At this year’s E3, you can officially leave any Valve Software product announcements firmly off your pre-show bingo cards. Valve rep Doug Lombardi told Joystiq this morning, “We have no product announcements plotted for this year’s show,” confirming a reported email exchange between a ValveTime.net forum member and Valve Software head Gabe Newell.

In the purported exchange, which Valve declined to authenticate, Newell told the forum member, “We are not announcing anything at E3. Really.” The email goes further than that, adding, “We are not announcing Half-Life 3 or Portal 3 or Left 4 Dead 3. We are going to be showing stuff everyone already knows about (CS:Go [Counterstrike: Global Offensive], Dota 2, 10′ UI [Steam 'Huge Picture Mode']).”

So, while it looks like Valve is attending E3, don’t get your hopes too high for any software or hardware announcements. The other possibility, of course, is that we’re being lied to (it wouldn’t be the first such reason before to E3). We’re giving Valve the benefit of the doubt.

Valve not plotting any product announcements for E3 2012, will be attending originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 02 May 2012 15:30:00 EST. Please see our stipulations for use of feeds.

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