wait 10 years until nintendo gets into VR.

 

[APartOfMe]

all i want is portal on the switch

 

[Noctosphere]

I never played Dota, but I do know where the idea was born
The "Dota 1" is a still popular map on warcraft 3
Since blizzard didnt say "All created map ideas are belonging to us", so some people decided to make it a whole new stand alone game
I still play Warcraft 3 and see a lot of Dota player, but personally, I prefer Civilization Wars