Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx, its first flagship VR game

Reported today on The Verge

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Reported today in The Verge.

Valve announces Half-Life: Alyx, its first flagship VR game

Two years and nine months after announcing it would build three (3) full-length VR games - a number that Valve Software has historically never been able to count to before, and one of the most exciting announcements in VR's short history so far - the company has today announced Half-Life: Alyx, the first new game in the acclaimed Half-Life series in well over a decade.

We're excited to unveil Half-Life: Alyx, our flagship VR game, this Thursday at 10am Pacific Time.Can't wait to share it with all of you! pic.twitter.com/BupFCxSrTw

We don't currently have any details beyond the tweet from Valve above, which appears to be the first tweet from a new, Twitter-verified Valve Software account established in June. But clearly, we'll be learning more on Thursday, presumably from this social media account, at 10am PT.

But Alyx almost certainly refers to Half-Life 2 protagonist Gordon Freeman's closest ally Alyx Vance, who was last seen... who am I kidding, I played Half-Life 2: Episode 2 back in 2007 when it first came out, I gave up on ever seeing another game in the series years ago after, and if I'm just looking up the synopsis on Wikipedia I might as well share it with you too? I do remember it being a huge, emotional cliffhanger. Dammit, Valve, I was finally coming to terms with this never happening.

Despite being some of the most influential and critically acclaimed PC games ever made, Valve has famously never finished either of its Half-Life trilogies of games. After Half-Life and Half-Life 2, the company created Half-Life: Episode 1 and Half-Life: Episode 2, but no third game in the series. The closest we've come to knowing anything about where Half-Life was headed was this thinly