At least Steam seems to be doing quite well. Not exactly what most of us want to hear, though by this point anything that isn’t a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive or DOTA 2 player is used to this kind of report on Valve.
You can check out McVicker’s full video on the state of Half-Life below. “If it is, it’s a very small group of people and those individuals will not be seen as value-generating by the higher-ups.” “ Half-Life 3, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 any kind of traditional mouse and keyboard FPS at Valve is not taking place,” McVicker continues. This information would line up with the fact that Valve recently had to delay the Steam Deck due to supply chain issues and being unable to meet demand in time for its original December release date. “Valve is trying to get the Steam Deck out and, like many people have observed, the Steam Deck has been significantly more successful than originally anticipated, so Valve is throwing a lot at it.” The game garnered near-unanimous positive reviews and received critical acclaim, winning over 30 Game of the Year awards.
At the current time, there isn’t a major development team working on anything outside of the few pieces of software that are specifically tailored for hardware right now,” McVicker said on YouTube. Half-Life 2, stylized as HLF-LIFE2, is a science fiction first-person shooter developed and published by Valve Corporation, and released on November 16, 2004, following an extended development period of five years. When it comes to a full-fledge sequel to Half-Life 2, however, things aren’t looking good.
Half-Life: Alyx will support all SteamVR capable headsets, like Valve Index, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows VR, and Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.Half-Life 3 is allegedly not in development at Valve Software.Īccording to Valve News Network content creator Tyler McVicker, some sort of real-time strategy title set in the Half-Life universe for the Steam Deck may be in the works. “ Half-Life: Alyx was designed from the ground up for Virtual Reality and features all of the hallmarks of a classic Half-Life game: world exploration, puzzle solving, visceral combat, and an intricately woven story that connects it all with the characters iconic to the Half-Life universe.” As Alyx, players take the fight to the Combine to save the future of humanity,” Valve said in its initial announcement.
Since several retcons have been made since the release of the first game and technological limitations have changed in the intervening time, a complete official Half-Life series timeline will probably never be made, especially due to the fact it could probably make the writers contradict themselves and limit. “Alyx Vance and her father Eli secretly mount the resistance to the brutal occupation of Earth by a mysterious alien race known as The Combine. A timeline of the Half-Life and Portal universe can be made by gathering known dates. The game is set between the events of the original Half-Life (1998) and Half-Life 2 (2004). The company announced the game in November 2019 with a trailer (below), promising a “full-length game built from the ground up for virtual reality:” Episode One is the first in a series of games that reveal the aftermath of Half-Life 2 and launch a journey beyond City 17. Half-Life: Alyx will launch the week after GDC, an annual game developers event which Valve has regularly attended, and where the company first debuted its VR initiatives way back in 2015. Half-Life 2 has sold over 4 million copies worldwide, and earned over 35 Game of the Year Awards. The most anticipated VR game to date is now just one month and ten days away, and Valve has released some new screenshots to whet your appetite.
Half-Life: Alyx finally has a release date and it’s March 23rd.