Gabe Newell, Valve's chief executive officer, says they'll be releasing new games this year (will Half Life 3 be one?) And that he envies Nintendo's ability to release hardware and software simultaneously.

For a long time, fans of the Half Life saga have been demanding Half Life 3, by Valve, but for a long time the company has put aside developing its own titles, to profit from loot-boxes and third-party titles . Well, Gabe Newell said that during the Artifact presentation, Valve will be releasing games shortly. No data has been given on any title, but he has assured that the company is prepared to also develop hardware and software simultaneously. He has also said that focusing on Steam and Steam VR has been 'an investment in the future'

Newell has said about the games: 'Artifact is the first of many other games that will come from us. So that's good news. Hurrah! Valve is going to start selling games again '

He has also been interviewed in PC Gamer, where he said that they are working on three impressive games for VR, but also, he said in a Reddit post, that they are developing a single player game, like the company's classics, but be careful, saying Half Life on edge, is very rushed and it could be another of his funny little jokes about the game.

Regarding Valve's work on virtual reality and hardware, Newell stressed that: 'the positive part of Vive is that nobody has created a closed system like iOS and this was a great opportunity to develop our experience in hardware design. Five years ago, we didn't have electrical engineers and people who knew about robots. Now there is no project in the field of Hardware in which we do not feel comfortable. We can develop chips if we need to, we can do industrial design and so on. '

"We have always been jealous of companies like Nintendo," says Newell about the Japanese company. 'When Miyamoto sits down to think about the next version of Zelda or Mario, he thinks about what the controller will be like, what kind of graphics they will have and other things. It can present new ideas like motion control because it controls both, 'referring to the fact that Nintendo works the hardware and software simultaneously.

What's more, Newell ends by saying about it: 'you can make the hardware look its best since you are designing the software at the same time, that's a good way to take advantage of it. So, that is something we are jealous of and it is something that you will see us take advantage of later.