Valve may lastly be engaged on Half-Life 3, in accordance with a Half-Life skilled and a current credit score in an actor’s resume.
Over the weekend, Half-Life followers noticed a (*3*) on a voice actress’s resume that marked, “Venture White Sands (online game),” and speculated that it may very well be referencing a brand new Half-Life sport. That is because of the resume immediately mentioning that it was a venture with Valve, and likewise that “White Sands” is a park and missile range in New Mexico. Protagonist Gordon Freeman’s former employer, Black Mesa, is situated within the New Mexico desert.
Now, Valve skilled Tyler McVicker has created a video explaining why he thinks Venture White Sands may very well be the following absolutely fledged non-VR Half-Life sport. He reported that one other single-player Half-Life sport was in pre-production across the identical time as Half-Life: Alyx, and the codename was HLX.
By way of datamining Valve’s Supply 2 tasks and video games like Dota 2 and Counter-Strike 2, Vickers stated that the character in HLX wears an HEV swimsuit and goes “off-world,” to locations with issues like “xengorillas,” and “pentatanks.” He thinks that these had been truly reduce from Half-Life: Alyx however had been nonetheless being labored on in some capability.
He additionally initially wasn’t positive if HLX was simply an engine characteristic or file format for saves, however because of the current leak from the voice actor, he believes that Venture White Sands is the interior codename of HLX.
Vickers completed the video saying that he thinks the venture is actually Half-Life 3. Again in 2021, Vickers did not assume Half-Life 3 was in improvement but, saying that on the time, the Steam Deck handheld was Valve’s precedence.