A prequel to Half-Life 2

As expected, Valve has now officially announced Half-Life: Alyx, a VR-only game that is a prequel to Half-Life 2.

Starting with Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order

After a brief tease earlier, Electronic Arts has now confirmed it will be coming back to Valve's Steam, starting off on November 15th with Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order. Surprisingly, the publisher has also confirmed that EA Access/Origin Access will be coming to Steam next spring.

But you still might need an Origin account

Electronic Arts has released a rather interesting "steaming" teaser on its Twitter account, which suggests that the earlier rumors of EA coming back to Valve's Steam might just be true.

Valve Index teased 

Valve has moved ahead with plans to launch its own VR headset, called the Valve Index, in May 2019.

To be available on iOS and Android

Valve is seriously expanding into the mobile market by announcing two new apps, the Steam Link and Steam Video, that will bring both game streaming to iOS and Android devices as well as let you check out the Steam library of movies and videos on your mobile device.

But it is still doing ok

VR headset developer Valve has said that it does not really matter if its VR tech turns out to be a complete failure.

Valve has gone them on its list

Valve has named its 100 best-selling Steam games of 2016.

Alliances will help it grow

HTC is planning to spin off its virtual reality subsidiary to help it build alliances and gain cash from potential strategic partners.

Expecting the VR age

Valve is getting all moist about VR taking off and has allocated more than a third of its developers to coming up with games for the gizmo.

At the Game Developers Conference next week

Valve has sent a brief notification that it plans to unveil a series of free virtual reality “experiments", called  The Lab at the upcoming Game Developers Conference, GDC16 that starts next week in San Francisco..