In a statement for IGN representative Valve officially denied the development of a new game in the series Left 4 dead. The company called all rumors of this kind “misinforming.”
“We saw rumors about this over the past few months. A couple of years ago we studied the prospects for creating Left 4 Dead for the next generation of platforms, but now we are definitely not working on anything related to L4D and have not been doing this for years.”
“It’s clear that some people have such fun, come up with misinformation in order to excite the community and news publications. But, unfortunately, at the moment a new L4D is not being created.”
Valve’s comment followed shortly after being published by the chapter HTC China by Alvin Van Graylin tweet with a few slides from his ceremony today Goldenv. Users were interested in a line from a page titled “2020 VR Trends,” which said that “Valve HL Alyx / LFD3 will increase interest [к VR] at consumers and AAA studios “. Graylin later clarified that all the forecasts indicated in the presentation along with the mention of Left 4 Dead 3 are his personal assumption and do not reflect the official opinion of HTC.
Rumors about the new L4D have been surfing the net for about ten years, mainly in the form of leaks and hints extracted from files and the engine’s original year Source engine. Part of this work of digging up links to Left 4 Dead 3 was done Tyler McVicker from the YouTube channel Valve news networkwho released a series of videos with leaked assets and other information about failed projects in the Left 4 Dead series, including the one he said was canceled in 2017.
Recently, McVicker posted a new video with the alleged concept art Left 4 Dead 3, drawn by artist Valve Ted backman in 2012. The same video contains information about the allegedly several major meetings that took place inside Valve shortly after the publication of the first trailer Half-Life: Alyxwho turned the company’s plans for virtual reality, communication with the public and game development in general. Last December, McVicker tweeted that “Left 4 Dead VR exists.”.
Be that as it may, the only validated Valve project at the moment is Half-Life: Alyx is the first new part of the Half-Life series in the last 12 years, the events of which will unfold before Half-Life 2 and focus on the heroine Alix Vance. The game is sharpened specifically for virtual reality helmets and will be available on all compatible VR headsets, including the Valve Index. The release of Half-Life: Alyx will be held in March.
Read more about Half-Life: Alyx here.
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