Half-Life 3 fever has been operating scorching this week, for causes—and I take advantage of that time period loosely—we laid out right here, which may very usually be described as “it is November and we’re all somewhat bored and stressed.” One small little bit of pseudo-evidence did catch my eye, although: As PC Gamer’s freest man Tyler Wilde famous, “Geoff Keighley posted a 👀 emoji.” What?
The entire thing started innocently sufficient—or no less than so it appeared. Keighley, host of The Recreation Awards, posted a message on X urging his followers to “Try #TheGameAwards nominee web page on Steam to have fun the most effective of the 12 months.” He hooked up a picture of the Steam entrance web page, which—as a result of he was logged in on the time—revealed that he has exactly one recreation in his wishlist.
This didn’t go unnoticed by the ever-sharp Wario64 (by way of GamesRadar), who requested, “What is the one recreation you could have wishlisted?” Dozens of individuals shared their theories, and there have been many and different ideas, however one overarching theme shone by means of:
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Keighley himself actually set issues off, although, together with his googly-eyes emoji response: A flood of hope and cope adopted from individuals who needed to consider, or no less than who needed to get in on the enjoyable.
And this sort of baseless, wild hypothesis is enjoyable—frankly, I feel whipping up the feeding frenzy once in a while is rather more entertaining than Half-Life 3 itself may ever be. Keep in mind Duke Nukem Eternally, children: Generally it is higher to dream of what could possibly be than stay with the fact of what’s.
Nonetheless, there’s some foundation for believing that Keighley has the within observe: He was engaged on a Half-Life: Alyx documentary for a few years earlier than it was revealed to the world, in any case. (Aspect be aware: Half-Life: Alyx was introduced on November 18, 2019.)
Anyway, it took practically a full day however Keighley finally moved to quell the furor, revealing that his one and solely wishlisted recreation is Dadlympics, a 2024 multiplayer recreation “the place dad jokes meet physics-based mayhem.” It was launched in September 2024 and achieved a peak concurrent participant rely of six.
It’s possible you’ll be shocked to study that this didn’t successfully put out the fireplace: The screenshot Keighley shared to show he is not hiding something very clearly signifies that he added it to his wishlist on November 18, the day after the kerfuffle started. What’s he hiding?
(My guess? Not Half-Life 3.)
