14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has once again tackled the issue of a full-pledged successor to its hugely successful Counter-Strike game, with Gabe Newell saying that the developer needs to complete other projects before it can worry about it.
Valve has a pretty great lineup of popular properties, but by far one of the most successful is Counter-Strike, an online-only multiplayer first-person shooter that started life as a mod for the original Half Life from Valve.
The game has seen several updates since then, with the most recent one being Counter-Strike Source, running, like its name suggests, on Valve's own Source engine.
Since the release of the new game back in 2004, plenty of players have been asking Valve when a full-pledged Counter-Strike 2 will actually appear.
Valve's Gabe Newell was asked the same question recently and he decided to clear a few things up before anyone starts speculating.
"We have to ship Portal 2, and then we have to ship DotA 2, and then we'll worry about Counter-Strike," he said.
When asked if we were actually going to see a sequel to Counter-Strike, Newell replied that he couldn't actually say for sure.
Alongside Counter-Strike 2, Valve fans have been asking the company to deliver Half Life 2: Episode 3, the last installment in the Half Life 2 saga, which has also been in development for quite a long time.
The company, just as it is doing with Counter-Strike 2, hasn't revealed any details about Episode 3 or what other projects it has in development.
All we know is that Valve will soon launch Portal 2 this April, followed by a new batch of downloadable content for its last game, Left 4 Dead 2, and then we can look forward to DotA 2, the full pledged sequel to a massively successful mod for WarCraft III.
After that, it's anybody's guess.