Valve boss Gabe Newell hosted a Reddit AMA yesterday and he has said that Valve has unannounced games in the works….
Valve boss Gabe Newell has said that the developer is still interested in making single-player games.
The news came via Newell’s Reddit AMA, and was offered up as a simple “yes” in response to the question “Is Valve still working on any fully-fledged single player games?”
The same redditor also asked the single Half-life 3 question Reddit allowed in this AMA, to which Newell replied “The number 3 must not be said”, and made a joke about the unverified, alleged Valve insider who said Half-life 3 has never really existed. So no solid answers there, not that we were expecting them.
As to what Valve actually is working on, there are a few clues elsewhere in the AMA. For example, Newell said Valve is hoping to get everyone working on games onto the Source engine, which it is currently using “as the foundation of some unannounced products”. That means more than one on the go.
In response to a question about the future of the Left 4 Dead series, Newell said Valve chooses which products to focus on based on “technology that we think has traction, a group of people who want to work on that, and one of the game properties that feels like a natural playground for that set of technology and design challenges”. For example, Team Fortress 2 is the result of Valve’s decision to focus on “markets, free to play, and user generated content”.
“Left 4 Dead is a good place for creating shared narratives,” Newell added, enigmatically. That makes it sound like more Left 4 Dead will happen if Valve decides there’s more to explore in the field of shared narratives.
Source: VG247
