Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Valve is still making Half-Life 3 jokes

Valve chief Gabe Newell has poked some good-natured fun at the long-running saga surrounding the (non-)release of Half-Life 3, his company’s now mythical next big game, in a skit during the Dota 2 International tournament. In the video, Newell appears in a recording booth and delivers some deadpan lines for a Dota announcer pack – these are akin to custom TomTom voice packs, used to acknowledge in-game achievements like killing multiple enemies in quick succession – but he gets stuck when told to say “triple kill.”

“I don’t understand,” pleads Newell, “what’s my motivation?” His exasperated producers, Kaci Aitchison and Jake Kanner, who usually have the unenviable task of interviewing fans inside the arena, are by this point losing the...

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