Valve Denounces HTC Initial Claim Regarding Left 4 Dead 3 Being In Development

Update:

In a statement provided to IGN, Valve denounces the company’s involvement concerning development for a Left 4 Dead game. Valve in the statement declares the initial report derived from the HTC Chinese President to be ‘misinformation.

“We did briefly explore some Left 4 Dead next gen opportunities a few years ago. But we are absolutely not working on anything L4D related now, and haven’t for years.”

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The following o Valve’s left 4 Dead series is still to the brim of patient fans who hope that the series would eventually return with a third installment on the way with cooperative, zombie killing fun. However, the only hopes of there being any sort of follow-up to the decade old series resort to intangible rumors that fail to prove any legitimacy.

This eventually resulted with the initial developer Turtle Rock Studios announcing to be conjuring a successor to the Valve-owned IP with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to help publish the new game, Back 4 Blood. Even so, we still have little information regarding what this new title will look like or even the concept that differentiates it from the predecessors that it strains its influences from.

However, despite fans still in the midst of waiting for that, it seems that Taiwanese electronics firm HTC has disclosed Left 4 Dead 3 to being in development. According to the President of the company’s Chinese division Alvin Wang Graylin posted an image of trends that will take place regarding the virtual reality market which lists Half-Life: Alyx alongside the unannounced third game.

The image provided illustrates to detail Valve’s 2020 plans for the VR landscape, projecting that the company will be utilizing both projects to “drive consumer and AAA studio interest.” Initially, the game’s development was active until about 2017 where the project was shelved in favor for the April-scheduled Half-Life: Alyx. Valve as of recently has been reported to pushing aside projects to better game outcomes as we have seen with the team behind Team Fortress 2 alongside Campo Santo last year.

Although the image provided essentially lists the game only for HTC Vive, it is expected that Left 4 Dead 3 will be heading to Valve Index whenever the title gets properly announced. Assumably, the game will not be titled a third installment, but instead will be labeled as a spin-off like the approach Half-Life title.

Do you plan on picking up this Left 4 Dead game despite it only coming to virtual reality?

Source: HTC China