Valve is now hiring and teasing for top secret new games

Looks like Valve is actually getting back into game development they recently purchased Campo Santo so it seems they are putting their money with their mouth is.

Anyway Valve has relaunched their website and are looking to hire people for many different positions such as art, writing, game design, audio design & engineering, software engineering, hardware engineering and technical infrastructure.

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After briefly going live last week, Valve’s newly redesigned website is up for real, and it looks like the online presence of a company who intend to make videogames. Not only are the notes we saw last week like “we make games” and the promise of “top secret” new games still there, we’ve now seen a number of game design job listings posted.

Just give us something to add to our list of upcoming PC games, please.

Valve want a level designer capable of “building the game world in 3D” and “using entity scripting to create cinematic sequences of gameplay,” which should alone tell you that they’ve got more up their sleeve than what’s currently been announced. The notion of “cinematic sequences of gameplay” is especially interesting, since it’s something Valve haven’t spent much time with since Portal 2 in 2011.

The company are also hiring writers, including those with experience in “cinematic and narrative video game writing,” as well as those from film, TV, and copy-writing backgrounds. The writer listing is incredibly broad, though combined with the details from the level designer listing it seems that they’re at least experimenting with making narrative games again.

Their search for writers is especially notable since many of their best known wordsmiths, like Chet Faliszek, Jay Pinkerton, and Marc Laidlaw, have all left the company within the past few years. The latter even recently released a document that appears to be the plot of Half-Life 2: Episode 3.

Valve currently have two games officially in production, with Artifact having recently been joined by In the Valley of the Gods with the company’s acquisition of developers Campo Santo. Valve keep saying that they’re making games, and now they’re even publicly hiring people to help in that process.

I do hope Valve actually release something in the next five years, it'd be a shame if they stopped at a card game and a walking sim. Cinematic sequences of gameplay description makes me a bit worried of whatever game they plan on making having too much flash and not enough substance. Anyway what I'd really want from Valve is a single player Teamfortress 2 spin off game. The series has so much lore and is hilarious. Heck they could just use the plot from the comics and I'd eat it up in an instant.

Qualifications:

• Must know how to count to 3

Left 4 Dead 2.5

@uninspiredcup: I wonder how nuts that guy would have went if he saw the Artifact reveal.

And lets all have a good laugh.

valve doesnt make games any more, get out of here with your hopes and dreams

Vr is the new frontier and Valve wants a piece of the pie.

(ricochet 2 or ricochet source would actually be cool)

They have the opportunity to redefine the FPS genre in particular on the scale of Doom and Half Life all over again since it's all new ground.

@blueberry_bandit:

Exactly and that's exactly what I believe Valve is after. They are not making games for the sake of making games, they are doing it so their distribution platform can also have a monopoly in VR space.

Guess that means we should see a game in about... ‘3’ years.

I'll believe it when I see and I'll be sure to not have high hopes.

The history show anything can happen. I mean STALKER 2 announced out of no where especially it was cancelled in 2012, RAGE 2 announced out of nowhere, Shenmue 3 had no chance that announced, FF7 remake etc

sadly Half life 3 will never see the light. but after how STALKER 2 announced. i wont be surprised.

@alan_cartridge: You seem to have intimate knowledge regarding everyone's feelings towards this apparent 'Half-Life 3', Alan. Do you want to talk a little more about how you can read minds?

Oh I see Alan. So you've read every tweet from every gamer and have come to the conclusion that it is a fact that all gamers have huge expectations for Half-Life 3 - as part of an apparently perfect series. I didn't realize you had so much free time to browse the entire registry of Twitter. The sports must be getting very dull.

Alans right tho no matter how good the game would be, it still wouldn't be good enough. it would probably be another duke nukem the game isn't fantastic but its a lot better than everyone made it out to be.

hl3 confirmed!

So Half-Life is on par with a collection of singles that have no relationship between one another except that they were number one singles, and that's why expectations for Half Life 3 are very high. Not because it's a cohesive video game that might represent the time it has come out but because it's on par with Waterloo.

That's Alan on the future success of Half-Life 3.

Thanks Alan.

I'll believe it when I see it happening.

At this point in time, I don't want HL3. They wouldn't be able to match expectations. It would be like having today's Bioware making Baldur's Gate 3 which would be a complete disaster.

(Word of advice, always keep your expectations low, you'll never be disappointed)

@alan_cartridge I don’t know about Waterloo moments. But I certainly had a vindaloo moment this morning after last nights curry!

Half life 3 confirmed!!!!!

If HL3 ever came out, it would be The Last Jedi of video games.

Every critic will 10/10 it while half the gamers hate it and the other half pretend it lived up to the hype.

Half Life:Zero , play as Gordon freeman before the events of hl1 walking around, feeding that cat and fucking up shit in his previous job in VR.

HL 2.1.1.2. :P

I disagree. Half Life 3 should capitalize on VR, like how the other two titles made a step forward for gaming. Most people don't know how good VR is, so Valve could definitely ensure it lives up to and exceeds expectations. As long as the writing is still really good of course.

I am about 80% confident its a VR title and NOT Half Life

So valve wants to make movie games huh

Half Life 3 Bridge Builder obviously.

They are such a tease.

My prediction is Half-Life 3 will come out but won't be a VR game. They'll make a Portal VR-only game.

If next gen VR is strong enough, Valve may try to make a full AAA game for it, perhaps the infamous vaporware HL3 since that alone would force people to buy their VR system if it came out only in VR. Best never to get your hopes up though. I doubt it could even live up to the hype if they did make it at some point. Think Duke Nukem Forever.

They keep teasing new games.

Like they teased 3 episodes.

That's what they do.

when did they tease 3 episodes?

Valve are already making 3 full AAA VR games for this generation. I imagine they'll release next year as they've been in development for at least as far back as 2016.

Half Life 3 VR would be best saved for next gen VR though because the capability of the hardware will be much higher and allow for no-compromise full body avatars and potentially realistic AI that reacts to your body language, eyes, and facial expressions.

After briefly going live last week, Valve’s newly redesigned website is up for real, and it looks like the online presence of a company who intend to make videogames. Not only are the notes we saw last week like “we make games” and the promise of “top secret” new games still there, we’ve now seen a number of game design job listings posted.

"There" is an obvious anagram of Three, Half Life 3 confirmed!

Had a look at the upcoming games list as well, they've missed Mechwarrior 5! Yet still claim to a PC games publication.

New business models in the works

Steam 2.0 confirmed.

i very seriously doubt there will ever be a half life 3

and I base that on the fact that Valve basically says exactly that nearly every year

Will be Team Fortress 3

They will finish Half Life 2 with Episode 3 to build good will, then make Half Life 3 completely in VR to solidify their place with Vive and as a distribution point for VR content via Steam.

@tryit: back in the late 2000s, iirc, they were talking about half life 2 episode 3 a bit and even concept art was leaked or released. Then Valve changed the upcoming material to the full on Half Life 3 as its name and now we have it to enjoy for.....oh....wait...

they have been saying nearly every year for as long as I recall 'nobody at valve is working on a Half Life 3'

is that a hint? or is some video from almost 20 years ago the hint?

Episode 3 after decade would not make sense. Episodes are expansion and it didnot work so valve scrap it.

Personally I just want to play the end of the story. They left episode 2 on one hell of a cliffhanger with Alyx’s dad getting killed with the bad aliens (from Xen I believe) coming and not totally explaining who the **** the Gman is and why he’s always around.

Don’t really care if they incorporate VR or make the game as innovative as the past entries have been. I just want to see the end. But if it never comes I’ll live. I understand all the writers are gone so idk what life there is in a new one.

Honestly who knows. All I know is that the only way they'll fulfill expectations is by going VR with Half Life 3. Whether the game ever becomes a (virtual) reality is another story.