Summary
- Valve concept artist Evgeniy Evstratiy might have just confirmed that Half-Life 3 is in development.
- He claims that he was in the room where it's being developed, though he didn't see any "actual development", just the office and whiteboards.
- It lines up with recent leaks, which hint at HL3 being in the polishing phase, and with Mike Shapiro teasing "unexpected surprises" for the series this year.
Over the last few years, dataminers have uncovered a string of references to "HLX", which is believed to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life 3. Valve concept artist🔯 Evgeniy Evstratiy might have just confirmed that theory.
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"I don't know if I'm allowed to say this or not,ꦐ" Evstratiy said on (as translated by reliable leaker on r/HalfLife), "butඣ I was in the room where they made Half-Life 3. However, I didn't see the actual development itself; I just saw the office, the computers, the whiteboards."
This is the closest we've come to confirmation from Valve itself, but it's still worth taking Evstratiy's comment with a grain of salt. He's a concept artist for a different Valve game and was only briefly in a room where an unknown project was being worked on, which he believed to be Half-Life 3.
It's unclear if he spoke to anyone on the project to get confirmation, though, as u/kultur noted, if he's conf🎐idently saying that he was in the room where they made Half-Life 3, it's likely that he did.
Half-Life 3 Might Exist, But It Could Be Cancelled
As Evstratiy pointed out, this isn't Valve's first attempt at Half-Life 3. Several iterations of the game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:as well as Half-Life 2: Episode Three, have been cancelled, so there's no guarantee that the studio will release or even finish HLX, ♓given its track record and strict quality control.
But it's also worth noting that, as far as we know, no iteration of Half-Life 3 has ever made it this far along in development (recent Deadlock and Dota 2 updates hint that it🐈's in the polishinꩲg phase). Coupled with G-Man and Barne🐲y Calhoun actor Mike Shapiro teasing "unexpected surprises" for 2025 with the hashtag "HalfLife", and, if reports are to be believed, that it survived the last round of playtests (which historically led to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life: Alyx and Deadlock being delayed), things are looking up for HLX.
Shapiro likely made that video because Valve is confident tha💃t the game will release without cancellation — u/Stannis_Loyalist.
If it does make it through development, then we have a pretty good idea of what to expect thanks to another reliable leaker, Gabe Follower, who claims that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it will "be the end♒ of Gordon'𝓰s adventure", finally tying th✅e knot on the trilogy without another cliffhanger.
Time will tell if he's right and if all these leaks are actually leading somewhere ꦓfor once, but personally,💦 I'm not sure I'll believe Half-Life 3 exists until it's sitting in my library.
Half-Life 3
- Developer(s)
- Valve
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- Valve
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- Franchise
- 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Half-Life
