{"id":47211,"date":"2012-11-12T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T08:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=47211"},"modified":"2012-11-12T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T08:53:47","slug":"valve-working-on-an-entirely-new-game-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/47211-valve-working-on-an-entirely-new-game-engine","title":{"rendered":"Valve working on an &#8220;entirely new&#8221; game engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve boss Gabe Newell has confirmed <a title=\"Valve\u2019s next-gen Source 2 engine in the works?\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42438-valves-next-gen-source-2-engine-in-the-works.html\">rumours that the studio is working on a new engine<\/a>, but-but-but what about Half-Life 3?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what do you wanna know about that&#8217;s not Half-Life 3?&#8221; Newell asked visitors from 4chan who dropped in last week. Okay, so no news about Half-Life 3 then (<em>maybe<\/em>), but-but-but&#8230; what about the new engine, I suppose?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working on new engine stuff for a while,&#8221; he told them. &#8220;We&#8217;ve just been waiting for a game to roll it out with.&#8221; But-but-but, oh nevermind.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if it&#8217;s an &#8220;entirely new&#8221; and not just an update or extension to the existing Source engine that Valve has been using since 2004, Newell said simply &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back to Half-Life 3 then (because obviously), Newell also mentioned that development on Ricochet 2 is ongoing. What&#8217;s that? Well, Ricochet was a Half-Life multiplayer mod created by Valve.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the first time Newell has obliquely referred to the MIA Half-Life sequel as Ricochet 2 &#8211; in April, he talked about the &#8220;game&#8221; in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sevendaycooldown.com\/site\/episode001\/\" target=\"_blank\">SevenDayCooldown podcast<\/a>, saying that &#8220;We end up changing our minds as we\u2019re going through and developing stuff, so as we\u2019re thinking through the giant story arc which is Ricochet 2, you might get to a point where you\u2019re saying something is surprising us in a positive way and something is surprising us in a negative way, and, you know, we\u2019d like to be super-transparent about the future of Ricochet 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, Half-Life 3 is <em>still<\/em> in development. News at 10.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2012\/11\/11\/newell-valve-building-source-2-engine-ricochet-2-is-in-develop\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joystiq<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42438-valves-next-gen-source-2-engine-in-the-works.html\">Valve\u2019s next-gen Source 2 engine in the works?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/47021-steam-for-linux-beta-launches-with-26-games.html\">Steam for Linux beta launches with 26 games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45229-valve-denies-rumours-of-a-korean-acquisition.html\">Valve denies rumours of a Korean acquisition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44515-gabe-newell-pillow-will-watch-you-sleep.html\">Gabe Newell pillow will watch you sleep<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Newell on what&#8217;s happening over at Valve HQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":42445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,981,1343,7670,6110,4908,697],"class_list":["post-47211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-gabe-newell","tag-half-life-3","tag-ricochet-2","tag-source-2","tag-source-engine","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}