Source 2 Officially Announced

[UltraJake]

It happened.
https://steamdb.info/blog/source2-announcement/
Among other things. Look forward to March 5th for more information.

 

[Zakarro]

So its using OpenGL eh?

 

[UltraJake]

Also as part of supporting PC gaming, Valve announced that it will be releasing a Vulkan-compatible version of the Source 2 engine. Vulkan is a cross-platform, cross-vendor 3D graphics API that allows game developers to get the most out of the latest graphics hardware, and ensures hardware developers that there is a consistent, low overhead method of taking advantage of products. Vulkan, previously called Next Generation OpenGL, is administered by the Khronos Group, along with other standards such as OpenCL, OpenGL, and WebGL.

So it sounds like standard Source 2 isn't, but there's going to be a version of it that does. I'm not sure how that'll work but I assume the two versions aren't completely separate.