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Valve, of Half-Life and Portal, are making 3 full VR games

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So says Gabe Newell, Valve co-founder and head honcho.
Valve showed off new VR controllers at a recent developer conference.
Valve, the famous video game developer behind Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and DOTA 2, doesn’t make a lot of games these days. When it does, they’re typically uber-popular, critically-acclaimed hits like the names above.
That’s the word from Gamasutra , a respected video game publication reporting from Valve’s Seattle offices today. According to them, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell himself told the publication that they’d be „full games“ instead of the bite-size experiences the company created for The Lab.
Newell suggested that like The Lab, though, these new games might help show how new VR hardware can push gaming forward, comparing it to how famed Nintendo developer (and father of Mario) Shigeru Miyamoto was able to do that by developing software and hardware at the same time.

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