Whispers of the project have been doing the rounds for a while now, but last week Valve boss Gabe Newell gave the first confirmation that, yes, his studio had at one point been making a space game with the initials “SoB”.
https://kotaku.com/is-valves-next-big-game-a-space-mmo-update-5951474
Where theories on what that meant ranged from “Stars of Barathrum” to the more obvious “Son of a Bitch”, Newell says in this video the game was code-named “Stars of Blood”, and while describing it as an “internal project”, says it was a “space pirate game”. Oh, he also says it “never saw the light of day”.
Well, except for the concept art you’ll see below, courtesy of former Valve artist Peter König
https://kotaku.com/the-half-eaten-valve-art-of-peter-konig-5881155
I hear the words “space pirate” and I think Privateer. Then I think of Valve making a game like that, hear they’re not making it anymore, and I get really sad.
Valve SOB Project Was Called ‘Stars of Blood’ [Valvetime]
