A new leak claims that a Half-Life 3 announcement might have been delayed due to the Steam Machine price. According to the insider, Valve is still trying to determine the console’s cost due to skyrocketing hardware component prices, such as RAM.

  • bitjunkie
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    2 months ago

    Similar thing with Orange Box back in the day, too

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      2 months ago

      the orange box wasnt released along side any steam hardware? that i can recall at least.

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        2 months ago

        No, Steam didn’t have their own hardware back then afaik, but it introduced Portal alongside new installments of two extremely popular existing franchises. That’s why I said it was similar instead of the same thing.

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          2 months ago

          Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”

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            2 months ago

            man… I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos… or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros

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              2 months ago

              The comics were pretty good too.

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                2 months ago

                Comics were great too. Wish there was more of those too.

                There was almost a TF2 show on adult swim, too… I dont remember all the details, I think it fell through cause Valve refused to listen to any input the CN execs had?

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            2 months ago

            TFC was one of the most-played mods for HL1, there was plenty of anticipation around it