There have been recent reports that game developer Valve Corporation has already decided on cancelling the third installment to its best-selling zombie shooter game “Left 4 Dead” because the company is reportedly contented with the tons of money being raked in by its other games, namely “Steam,” “Steam Machines,” and “DoTA 2.”
Accordingly, instead of focusing on two upcoming games “Left 4 Dead 3” and the other much-awaited game title “Half-Life 3,” Valve will just do away with the former and focus on the latter and free itself from the intense pressure, notes the Vine Report.
Another reason why Valve appears disinterested in pursuing the development of “Left 4 Dead 3” is because its partner for the two previous games of the series Turtle Rock Studios has decided to go on separate way.
However, until Valve formally makes a statement or announcement to either confirm or deny these latest rounds of rumors, these are merely speculations at this point in time.
Latest reports now indicate that Valve will make an announcement in the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2015 to be held in Los Angeles, California on June 16 to 18 regarding updates to the development of “Left 4 Dead 3” and confirm or dispel rumors that it has already cancelled the highly-anticipated video game.
Contrary to other reports
The reports on the cancellation of “Left 4 Dead 3” actually runs contrary to reports late in May that Valve Corporation is already in the midst of development of the first-person shooter video game “Left 4 Dead 3” as well as “Half-Life 3” reportedly using Source 2 engines for both upcoming video games.
Valve originally developed the Source engine in 2004. It is a 3D video game engine designed in constant incremental updates. Some of the more popular Valve video games that used Source engine are “Counter-Strike,” “Half-Life,” “Half-Life 2,” “Left 4 Dead,” and “Left 4 Dead 2.”
As early as 2012, Valve has been working on the development of a Source 2 engine in an attempt to replace the outdated content authoring tools for Source. But it was only in August last year when Valve announced the release the alpha of “Dota 2” Workshop Tools ported to a new engine.
Valve officially announced the release of the Source 2 engine in March this year, which the company made free to developers. The Source 2 engine is apparently compatible with the new Vulcan Graphics AP.
Logical move
As the two upcoming games from Valve are “Left 4 Dead 3” and “Half-Life 3,” it was already speculated that the game developer will develop them using a Source 2 engine, which is quite logical.
As early as February however, it has already been revealed that in a recent “Half-Life 3” speculation video, the UGC tools in a “DoTA 2” update uncovered the code ‘h3l.’ The update also detailed about the physics testbed program that Valve is implementing into Source 2.
2105 seems like a reasonable date for this announcement.