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Valve say they don’t have other VR games in developmentWhat’s next?
What’s next?
Back in 2017, head honcho Gabe Newell revealed Valvewere working on “three full VR games”. We got one of them last night.Half-Life: Alyxis very good, according to Graham’sHalf-Life: Alyx review, but it seems the other two have gone missing. According to Valve designer Greg Coomer, “there aren’t three other titles in development.” We only wanted two, Greg.
The news comes from an interviewwith UploadVR, where Coomer was directly asked whether the other games were on their way.
“All the resources for VR game development later in the cycle, during Alyx’s development, all of those resources got moved onto Alyx,” Coomer explained. “So at the moment, no, there aren’t three other titles in development. But, as for what’s coming, we don’t really have something new or newsworthy for you to say: [no] ‘Once Alyx is out the door here’s what you should expect to have happen.'”
UploadVR do note that elsewhere in their currently-unpublished full interview, another Valve designer, Jason Mitchell, told them he’d worked on a VR project “aside from The Lab andHalf-LifeVR internally”. He didn’t go on to say anything about it though, and it could well have been an early project that got abandoned.
Still, Valve are being uncharacteristically chatty, and our Katharine recently got a chance to sit down with Valve’s Robin Walker and Jim Hughes. You can read that interview in full later this week, but for now let’s zoom in on a clue about what Mitchell might or might not have been talking about. Robin Walker told Katharine:
What’s been left on Valve’s cutting room floor, and what’s next? It seems Valve are still figuring that out.
