Like lots of Valve’s greatest titles, Half-Life: Alyx (2020) is much more moddable than your common recreation, which for PC VR headset house owners means a whole lot of latest modes, missions, and mini-games. Now one of many HLA’s most gifted modders introduced they’ve been snapped up by Valve.

Nate Grove was chargeable for two of the very best HLA campaign-style mods, Incursion and Re-Training—each of that are uncannily Valve-like in pacing, setting… every part.

Grove says in a tweet that “a HUGE contributing issue to my rent was my work on my Workshop objects Re-Training and Incursion. It was a dream for me (and plenty of others) to work at Valve and I believe this highlights the significance of supporting integration of neighborhood work into any recreation. It solely makes the product (and the business) stronger.”

Whereas clearly a succesful modder of among the finest VR video games up to now, Grove isn’t any gaming business neophyte. Now a stage designer and artist at Valve, Grove involves the corporate from Annapurna Interactive, which is understood for publishing award-winning titles corresponding to Outer Wilds, Stray, and What Stays of Edith Finch. Grove additionally created customized belongings for each HLA mods, which might be par for the course for somebody who’s already spent practically a decade as knowledgeable digital artist and environmental designer.

What does this imply for Valve, VR and every part? It’s too early to take a position, because the firm is by nature a black field that solely sometimes sneaks doable hints about upcoming headsets in SteamVR updates. The truth is, Grove says the announcement above was their “final submit right here” on X, previously Twitter.

If it makes you are feeling higher although, you may all the time remark “Half-Life 3 confirmed” within the feedback.