VALVe's New 'Source 2' Game Engine, Has the Low Price of $0

Half-Life 2. Counterstrike: Source. Team Fortress 2. Left 4 Dead. Portal. Besides being Developed by VALVe, What Else do those Games Share ? They All Run on the Company's Source Engine that's been Used since the 1st 2 Released 11 Years Ago. Well, VALVe has a New Engine Coming, Officially and it's Aptly Dubbed, 'Source 2'. VALVe Says that, the Focus of the Engine this Time 'round is "increasing creator productivity". The Idea is to Democratize Game Development and Make it Easier for Amateurs (and Budding Indies) to Use the Toolset and Enable them to, as VALVe Tells it, Participate in the Creation and Development of their Favourite Games. In Fact, the Company Specifically Calls Out the Importance of User-Generated Content, as a Reason for Making the Engine Easier to Work with, which, Undoubtedly Plays into the Millions of Dollars its Paying Out to Steam Workshop Creators. Oh and like Unity and Epic's Unreal Engine, 'Source 2' will be Free for Content Developers. Maybe, just Maybe, VALVe's been Waiting for 'Source 2's' Debut to Announce Half-Life 3​. One Can Hope, right ?