Valve Deadlocked

Valve don’t really need to make videogames. That might sound obvious, especially if you’re not old enough to remember a life with Steam, but the digital shop giant has more than enough business from purchases on what is the default PC games platform. Steam has so many users that Valve doesn’t need to worry about rushing to bring us a new Half-Life, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t working on anything, quite the opposite actually.

It turns out that Valve’s latest game has been going through some rather intensive playtesting. The new game, called Deadlock, is a hero-shooter (think Overwatch), and the game has seen more than ten thousand players try the game in closed sessions, but it’s still in what can only be described as early stages. So it’s not around the corner, but if Valve are happy enough to have so many people have a go playing Deadlock, maybe an open beta could be not too far off.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Returning to the black hole that is Football Manager.