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We learned just how small Valve really is this year, but also how good it is at raking in the cash: It's making more money per employee than Apple (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] DarkFuture -5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Cool story. Where is Half-Life 3?

Hey moneybags Gabe...where is Half-Life 3?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

According to Valve itself Half Life 3 doesn't exist because they are out of ideas, Valve has always been a clan of tech wizards rather than writers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

And they refuse to release a game unless it does something interesting. They don't want to be a game studio, but they will make a game to prove a point:

  • Steam - exists so Valve could easily update its games
  • Half Life: Alyx - drive demand for VR
  • Portal - interesting tech demo of portal mechanic

Their pace of game dev has reduced because the Steam service and hardware ventures are taking top priority. Why make a game when there's much more interesting stuff to do elsewhere that will drive the core business?

[–] Coreidan 0 points 4 days ago

If you think there is ever going to be a HL3 then you are a sucker.