Valve may build and release its own game platforms if the hardware market fails to meet the developer’s expectations, the company’s president Gabe Newell has said.
Newell said his team is currently facing the conundrum of applying its service model – of constant incremental updates – to physical hardware.
Half-Life and Portal writer Erik Wolpaw has detailed how his team has been using Generative AI for research and development at Valve.
Valve has responded to New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit against the firm, stating it does not believe that lootboxes in its Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, and Team Fortress 2 games unlawfully encourage minors to gamble, adding it was "disappointed" to see the action go ahead despite efforts to "educate" the NYAG about virtual items since "early 2023."
... as MS and Sony is more and more aiming for a 'mainstream audience' with Kinect and Move, I would love to see Valve come out with a system by people who know what the so-called 'core-gamers' want (whoever those core-gamers are), thus just high-end specs and the ability to play them while slouching down with a relaxed controller.
Also, they have shown with Steam that they can do digital distribution better and cheaper than Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo combined!
This would be a good idea, least then you would have another rival core console to rival Sony, one who is open to new idea and would take chances. Maybe since Sony let Valve put Steamworks on Portal 2 they could take that one step futher.....cross platform online
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"as MS and Sony is more and more aiming for a 'mainstream audience' with Kinect and Move,"
I don't think Sony are aiming for the mainstream audience, yeah they have move but they aren't shoving it down peoples throats like MS does with Kinect. Sony and the PS3 are really the last core console left
...good for you? I can go do that as well. It's not particularly hard to put a bunch of computer parts together so that they work.
I can see it happening.
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