I really can’t imagine some employee walking through the lab with the smartphone in hand, shooting high-quality photos with a firm hand and not create suspects in his/her colleagues. I mean, these photos are a too perfect leak to be true: they are high resolution, they have no blur, they show enough to make people excited but not too much to let people understand what it is happening, there is a clear Valve logo in one picture and a clear date/time of the photos in another one. It may just be someone from Valve that is inside the /r/Vive community.Īt this point, there is another question that every one of us is making: is this a controlled leak by Valve itself? Of course, we don’t know, but my best bet is yes. And in any case, we don’t even know if flock2 knows the people has sent these photos to him. No journalist would be so stupid to reveal his sources: it would harm the source and of course this would mean that no one would ever send secretive news to that journalist anymore because he is someone that can’t be trusted in this sense. So, yes, these are most probably real.įlock2, of course, doesn’t say who has sent these photos to him and while some people argue that he should, as a VR blogger I say that he absolutely should not.
Here you are the four magical photos that have been published (click them to zoom):Īt this point, the first question that has come to people’s mind has been: are these photos real? Do they really show Valve’s lab? Well, one person stated that they can be photoshopped, but IMHO this would be a too complex job and would have anyway little sense to create such a monstrous effort just to troll the little VR community.
The headsets are something we have never seen before and one of them clearly features a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) with the Valve logo on and from that moment on, the hype regarding an upcoming Valve virtual reality HMD has risen. In subsequent comments, 2flock clarified that someone just dropped these photos in his inbox and that of course, he has shared them to the whole VR community.
HALF LIFE 3 2018 MODS
On Saturday, Reddit user 2flock, that is also one of the mods of the /r/Vive subreddit, published a post called “Valve headset? This doesn’t look like Oculus Quest” and in the text puts a link to an Imgur album with 4 photos featuring various half-assembled VR headsets. The source of this story is Reddit: actually, most of the info of this article has been actually written by redditors, and I’m just aggregating in a single place of all the info found in that great community. Nothing contained here has been confirmed by Valve, so read just for the pleasure of reading speculations, that is always fun ? How everything has started Yet that only gives yet another reason why it's worth playing for Half-Life fans.This article is 99% speculations, so everything you will read can be completely true, completely false or something in between. It's baffling that Valve let this game be released on Steam to sully the Half-Life franchise's credibility. Unfortunately, this game makes missteps at almost every turn due to poor design and awful writing, which is to say nothing of the many technical issues. Hunt Down the Freeman is objectively terrible, but if you've burnt through everything else Half-Life related (or just want to play a dumpster fire of a game) then Hunt Down the Freeman is available on Steam.įunded on Indiegogo and released by Royal Rudius Entertainment in 2018 during the Half-Life drought, this game uses Half-Life assets to tell the story of a soldier that wants to kill Half-Life protagonist Gordan Freeman. We started this list with a fan game and are ending with one. the world, but are curious about the single worst Half-Life game. While In the Valley of the Gods was put on hold, Valve confirmed that many Campo Santo developers played a part in creating Half-Life: Alyx, which helps explain why the VR game has such a well-written story.
Its developer, Campo Santo, began work on a new game called In the Valley of the Gods and was eventually acquired by Valve in 2018. While the main plot of the game has the player uncovering a years-old mystery, Firewatch really focuses on the relationship between Henry and Delilah, the park ranger that talks to him over their walkie-talkies.įirewatch is atmospheric, expertly written, and received well-deserved critical acclaim when it first released in 2017. the witty writing and want to check out some of the developers' previous workįirewatch might be considered a "walking simulator" by some, but it tells the gripping story of a man who has retreated to the Shoshone National Refuge in Wyoming as a fire look.