Two decades on from the release of Half-Life 2, Valve has shown off some of what Half-Life 2: Episode 3 could have looked like.
]]>That's right Half-Life fans, you've got a new reason to believe that the long-awaited third entry is definitely, for sure this time, absolutely happening.
]]>Development vet was asked which existing series he'd love to work on.
]]>One of the several iterations of Half-Life 3 in the works at Valve at one point would have been a big departure for the series.
]]>Back in 2017, Firewatch developer Campo Santo unveiled an exciting trailer for In The Valley of Gods - a first-person adventure set in Egypt.
]]>In a recent interview, Valve co-founder Gabe Newell said, "we're way closer to The Matrix than people realize."
]]>Black Mesa, the long-in-development reimagining of Half-Life 1 from indie team Crowbar Collective, will launch on Steam next week.
]]>If there’s one thing Google needs to do if it wants to make a proper splash in the gaming world, it’s this: understand video games and the communities around them. Better still, it needs to convince gamers that it understands video games, rather than just trying to cash in.
]]>Given the recent announcement of Half Life: Alyx, this revamped Half Life mod couldn't have come at a better time.
]]>No longer just a rumour.
]]>Gabe Newell has confirmed that Half-Life 2 and Portal co-writer Eric Wolpaw has returned to Valve.
]]>Gabe Newell has not confirmed Half-Life 3 but he has suggested Valve is going to get back into the business of releasing video games.
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]]>Steam users have suddenly started review-bombing Dota 2.
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]]>Marc Laidlaw, the lead writer on Half-Life 2, has updated his blog with what could only be seen as the entire story of the unreleased Episode 3.
]]>Some Valve employees are purposely dropping Half-Life 3 references to mess with people.
]]>Half-life 3 probably isn't among them, but Valve is working on games - including new single-player titles and VR games.
]]>Half-life 3 does not exist and has never existed. A depressing harvest from the latest crop of rumours.
]]>A new year, and another year of wondering what the hell is going on with Half-Life 3.
]]>You knew this would happen the second you saw the custom award.
]]>Someone has paid a lot of money to troll gamescom attendees.
]]>The recently released Vive benchmark tool contains some references to Half-Life 3 and Left 4 Dead 3, kick-starting another round of speculation.
]]>The future sounds rather bleak.
]]>Half-Life writer Marc Laidlaw has announced his retirement from Valve.
]]>Valve's Chet Faliszeck spoke at EGX today and of course someone asked him about Half-Life 3.
]]>Half-Life 3 will never be a thing, because Gordon Freeman has been burnt to a crisp. This is according to a Mad Max Easter Egg.
]]>Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us director Neil Druckmann has expressed interest in making a Half-Life game.
]]>Half-life might work in virtual reality, or it might not. That's Valve's stance on the matter.
]]>HTC has misspoke when it talked about Half-Life coming to VR headset Vive.
]]>Vive manufacturer HTC said that it hopes to see Valve games, including Half-Life, on the virtual reality headset.
]]>Bored. Overweight. Lonely. This is Gordon Freeman's life according to short fan film Half-Life 3: Unannounced
]]>Some people are very serious about Half-Life 3. Serious enough to start a crowdfunding campaign asking for $150,000. Their aim? To pester Valve developers enough that they finish and release the game.
]]>Half-Life 3 still hasn't been confirmed, but allow this funny tear-down of the Portal series by Honest Trailers to ease your impatience.
]]>Valve doesn't do E3, even when we want it to. One user though is taking matters into their own hands to put an end to all those Half-Life 3 rumours once and for all.
]]>Oh, happy day! Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le's apparently confirmed Valve's working on Half-Life 3. Here's everything we know so far.
]]>Half-Life 3 is being worked on as you read this and Left 4 Dead 3 is looking great, according to Counter-Strike co-creator Minh Le. Hot damn.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>Half-Life 3 is becoming something of a running joke in the industry now, and while we can titter and guffaw about the matter, Valve founder Gabe Newell has set some records straight in a new interview.
]]>Where is Half-Life 3? Brenna thinks she knows: it's a victim of its own success, locked away until such time as it can bring something as exciting as its prequels did.
]]>The Shenmue 3 trademark which popped up this week has turned out to be a hoax, according to CVG. The application was filed with the Office of Harmonization for the Internal Market (OHIM), and after being examined by officials it was discarded. The OHIM discarded the Fallout 4 trademark filed last week, as it did with the Half-Life 3 application in October.
]]>Half-Life 3 was allegedly trademarked in Europe last week, and it's not come to light that the whole thing was a prank.
]]>Half-Life 3 believers will be delighted to learn of an alleged minor security breach outing the existence of two Valve development teams working on the project.
]]>A trademark application for Half-Life 3 has been filed in Europe with the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market.
]]>Half-Life 3 wasn't announced last week, and Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford isn't too pleased. He's shared his thoughts on Valve's new SteamOS and Steam Box announcements in a new interview.
]]>Surgeon Simulator fans have cracked the game's ARG and while the secret hidden within is no Half-Life 3, it's still pretty epic.
]]>The Half-Life 3 rumour mill rumbles on, as the Half-Life voice actor who last week said that the long-awaited sequel was no longer in development has now claimed that he 'misspoke.'
]]>Half-Life 3 isn't in production at Valve right now according to one of the studio's regular voice actors John Patrick Lowrie, who also happens to be married to the voice of GlaDoS Ellen McLain. He has recently revealed his knowledge of all things Half-Life 3 in the comment threads of an old blog.
]]>Surgeon Simulator 2013's Team Fortress 2 DLC was said to contain some kind of Korean Half-Life 3 ARG tease a while ago. I recently asked developer Bossa Studios for some clarity and it turns out the whole thing was bollocks.
]]>Half-Life 3 chatter has resumed recently with people looking far and wide for clues as to when the absent threequel will break cover. Gamers have been racking their brains over a mysterious note found in Surgeon Simulator 2013's Team Fortress 2 DLC, and have somehow linked it to the game.
]]>Half-life 2 received a whopping 3.7GB update on Steam today, leading to much furious speculation that Valve was beginning some sort of campaign leading up to the launch of Half-life 3, as when a bunch of mysterious indie updates turned out to be a Portal ARG. But according to those who've poked around in the game's code, it's just a language pack adding Korean, Portuguese and Thai localisations. Settle, petal.
]]>Half-Life 3 rumours are - at times - tenuous at best, but this one might actually have some legs, even if they're really short and not capable of running very far. According to community-led rumour site ValveTime, an internal mailing list archive typed by an actual human at Valve acknowledges the game's existence by name.
]]>Half-Life 3 is an open world shooter that will launch after 2013, a source close to Valve has allegedly revealed.
]]>Counter-strike: Global Offensive's pre-launch trailer is upon us; Gabe Newell hopes Windows 8 will be better than he fears; and Half-life 3 is neither a game nor an official thing. All this and more through the break.
]]>Valve was rumoured today to be working Source 2. It's time for a serious tech leap over the company's normal increments, says Dave Cook, with one reason being the release of Half-Life 3.
]]>OXM's reporting that Valve community mods are backing the legitimacy of yesterday's leaked Half-Life concepts, which showed Alyx in various states of sombre expression.
]]>Today marks the six-year anniversary of Half Life 2: Episode 3 being announced by Valve - but the elusive game still remains largely an unknown.
]]>Although it surfaced on YouTube last week, someone's now put together a handy website showing off a Half-Life easter egg in Portal 2's recent DLC pack.
]]>Valve has confirmed it has no plans to make product announcements at E3, effectively killing off speculation that Half-Life 3 will finally make its bow.
]]>Valve boss Gabe Newell has said a mixture of both "positive" and "negative" surprises has held up development on Ricochet 2. Except anyone with half a brain would know he doesn't actually mean Ricochet.
]]>This weekend's action to protest Valve's lack of communication over Half-life 3 was something of a blow out.
]]>The Steam group “A Call for Communication”, which currently boasts 29,617 members, will be playing Half-Life 2 simultaneously on Saturday, February 4, from 11:00am until 11:30am PST in order to try and get Valve to announce anything pertaining to Half-Life Episode 3 or Half-Life 3 - if either exists. "Instead of focusing efforts in a negative and disrespectful way, we have decided to gain Valve’s attention by delivering a basic message: Your oldest and longest running fanbase would like better communication," reads the message from the group. Earlier this month, the group had over 10,000 members join its ranks, and now that the number is pushing the 30,000 mark, hopefully Valve will take notice. Thanks, Ripten. [pic]
]]>In an email to a fan site, Valve has denied rampant speculation of a new AR game hidden in a VGAs video.
]]>Half-Life 3 rumors have been swirling the net since Half-Life 2 was released to the console masses in fall 2007 via The Orange Box. Starting last week, the rumor sector lit up to boiling when a Half-Life 3 shirt was sported by a Valve employee at an event, which was either the biggest troll ever or the smarted marketing ploy in the world. Today, a "US-based voice actor" has told OXM they recent recorded lines for "Half Life Episode 3". OXM has asked the actor for further clarification on the matter. This could be another massive troll, a lie, or a slip of the tongue. No matter what the case may be, one thing is for certain: if Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 is in the works, Valve will announce it when it is damned good and ready to do so - unless there's a proof-positive leak beforehand. [pic]
]]>@Ekanaut, a marketing chap at Monday Night Combat dev UberEnt, spotted this at "at a local game developer event worn by a Valve employee." Keep the faith, boys.
]]>Tomorrow is Friday. You should be pleased. Very pleased. Have some shorts to help you celebrate the impending end of your work week.
]]>Milo's alive after all, it seems. Okay, not quite.
]]>Valve's confirmed that the surprise it has planned for E3 is "Portal 2 themed".
]]>A VG247 source has claimed that Valve's "surprise" at E3 will be the unveiling of Source Engine 2.
]]>The dream: gone. Heartbroken. Am cry.
]]>Don't go expecting Mr. Freeman to open his yapper in the next Half-Life installment: Valve boss Gabe Newell says he's perfect as he currently is.
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