Half-Life 3 is allegedly not in development at Valve Software.
According 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. When it comes to a full-fledge sequel to Half-Life 2, however, things aren’t looking good.
“No. 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. “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.”
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.
“Half-Life 3, Half-Life 2: Episode 3 [or] any kind of traditional mouse and keyboard FPS at Valve is not taking place,” McVicker continues. “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.”
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. At least Steam seems to be doing quite well.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
