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Valve's Big VR News

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Valve is making headlines in gaming news today for announcing three VR games. During a  media briefing , this morning Valve Co-Founder Gabe Newell confirmed to Eurogamer that the company is making not one but three full VR games. "When I say we're building three games, we're building three full games, not experiments," is what the site reported. Not many other details were given about the games but they will be made using both the Source 2 and Unity. Valve is also working on advancing their VR hardware in order to make better games. Gabe explained that the need for new hardware was felt after Valve added VR support to their older titles: "One of the first things we did is we got Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress running in VR, and it was kind of a novelty. That was purely a developer milestone, but there was absolutely nothing compelling about it, the same way nobody's going to buy a VR system so they can watch movies." He also cited Nintendo for their abil...