Half-Life 3 playtests start and 2025 reveal “fairly doable,” says Valve insider

Seventeen years after Half-Life 2 Episode 2 was launched, Valve may lastly be giving us a Half-Life 3. In response to one supply, the sport is at present being playtested, and we may see an official reveal in 2025.

Earlier than the discharge of Half-Life: Alyx, many Gordon Freeman followers had given up hope of ever getting a Half-Life 3, and that they’d eternally be left with Half-Life 2: Episode 2’s cliffhanger. However the VR-exclusive Half-Life: Alyx proved that developer Valve hadn’t utterly forgotten about among the finest FPSs of all time. And now, it appears as if Half-Life 3 may actually be taking place.

It’s not that the idea is simply being batted round at Valve HQ, both. In response to a Valve insider, Half-Life 3 is effectively into improvement and actively being playtested. That information comes from YouTuber Gabe Follower, who has been datamining (poking round within the recordsdata of different Valve video games) in an effort to uncover extra about Half-Life 3.

Gabe Follower claims {that a} Valve insider suggested them that Half-Life 3 is being actively playtested, not simply internally however by family and friends of Valve’s groups. And whereas it’s not cast-iron proof, additionally they level out that, in response to Linkedin, Valve has recruited a number of new builders, together with some ex-staffers who’ve labored on Half-Life and Left 4 Lifeless.

Gabe Follower does have a fairly good monitor report in the case of leaks. Via datamining, they revealed particulars of considered one of CounterStrike 2’s main replace, together with the information that weapon keychains could be added to the sport. In addition they leaked particulars of Valve’s on-line shooter Impasse.

There was one other leak earlier this yr, from a voice actor who was connected to a ‘Mission White Sands’, which the actor listed as a Valve manufacturing. The actor shortly eliminated any point out of it from their website, nevertheless it added extra gas to the Half-Life 3 hearth.

There was going to be a Half-Life 2: Episode 3, nevertheless it was in the end cancelled. You will get a style of what may have been, nonetheless, due to Half-Life fan-game Mission Borealis.

For now, we’ll have to attend, fingers crossed, for Valve to lastly reveal Half-Life 3’s existence.  Within the meantime, for tales that do have endings, check out one of the best story video games and one of the best PC video games.

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