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We may have already gotten a glimpse at the new VR hardware that'll let us play those games: Valve showed off a new 'knuckle' controller at the Steam Dev Days developer conference in October, and Newell said Valve was developing at least one VR title alongside that controller in a Reddit AMA. Our sense is that that's going to allow us to actually build much better entertainment experiences for people,' Newell told Gamasutra and other attending publications. ' has had the ability to think about what the input devices & the design of systems should be like while he's trying to design games.

#PORTAL 2 OCULUS RIFT SOFTWARE#

Newell suggested that like The Lab, though, these new games might help show how new VR hardware can push gaming forward, comparing it to how famed Nintendo developer (and father of Mario) Shigeru Miyamoto was able to do that thanks to Nintendo's tendency to create hardware and software at the same time. According to them, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell himself told the publication that they'd be 'full games' instead of the bite-size experiences the company created for The Lab. That's the word from Gamasutra, a respected video game publication reporting from Valve's Seattle offices today.

(VR games with some real meat on their bones are pretty rare, too.) So imagine our surprise to learn that Valve is working on not one, not two, but three new games right now - and that those three are reportedly full-size virtual reality titles. When it does, they're typically uber-popular, critically-acclaimed hits like the names above. Valve, the famous video game developer behind Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, Left 4 Dead and DOTA 2, doesn't make a lot of games these days. Valve showed off new VR controllers at a recent developer conference.

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