Valve Has More Single-Player Games In Development
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GabeN, sorry, Value boss Gabe Newell, has said the company has more games in development that are going to be announced in due course, including single-player titles. In an interview with 1 News, spotted by PC Gamer, Newell spoke about future plans for game as well as the interest from Valve employees to leave current situations and move to New Zealand to sit out the rest of the pandemic.
The interview states that Newell originally thought he'd be in New Zealand for a couple of weeks for a holiday, but that transformed into staying for the better part of a year and he's now looking to live there "for the foreseeable future". Now, other employees are expressing an interesting in following in his footsteps and although there are currently no plans to move Valve operations to NZ, it looks like esports events could be aiming to take place in New Zealand when possible.
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Both Dota 2's The International and CS: GO's Major Championship have of course been delayed because of the pandemic. The former of the two, TI, is known for having the biggest prize pool in esports. Each year Valve directly connects spending on the TI battle pass to the prize pool, so fans of Dota 2 can see the money they've spent in-game going to the best Dota 2 team that year. Right now that prize pool sits at a whopping $40 million. Winning that amount between a team would see the Dota players who win it, become the highest-earning esports players in the world in 2021.
To get both shows back on the road, the tournaments may need to take place in New Zealand eventually. "It's a realistic possibility and it gets more realistic all the time," Newell says, commenting on holding the competitions in NZ.
"I literally could not, if I had to guess when it would be safe to do an in-person tournament anywhere [else] in the world, it would be very hard for me to say that - whereas I think, with a lot of confidence, we'd be able to plan for that in New Zealand," Newell said. "Hopefully, the procedures can be put in place so that becomes feasible - like, you know, this is what the quarantine would look like. As long as Covid keeps mutating, it certainly is increasing the likelihood that we'll be having events here."
Gabe, however, does confirm that there are new games in development at Valve and there should be announcements in due time. "We definitely have games in development that we're going to be announcing - it's fun to ship games," he says. "Half-Life: Alyx was great - to be back doing single-player games, that created a lot of momentum inside of the company to do more of that."
After the success of Half-Life: Alyx and the innovation present in the VR game, we're looking forward to seeing what Valve has up its sleeves.
Topics: Half-Life Alyx, CSGO, News
