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Valve Is Making Three "Full" VR Games

Half-Life and Portal developer is working on a number of virtual reality projects.

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Portal, Half-Life, and Team Fortress developer Valve is working on a number of virtual reality projects.

The company's president, Gabe Newell, confirmed the news to Eurogamer. "Right now we're building three VR games," Newell said, according to the site.

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When asked about Valve's prototype HTC Vive experience The Lab, Newell replied, "When I say we're building three games, we're building three full games, not experiments." Newell revealed the projects are being developed in Valve's own Source 2 engine and Unity.

The Valve founder went on to say his company has working VR builds of some of its back catalog: "One of the first things we did is we got Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress running in VR, and it was kind of a novelty. That was purely a developer milestone, but there was absolutely nothing compelling about it, the same way nobody's going to buy a VR system so they can watch movies."

It remains unclear what the developer's three current VR projects are. It's also unknown what platforms those games will be playable on; Valve partnered with HTC to build the Vive, but Newell has previously said he believes exclusives, especially VR exclusives, are bad for gamers, and risky for developers.

"There are a lot of different forms of risk," the long-time Valve executive said in 2016. "Financial risk, design risk, schedule risk, organizational risk, IP risk, etc. A lot of interesting VR work is being done by new developers. That is a triple-risk whammy--a new developer creating new game mechanics on a new platform."

For more on Valve's dabblings in VR, check out our HTC Vive review.

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