Newell om Valves tilgang til spiludvikling

Mange er irriterede over, at der endnu ikke findes nogen former for konkret information om Half-Life 3 eller hvorvidt projektet overhovedet eksisterer.

I et nyt interview med Washington Post, forklarer Newell således hvordan det for firmaet handler om at gå nye veje og innovere, fremfor blot at satse på det sikre.

I just think that we're more confident now and we've got that experience in lots of things. When we started out we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, but we collectively said let's try to make multi-player games even though there's never been a commercial successful multi-player game.

Then we tried to do Steam. There were a bunch of people internally who thought Steam was a really bad idea, but what they didn't think was that they would tell the people who were working on Steam what to do with their time. They were like "that's what you want to do wit your time, that's fine, but we're going to spend our time working on Half-Life 2. We think you're kind of wasting your time, but it's your time to waste." "

Man kan ikke ligefrem påstå at der er noget i udtalelserne der lyder lovende i forhold til et potentielt Half-Life 3, men ikke desto mindre er det en beundringsværdig måde at drive så stort et firma på.