The long awaited third installment to the critically-acclaimed "Half-Life" series by Valve Games is expected to be released soon.This has been deduced following the series of statements said by video game publisher founder Gabe Newell and former employee Minh "Gooseman" Le, who is best known as the creator of "Counter-Strike."
In January of this year, Newell talked to the Washington Post about how he runs Valve more as a large-scale business than a startup. Newell opened up about his company's earlier version to stick with the "Half-Life" series and their decision to venture into multiplayer games, hinting that a "Half-Life 3" release might not be happening anytime soon.
"Then we tried to do Steam. There were a bunch of people internally who thought Steam was a really bad idea, but what they didn't think was that they would tell the people who were working on Steam what to do with their time. They were like "that's what you want to do wit your time, that's fine, but we're going to spend our time working on Half-Life 2. We think you're kind of wasting your time, but it's your time to waste,"" he said.
Valve later on became successful with its online game platform, and he revealed to the Post that the company has set its sights on multiplayer games and Steam in the near future, debunkung rumors of a "Half-Life 3" release this year.
However, Le is singing a different tune. In this podcast on goRGNtv , Le, who formerly worked in Valve, believes that the company is indeed working on the "Half-Life" sequel. It has almost been a decade since "Half-Life" 2 has been released.
Le said in the podcast, "I don't think I can talk about that, to be honest, but I think it's kind of public knowledge that people know that it is being worked on."
In early August, Valve released the alpha version of the "Dota 2" Workshop tools which enables users to create new maps and game modes. To everyone's surprise, the workshop tool itself was using a brand new engine, which is "Source 2" as noted by several modders and map creators on steam in this article by Polygon. The new tools required users to have high specs such as having 64-bit version of Windows and a graphics card that has DirectX 11 compatibility.
Interestingly, the tool's link to "Half-Life" 3 was introduced when Newell himself said in this YouTube video that Valve is just waiting for a proper game to ship the brand-new engine, of which pundits believed could be "Half-Life 3".
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