Gabe Newell stokes the 'Half-Life 3' fire

Gabe Newell, president and co-founder of Valve Company, participated in a Reddit AMA Tuesday, hinting at a model new single participant recreation and sharing different nuggets that we have highlighted under.

Answering Redditors' questions, Newell confirmed Valve is engaged on no less than one fully-fledged single participant recreation. Newell additionally talked about the existence of some "unannounced merchandise" on the Supply 2 engine and stated that Valve is designing its personal digital actuality video games.

Probably crucial query that acquired probably the most substantive information about upcoming Valve tasks was floated by Redditor Japasthebass, who requested: "Any probability of a brand new [intellectual property] that takes place within the Half-Life/Portal universe? I really feel like there's numerous story left to be explored there. Thanks!"

Newell, in typical Valve trend, gave the world the tiniest morsel of stories potential: "Yep."

That is a reasonably large "Yep" contemplating Valve hasn't launched a single participant recreation since Portal 2 in 2011 and, beforehand, Half-Life 2: Episode Two in 2007. There hasn't been a single tease about both collection since their final entries, and similar goes for 2009's Left four Lifeless 2 and 2013's Dota 2.

All this lack-of-threes has led followers to perpetuate the joke about how Valve cannot rely to 3 and has given the elusive Half-Life three a near-mythic standing.

For lingering Half-Life three hopefuls, Newell performed into the joke and stated "the number 3 must not be said" in reply to at least one Redditor's query concerning the standing of HL3 or HL2: Episode Three. This does not precisely imply Half-Life three won't ever exist, however it definitely gives the look that it isn't one thing Valve is engaged on for the speedy future.

Newell gave slightly insight into why Valve stays so tight-lipped about their merchandise.

As a result of our choice making is far more conditional than most different corporations. The one factor we cannot do is waste our clients money and time, which suggests we'll cancel or change stuff a lot later in improvement. Monitoring our decisions can be annoying and irritating.

Though there's numerous fog round precisely what is going on on with the brand new single-player recreation within the Half-Life/Portal universe, Newell made it fairly clear that Valve is considering and dealing on VR video games. He stated Valve thinks VR is "fairly necessary as a device for fascinating video games" and elaborated on that thought in another answer:

The large factor proper now's broadening the vary of choices we have now in creating experiences. We expect investing in hardware will give us these choices. The knuckles controller is being designed concurrently we're designing our personal VR video games.

In that very same remark, Newell talked about pursuits in synthetic intelligence and brain-computer interfaces, which sounds loopy. This does not essentially imply that upcoming Valve video games will incorporate both of this stuff, however the curiosity is there.

Though the brand new information from this AMA is not an entire lot to go on, it has generated numerous pleasure for followers of the corporate that usually does not supply any insights in any respect. Plus, now we all know Newell likes his steaks cooked medium rare.