On November 18, , 12 years after the release of Half-Life 2: Episode Two and the day before the 21st anniversary of the release of the original Half-Life , Valve announced Half-Life: Alyx , a virtual reality video game set in the Half-Life universe, where you play as Alyx Vance in the aftermath of the Combine invasion on earth , before the events of Half-Life 2.
According to lead programmer David Speyrer , in an interview with the video game magazine The Verge released the same day, Half-Life: Alyx is "the next part of the Half-Life story," and says that they recommend playing through Half-Life 2: Episode Two beforehand. Prior to Alyx 's announcement, leaks suggest that Valve abandoned the episodic model [4] and was working on a full sequel entitled Half-Life 3 , [5] but Valve employees consistently refused to comment on the status or nature of the next Half-Life game, much to the displeasure of their fanbase.
Combine Advisors around the Borealis in the first Episode Three concept art image, released in Gordon Freeman face to face with an Advisor in the second Episode Three concept art image, created and released in Combine Advisors around the Borealis in the third and last Episode Three concept art image, released in What follows are the facts that have been revealed by Valve or found by gamers over the years about anything relating to the future of the Half-Life franchise.
In , the domain half-life3. They don't exist in the Episode Two files, where Magnusson's animations are prefixed "mag", suggesting they may be either old discarded animations, or animations set to appear in the next Half-Life game.
Half-Life Wiki Explore. The dev in question quickly copped to it, saying he didn't "expect it to show up everywhere. DanStapleton It's fake. I posted it testing stuff, didn't really expect it to show up everywhere. August 19, John Patrick Lowrie, voice of Odessa Cubbage and husband of Combine Overwatch and GlaDOS voice actor Ellen McLain, caused a stir when he explained that Half-Life 3 wasn't moving forward because of challenges with motion capture—which of course implied that he had some insight into the situation.
He even said that overcoming mo-cap limitations was "one of the things they're working on," meaning that it was—gasp! Except, four days later he took it all back , saying that he doesn't know nothin' about nothin', and nobody can prove otherwise. Jira leaks again! This time there was a new "Half-Life 3 Core" group listed, and the number of people on the project had grown, too. That's practically an official announcement, right?
A trademark filing for Half-Life 3, owned by Valve, appeared in Europe. Trademark filings are a great way to get an early heads-up on new game projects: Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Gwent are two high-profile examples of games that came to light first as a result of a trademark filing. Half-Life 3 trademarked? Half-Life 3 confirmed! Half-Life 3 de-confirmed. Fake filing. Why does this keep happening? Sort of, anyway. More precisely, he said he saw something "that looked kinda like in the Half-Life universe," although he seemed surprised that anyone would be interested in such a thing.
It also wasn't clear when he'd seen the material in question, since he'd left Valve several years prior to the interview. He was also clearly far more interested in Left 4 Dead 3 than anything to do with Half-Life. Thanks for nothing, Minh. Basically, a couple of advertising types decided to crowdfund a harassment campaign to let Valve know that people really want them to make Half-Life 3.
You know, in case that wasn't clear. Software website. Unfortunately, that site is not actually related to Valve Software, but for a few delicious hours or minutes, depending on when you heard about it and how innately suspicious you are of such things we could let ourselves believe that the light was finally shining.
The site is still up and the HL3 logo still there, but the fine print makes it clear that it is "just a joke site. A file named hl3. Valve maintained its usual stony silence, but I think it's worth noting that a year later, Gordon Freeman still hasn't appeared in Dota 2.
That has to mean something. The information provided was deep, detailed, and not at all flashy in the way of most other gag teases, and its veracity was backed, in ways he couldn't or wouldn't make clear, by the forum mod. Eventually, the whole thing just fizzled out, without the usual "lol suckers" flourish at the end, which could be seen as further "proof" that the leak was real. But probably not. The innocuous-sounding SteamVR Performance Test software, an app intended to determine whether or not your rig is up to the strains of virtual reality, is found to contain some Half-Life secrets in its code, including a high-quality 3D model of Dog, the super-strong, ball-fetching robot from Half-Life 2.
Not likely: The software contained material from other Valve games too, including Left 4 Dead and Dota 2, and writer Chet Faliszek was quite clear on the point when asked about it last year.
He said "No. Right there, large as life and side-by-side with Titanfall 2, was a poster proclaiming, plainly and boldly, Half-Life 3! And some fine print underneath, which might have been missed at first because the poster said Half-Life 3!
Except it was actually Half-Life: 3, as in, "Half-Life: 3 editors who played it back then. And that brings us to today, at least until the next joke, leak, hoax, apparent ARG, or off-hand comment.
We give it at least 24 hours before that happens. We only got two of those. That is arguably an unfulfilled promise. Anything else that we might think about as a full game or sequel has never been promised.
Newell lays the blame for some of the persistence of Half-Life 3 rumors at the feet of Valve employees, who he says get a kick out of messing with people—although he's above such things himself, of course. The appearance of an HL3 icon in a photo of a monitor at Valve was, Newell adds, was "news to us.
A true Half-Life 3 could perhaps be even more successful, whether it's created for virtual reality or not. Valve has also been more open than ever with directly talking about the fabled third game in recent years. The documentary The Final Hours of Half-Life: Alyx directly discusses Half-Life 3 , where it's stated that there were several Half-Life game concepts in the works before Alyx was released, including one which was referred to as Half-Life 3.
This new sequel was supposedly in the works but was canceled, due to shortcomings associated with the young Source 2 engine at the time. With Alyx being successful, for some fans, it feels like it's only a matter of time before a new version of Half-Life 3 is in the works. Valve has made a new Half-Life game with Alyx, and there has been some level of interest shown in continuing with the series. This is the most attention that the series has received in years, and understandably, fans are excited to see if more games will come.
Alyx could bode well for the future of Half-Life and it seems as though things could be lining up well for the sought-after third main entry game. Valve is known to be secretive, so there is no telling what could be in the works for the Half-Life series going forward, but fans have a reason to be excited about the possibility of Half-Life 3 again.
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