Valve Is Working On An Ambitious Unannounced Title

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It seems like the game development team at Valve has a new game in the works. The company is perhaps best known in recent years for Steam which launched in 2002 and has become the largest digital game distribution platform in the world. Initially it only offered games developed by Valve but before long the company began publishing third-party software on the platform. Valve has continued to develop and publish its own games on the platform, most of which have enjoyed long-lasting success and critical acclaim.

Some of Valve's most coveted franchises include Counter-Strike, Dota, Half-Life, and Portal. It is something of a running joke among fans that Valve has some kind of aversion to the number three since as of writing the company has not produced a third mainline game for any of its beloved franchises. That said, Valve seems to have left some references about Left 4 Dead 3 in the game files of the recently launched Counter-Strike 2 limited play test.

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The revelation that Valve has been working on an unannounced project comes thanks to the eagle-eyed Faizan Shaikh, who noticed that two of Valve's employees (one of whom has left the company) mentioned an unannounced project on their LinkedIn profiles with «ambitious, never-before seen gameplay» that contains some kind of puzzles. Fans of Valve's games will immediately think about the Portal franchise for its puzzle-oriented gameplay, but with Valve's legendary aversion to third entries it could easily be something brand new and unprecedented by fans.

It would be advisable for Valve fans to temper their expectations since the company has been known to abandon projects rather than release products that would potentially