Over twenty years have handed since Half-Life 2 was launched, however its developer, Valve, has by no means gotten round to creating Half-Life 3. As a substitute, Valve has been busy turning Steam into the highest market for PC sport gross sales (and making a VR spin-off that gained our GOTY award). However each every so often, rumors about Half-Life 3 flare up, and it is occurring once more proper now.
As famous by Kotaku, Valve’s Steam storefront says that it has two upcoming video games, however solely Impasse is listed, and that title remains to be in early entry. The Recreation Awards are additionally coming quickly, and there nearly at all times appears to be hypothesis that Half-Life 3 will debut there. Some followers have additionally learn a bit an excessive amount of into The Recreation Awards’ submit celebrating at the moment’s twenty seventh anniversary of the unique Half-Life.
For the file, The Recreation Awards makes that very same submit on this date yearly. However that is by no means stopped the hypothesis earlier than. Dataminers have additionally been snooping round in Valve tasks, and declare to have discovered proof of an unannounced shooter codenamed HLX. Extra not too long ago, Valve unveiled Steam Machine and Steam Body, and followers have famous that Half-Life 3 would most likely assist the corporate promote a number of {hardware}.
Close to the start of 2025, Mike Shapiro–who voices G-Man within the Half-Life games–shared a cryptic New Yr’s message that was additionally taken as an indication that Half-Life 3 was close to. However nothing got here of that both.
Probably the most pleasure Half-Life 2 followers had this yr was the demo for the RTX mod that considerably upgraded the sport’s graphics. Perhaps in the future, Valve will lastly resolve that final Half-Life 2 Episode 2 cliffhanger. For now, the newest sport within the franchise was the VR sport Half-Life: Alyx in 2020.